What do you make of this claim from a former rosh yeshiva Yaron Yadan, whom was Charedi and became chiloni? Yaron Yadan was a rosh yeshiva whom taught the Talmud for years, and eventually left the Charedi community altogether because he could no longer teach the following. On his website, he claims the following (the language which I have sanitized here because of how vile Yaron Yadan claims that the original language is):
“It is written in the Mishnah: “A girl of three years and a day…[redacted here because what’s in the passage is vile and not appropriate for Facebook]. If she is less than that (less than three years and a day), it is as one who sticks a finger into an eye” (Niddah 5:4). The sages of the Talmud explain the Mishnah’s simile “as one who sticks a finger into an eye”: Just as an eye, if poked by a finger…so is it when a man [harms a child]. This is why it is not called [crime of the most-egregious nature] (Niddah 45a).
“Thus did Maimonides rule ([specific citation; original language from Maimonides downplays the harm]): One who [harms] a girl younger than three is exempt from punishment, even if he [committed a crime against] his own daughter, and one who [harms] a boy of under nine is exempt from punishment, even if she [committed a crime against] her own son, and [a man or a woman who commits a crime againsr] a minor boy under the age of nine is exempt from the punishment written in the Torah…[per] (Leviticus 20:13).
“From what we have brought above, you can learn that Chazal and the religious arbiters treated [certain crimes against] a minor as a meaningless act. They completely ignore the psychological and emotional impact upon a boy or a girl who have undergone an irreversible trauma which can warp their entire lives.”
This is obviously not light stuff, and there is a reason that Karaites and other Non-Rabbinic groups reject the Talmud.
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