Whoa, there! 14 year olds are children, because despite the state of their physical development, they are still mentally children. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference whether they are "developed" or not. That's the whole point of establishing an "age of consent".
I think you wandered off the path and your point got woefully lost.
Apparently, my point got woefully lost.
At five I wasn't interested in sex.
Nope.
Not a bit.
By 14 that had changed, but by 14 I was working heavy construction on a seawall crew between stints on a pile driver as a deckhand, worked on my grandfather's farm (and had for years) in the tobacco fields and baling hay, had been driving tractor for years, and had just joined the Volunteer Fire Department. I had my own boat (skiff) and a commercial fishing license. This was within a handful of years of the time of these allegations.
Legally, 14 year-olds are still not adults, but when we think of "children" the tendency is to envision grade schoolers, not nubile adolescents. We even call them "teenagers" instead of "children", and they are commonly not hesitant to remind adults of that change in status, even though the legal significance is moot.
I'd say the difference between prepubescent and 14 is HUGE. Now, that doesn't mean adults should prey on 14 year olds, but there is no proof that even happened in Moore's case, and there are folks who have stepped forward and pointed out serious problems with the narrative that woman (now) has told of events that she alleged 40 years ago.
But in desperation, as the election approaches and the narrative disintegrates too soon for those who would scuttle Moore, they are doing (again) what I predicted when this all started: They are doubling down on the rhetoric, because they are plumb out of credible complainants. They even listed people who were not complainants as complainants (who claimed there was no sexual behaviour involved) to pad out the numbers.
The Gloria Allred traveling show and hit posse has run out of poo to throw, so the media have to carry the ball.