Posted on 03/06/2018 11:06:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
France plans to fix the legal age of sexual consent as 15, meaning sex with someone younger than that would be considered rape.
Equality Minister Marlène Schiappa welcomed the move, which follows advice from doctors and legal experts.
Currently, prosecutors must prove sex with someone under 15 was forced in order to bring rape charges.
The change comes amid uproar over two recent cases of men accused of having sex with 11-year-old girls.
Under the existing legislation, if there is no violence or coercion proved, offenders may only be charged with sexual abuse of a minor and not rape. This has a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (£66,000; $87,000).
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It had been discussing whether to set the age as 13 or 15, which is what groups fighting violence against children had campaigned for.
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A return to the time of the Middle Ages.....or is it that idiots keep lowering the age for when a child is considered an adult threshold?
Surprised what with the huge muzzy population they didn’t drop the age to 9 to save face with Mohammed.
They ought to be raising it.
Look for this to be on the DNC platform in 2020.
Muzzies happy!
I do not get how setting the age of consent to 13 or 15 is help for children? Seems like it’s more help to adults who wish to have sex with them.
Consent is consent. If a 15 year old can consent, then they should be able to consent with anyone. How is that a fix?
I know they try to say that these kids can’t have sex with older people. They why call it an age of consent?
This is just plain dumb.
As for the guys who wanted to have sex with an eleven year old, take them out in a back ally and do society a favor.
I do not believe God will be pleased. Lord, smite them.
They are raising. Currently there is no age. So essentially they are raising it from 0 to 15.
For those who didn’t read the article, this is an improvement, as it allows for “statutory rape” of children under 15 to be a thing. As the article mentioned, under the previous law, sex with a child was not “rape” unless there was physical force used.
Why?
All designed to empower gays and make it harder to convict the deviants.Its up to fathers, brothers and male relatives to protect their own young.
Please read the article. France previously had *no* age below which consent is presumed to be absent. This is an improvement over existing law.
I know they try to say that these kids can’t have sex with older people. They why call it an age of consent?
I am not sure what you are trying to say. In the United States there are age of consent laws, but it varies by state, I think from 16 to 18. Do you think there should be no age of consent?
That should help make the Mooo - SLUUUMS happy.
If you read the article, you can see that the point of the law is to make it easier to convict pedophiles - the victim no longer has to prove that they didn’t consent.
Exectly. From a U.S. perspective it’s an improvement. Over the least twenty years, I’ve heard trial balloons that some on the left wanted to lower age of consent. I think progressives were the ones who originally pushed for age of consent and older age of consent laws.
The collapse of society accelerating.
This is a disease, the liberalization of the Human species.
1) Laws against smoking cigarettes everywhere while we legalize the use of marijuana as a recreational drug.
2) Late term abortion is legal but we outlaw capital punishment
3) Remove all references to Religion from publicly funded “spaces” but add special worship contingencies to suit Muslims.
Let me guess — an exception is made for Moslems, right?
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