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To: Crucial
Didn’t Turing molest young boys?

I've never seen any evidence for that, and I have studied the man pretty extensively. He's one of my childhood heroes - although I do not endorse his personal sexual choices (and was unaware of them when I was a child and learning about him), he was critical in keeping the world free.

However, the relationship for which he was prosecuted for indecency was with a 19-year-old - a minor in 1952 - and it is quite likely Turing would have not been prosecuted if his partner had been 21 - by the 1950s, it really was rare for the CPS to proceed in 'consenting adults' cases - he clearly had no respect for the law.

19 posted on 04/16/2016 11:25:42 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

The age of (hetrosexual) consent in the UK has been 16 since 1885, having been as low as 12 10 years earlier.


24 posted on 04/17/2016 5:29:42 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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