that's a tortured reading of kethuboth 11b from what i read. the section seems to be about setting technical virginities and the resulting prices. in the same section it states that if an adult woman has sex with a minor boy, that's considered the same as her breaking her maidenhood with a wooden dildo, as it's not "real" intercourse and she still counts as a virgin so you have to pay full price. the problem is using this to claim that the jews are saying molesting children isn't a crime. in the context of the time it was difficult to get married if you were considered spoiled, and the section mentions marriage fees many times, indicating that the entirety of the section is about this problem of whether a woman can be married depending on what's happened to her previously; such as being a captive or having been molested in this case; and what that means in terms of bride price. meaning the passage is really more along the lines of, > if you marry a girl who got molested when she was little you do still have to pay the full bride price of 200 dinar because she is considered a virgin by our ruling. perhaps the most jewish idea here is that you should get a discount on the bride price for marrying someone who got molested as a child or was forcibly converted to judaism when she was young instead of being born that way, but it's quite different from saying jews have full license to rape whatever children they like, or even that they're not compassionate on the issue. would it be compassionate of them to tell such women that they're spoiled goods and don't command a full bride price anymore? i'll look into the other two but so far this is matching the pattern i've noticed of these quotes being like the atheist's bible; quoting things out of context to make them sound terrible. but if you go read the source material it never says what the infographic said. i really hate having to read the talmud though, it is the most unnecessarily convoluted document ever.
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