The current legal state in France is a pedophile’s dream. The present 5-year maximum sentence for sexual conduct with a child under 15 may seem like a deterrent for most law-abiding people, but it’s not much to a pedophile. He knows that to be charged with the actual rape of a child, with the long sentence, the prosecution will have to prove that the child didn’t consent.
And where it becomes really a pedophile’s dream is in not establishing straight-out that children can in no way consent, meaning things have been made very, very murky. They’re murky today between adults. Many children and their parents might be reluctant to even try to go to prosecutors since a pedophile would get at most 5 years, or the child would be put through the third-degree if the pedophile is actually raped, since prosecutors have to prove that an 11-year-old “didn’t want it,” like they failed to do in that one case.
This was an eye-opening, informative article which sheds some light on the claims by some of Roman Polanski’s defenders that people in “Europe” look at “adult-child sex” differently than Americans do.
“The current legal state in France is a pedophile’s dream. The present 5-year maximum sentence for sexual conduct with a child under 15 may seem like a deterrent for most law-abiding people, but it’s not much to a pedophile.”