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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: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Thursday March 08 2018, @03:11AM (3 children)
Honestly, these days it feels like we're over-schooling and under-educating.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 08 2018, @03:42AM (2 children)
That ain't no shit. I'd highly recommend anyone not planning on being a doctor, chemist, engineer, or the like drop out of school as soon as they're legally allowed to, get their GED just for the sake of having it, and either get a job or go to trade school. They're not going to learn anything useful in highschool past their freshman year that they can't learn online at their convenience.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:00AM (1 child)
Forget the GED and call yourself an autodidact, since that's what you'd be anyway. The standards of our school system are pathetic to the point where a trained monkey could almost get a GED and high school diploma, and they always were pathetic. There were no 'good old days' for our schooling system. As such, anyone requiring such worthless pieces of paper isn't worth working for in the first place.
(Score: 4, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 08 2018, @12:03PM
Depends on your perspective. We used to teach Greek and Latin in public schools. Today we're lucky if they can speak English passably and know better than to eat laundry detergent.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.