More Idiot Jurors In Pahrump

What the hell is in the water in Pahrump that makes juries do stupid things?  In the latest case of jury stupidity, a jury found a pervert innocent of fondling a 16 year old girl in the vaginal area, even though she was underage and didn't want to be touched and he admitted he did it.
From the Pahrump Valley Times:
A jury found one man not guilty of inappropriately touching a 16-year-old girl, during an incident last year, after a brief two-day trial. (A two day trial is brief?)
Marco Antonio Soto was on trial Dec. 20 and Dec. 21 for a single count of open and gross lewdness after he was alleged to have rubbed the teenager’s crotch for 20 to 30 seconds one afternoon over the summer while the two were sitting on a couch at his girlfriend’s home. Both Soto and the victim were living with Soto’s girlfriend at the time of the incident.
According to the declaration of arrest in the case, on Sept. 2 Nye County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in the 2300 block of McMurray Street for a report of open and gross lewdness.
When they arrived, the victim in the case told police that her guardian’s boyfriend had rubbed her vaginal area, without consent, approximately one month prior.
Police then asked Soto about the allegation, to which he initially replied he never touched the girl. Later, during another interview with a detective at the sheriff’s office, Soto admitted to rubbing the girl on the outside of her clothes under a blanket.
He was subsequently arrested on a charge of open and gross lewdness and on Sept. 11 charged by the district attorney’s office.
The defense argued that while Soto had admitted to the act during an interview with police, he should be found not guilty of the crime since there was the possible appearance, or at least mistaken appearance, of consent to the act when the girl didn’t immediately push his hand away or tell him to stop.
Prosecutor Ross Armstrong, however, argued that it was clear there was never consent for Soto to touch the teenager and that his actions were clearly unwanted as the girl did eventually push his hand away and left the room. http://pvtimes.com/news/jury-finds-man-not-guilty-in-touching-case/...
She said on the day of the incident she had sat down on the other end of the couch where Soto was sitting, playing video games. Soon after, Soto reached across the couch and placed his hand in her lap.
After what both she and Soto believe was 20 or 30 seconds of him rubbing her inappropriately she pushed his hand away, got up and went to another room to play a board game with her brother.
When asked why she waited approximately a month before telling anyone what had happened between her and Soto, the girl answered that she was uncomfortable talking about what had occurred.
“I wasn’t comfortable telling anybody about that,” she said....
Though Soto’s attorney, Harry Kuehn, submitted to the court that what his client did was morally wrong, he painted a picture for jurors through testimony from the victim’s guardian and character witnesses, that the girl may have only brought this incident to the attention of authorities as unwanted touching because her guardian wouldn’t let her go shopping....
Kuehn argued that while his client had admitted to touching the girl, he did not commit the offense of open and gross lewdness as the girl never asked for him to stop, at least giving the appearance that she was consenting to his touching.
“A 16-year-old person can consent to sexual touching. Morally, maybe as I indicated earlier it should be 25 years of age, but at 16 in Nevada you have that discretion …
How many times each year, do kids get sexually abused and they don't report it because of fear, shame or face intimidation and retaliation from the abuser or the family because they want to keep it within the family?  It's also possible that the girl was completely shocked when the incident of perversion occurred.
It also seems to me that the prosecutors were out lawyered by the defense attorney and the jury bought it.
But the question the jury should asked themselves, that if the girl consented to be touched in the vagina, why did she have this come to trial and testify in open court and put herself through the humiliation of the trial?
I know there are some sane people in Pahrump, but obviously, none of them are allowed on juries (or allowed to write for the newspaper.)