Many years ago in the early 80s( I was about 24/25ish) kids use to knock on our door and ask the wife if I could come out to play football with them in the park... It all stemmed from me just kicking the ball back to them whilst walking the dog...sometimes I'd go and have a kick around with them for half a hour then come home and me and the wife at the time would laugh about it...all harmless fun ...you couldn't nor would you dare to do that in today's environment...you'd be classed as a pervert by many...
Think it's more problematic that this kid is having her entire life scrutinised by the media. Maybe she shouldn't be having conversations about boys with a much older bloke, but that should be something for her parents to discuss with her. Having every shitty hack poaching clicks off your personal life can't be fun.