History Main / CorruptionByAMinor

* In Maryrose Wood’s ''Why I Let My Hair Grow Out,'' the fifteen-year-old protagonist tries to seduce a man in his twenties, who suddenly becomes very opposed to deflowering her as soon as he discovers she’s a minor (i.e., when she accidentally lets her age slip while she’s ''undressing in front of him''). [[LetsWaitAWhile His insistence that they wait a few years]] doesn’t stop her repeated attempts throughout that book and the next to tempt him into sleeping with her.

* In 1950s England, there was the notorious Bentley case (portrayed in the movie ''Let Him Have It''), where 19-year-old Derek Bentley (who however had a mental age of about 11) and his 16-year-old accomplice Chris Craig were interrupted by police in attempting to burgle a warehouse. Craig shot and killed a policeman (it has also been claimed that PC Miles was actually killed by a [[MurphysBullet stray bullet]] from a police gun), and both Bentley and Craig were found guilty of this; Bentley was hanged because Craig was too young. This case is said to have helped lead to the abolition of capital punishment in Britain.

* In 1950s England, there was the notorious Bentley case (portrayed in the movie ''Let Him Have It''), where 19-year-old Derek Bentley (who however had a mental age of about 11) and his 16-year-old accomplice Chris Craig were interrupted by police in attempting to burgle a warehouse. Craig shot and killed a policeman (it has also been claimed that PC Miles was actually killed by a stray bullet from a police gun), and both Bentley and Craig were found guilty of this; Bentley was hanged because Craig was too young. This case is said to have helped lead to the abolition of capital punishment in Britain.

Under US law (and other countries as well), there is a crime known as CorruptionOfAMinor, in which adults coerce or help children to commit crimes.

This is the [[InvertedTrope inverse]].

* The movie ''Film/MatchstickMen'' does this, though [[spoiler:the girl isn't actually a minor.]]

* Dewey from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' does this every so often.

* In a strange reverse, Kotaro has slowly been turning [[ComedicShotacon Ayaka]] towards hating kids.

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* In the original ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' book, the pedophile protagonist Humbert Humbert claimed he was seduced by the titular girl, who had known about sex well before she met him. A not uncommon reading of the story has the reader believe Humbert's claim, even though [[spoiler:he's an UnreliableNarrator who was just trying to justify his molestation of the girl in question]].

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** In a strange reverse, Kotaro has slowly been turning [[ComedicShotacon Ayaka]] towards hating kids.

* [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] got her start at an early age in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'' by convincing/seducing Terry Fawles into [[spoiler:conspiring with her to fake a kidnapping.]]

* Negi Springfield of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has, [[ChasteHero unintentionally]], [[ChickMagnet turned about a third of his class into Shotacons]].

* Rokudo Mukuro in ''Manga/Reborn2004'', to Lancia.

* In ''Film/LawnDogs'', 10-year-old Devon and 21-year-old Trent become friends... at ''Devon's'' insistence. Devon later convinces Trent to accompany her while they steal chickens from a barn, and convinces him to moon her father and a police officer.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a twelve-year-old boy convinced his... siblings [[spoiler:all four were conceived from the same egg via in vitro fertilization, but to different families and at different times]], who were in their thirties, to murder his father [[spoiler:the doctor who'd re-used the embryos without the biological mother's consent]]. Though the adults each had criminal records of their own and didn't take much convincing.

* Somewhere in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' continuity, the youngest apprentice of the scientist Ansem the Wise, the 8-year-old Ienzo, was the one who convinced him to build a laboratory designed specifically to study darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty involved in the experiments. The result was the Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of nothingness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it. In fairness, ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' reveals that [[spoiler:at the very least, Ienzo wasn't complicit in banishing Ansem to the Realm of Darkness; the other apprentices did the deed then lied about it to Ienzo, telling him that Ansem had gone mad and exiled himself. As a child, he never questioned it]].
* In the second ''VideoGame/ClockTower'' game, [[spoiler:Edward uses Kay's repressed pedophiliac urges to make her do his dirty work.]]

* Not surprisingly, many LoliconAndShotacon hentai have a plot along these lines.

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* Negi Springfield of ''Manga/{{Negima}}'' has, [[ChasteHero unintentionally]], [[ChickMagnet turned about a third of his class into Shotacons]].

* [[BigBad Johann Liebert]] in ''{{Anime/Monster}}'' is a master at getting people to kill themselves and do horrible things.
* Rokudo Mukuro in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', to Lancia.

* In Maryrose Wood’s ''Why I Let My Hair Grow Out,'' the fifteen-year-old protagonist tries to seduce a man in his twenties, who suddenly becomes very opposed to deflowering her as soon as he discovers she’s a minor (i.e., when she accidentally lets her age slip while she’s ''undressing in front of him''). [[CelibateHero His insistence that they wait a few years]] doesn’t stop her repeated attempts throughout that book and the next to tempt him into sleeping with her.

* Somewhere in the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' continuity, the youngest apprentice of the scientist Ansem the Wise, the 8-year-old Ienzo, was the one who convinced him to build a laboratory designed specifically to study darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty involved in the experiments. The result was the Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of nothingness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it. In fairness, ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' reveals that [[spoiler:at the very least, Ienzo wasn't complicit in banishing Ansem to the Realm of Darkness; the other apprentices did the deed then lied about it to Ienzo, telling him that Ansem had gone mad and exiled himself. As a child, he never questioned it]].

* Somewhere in the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' continuity, the youngest apprentice of the scientist Ansem the Wise, the 8-year-old Ienzo, was the one who convinced him to build a laboratory designed specifically to study darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty involved in the experiments. The result was the Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of nothingness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it. In fairness, ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' reveals that [[spoiler:Ienzo himself wasn't complicit in that part; the other apprentices did the deed then lied about it to Ienzo, telling him that Ansem had gone mad and exiled himself. As a child, he never questioned it]].

* In one episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a twelve-year-old boy convinced his... siblings [[spoiler: all four were conceived from the same egg via in vitro fertilization, but to different families and at different times]], who were in their thirties, to murder his father [[spoiler: the doctor who'd re-used the embryos without the biological mother's consent]]. Though the adults each had criminal records of their own and didn't take much convincing.

* [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] got her start at an early age in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'' by convincing/seducing Terry Fawles into [[spoiler: conspiring with her to fake a kidnapping.]]
* Somewhere in the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' continuity, the youngest apprentice of the scientist Ansem the Wise, the 8-year-old Ienzo, was the one who convinced him to build a laboratory designed specifically to study darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty involved in the experiments. For the record, the result was Ienzo and the other Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of nothingness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it.

* On ''Series/{{Shameless}}'' (US) Carl convinces a female camp counselor to expose her breasts to the other boys in the camp. It is a camp for kids dying of cancer so it is not hard for him to play on her sympathy and convince her to give the boys their 'wish'.

** Would you believe the sexual version was also a [[ShowWithinAShow story within a story]] in a Creator/PiersAnthony book, ''Firefly''? ([[AuthorAppeal Okay, maybe you would]].)

* Somewhere in the ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' continuity, scientist Ansem the Wise's youngest apprentice (8-year-old Ienzo) was the one who convinced him to [[spoiler:build a laboratory designed specifically for studies of Darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty. For the record, the result was Ienzo and the other Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of nothingness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it.]]