I called the police on an older man engaging in inappropriate behavior with a child

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I was at a Starbucks and I saw a guy around my age holding hands with a REALLY young girl. "She's probably just his daughter" I thought to myself, but something about they were standing was off-putting, so after I got my latte I sat at at a table near them, just to keep an eye on them. They kept touching each other, more intimately than a father would usually touch his daughter. At this point it was clear it is not a father-daughter relationship. Then they started kissing each other on the lips and I thought "This is not ok."

I stepped outside, called 911 and told them my location and that there is a man inside who is kissing and inappropriately touching a child. I am going to testify before a grand jury on Tuesday. Turns out the guy was 34 and the girl is only 16, young enough to be his daughter. Luckily, in my state the age of consent is 18, but the horrifying part is that in some states, the age of consent is 16, and this pedophile would have been able to get away with it. There really needs to be a law that consent cannot be given if there is a large enough age disparity, even if they are above the age of consent. I remember when I was a 16 year old girl and I definitely was not ready to consent to a relationship with an older man.