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France to set legal age of sexual consent as 15
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).
[...] The government is to approve the new age limit as part of a package of other laws against sexual violence and harassment in the coming weeks. 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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(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday March 08 2018, @03:08AM
What they have now is called consent. They ask, was there consent? Can this person consent? And maybe they're too young to consent, you know? And the courts decide on that one by one, there isn't a certain age for that. So many places, there's a certain age and it's the same for everybody in that Country or that state. Not in France. Alabama, it's 16 in Alabama. And maybe, probably, the folks in France want to try something different. Where it's ALWAYS a problem if she's under 15 and you're over 15.