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You'll note that I quoted a bit more. That was for a reason: the part I took issue with was the "it's not because of..."
Perhaps, but it might not be. Those 13-year-olds are mixed in with 19-year-olds, whose circumstances are likely far different.
You keep restating this as if anyone disagreed with you. I explicitly agreed in the comment to which you're replying.
And you're citing data as if it were much more applicable than it is. Data for 12-year-olds is likely worse, no one is denying that, but it's still a weak argument to cite data that doesn't include the age group in question, does include age groups with far different circumstances, and is from a time when the two phenomena in question (violent sex crimes and teenage pregnancy) were two and four times higher respectively.