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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @09:24AM (7 children)
A hormone level/balance test should not be that intrusive.
Sample some blood, see how the levels and balance of various hormones hold up towards the averages of a child (no sexual hormones), a teen (pretty much messed up :-) ) and an adult (balanced hormones within a certain bandwidth).
And it will provide a nice way of finding the (future) predators/wackos with their messed up hormones that are causing most of the problems right now anyway...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 08 2018, @03:02PM (5 children)
Uh-huh - yeah - I'm with you on that! It's not invasive at all to take a blood sample! Nope, not even a little bit! Bleed that bitch dry! We've got to decide whether she is old enough to rape, or if our Good Old Boy should have thrown her back. Those young ones are catch and release, right? </sarcasm>
Seriously, man - the girl says she was raped, and you want to stick her with a needle? This makes less sense than poking her already abused vagina with a swab in search of semen. Oh, wait, the rapist says it was consensual? Oh, well then, it's alright - bleed the bitch!!
(Score: 2) by ewk on Friday March 09 2018, @08:39AM (4 children)
No woman ever lied... Sure....
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 09 2018, @02:37PM (3 children)
Nor has any man ever lied. More to the point, no woman has ever been raped by a man, right? Every case ever investigated was found to be trumped up.
I've got an idea. In this age of social justice, and putting down white hetero males, why don't we just have a judicial lottery system? 50% of rape suspects are put to death, and 50% are exonerated, and the victims are put to death instead. Notice, I limited that to white hetero males, because only white hetero males have raped every gender, race, nationality, and culture they have ever met. /sarcasm
(Score: 2) by ewk on Friday March 09 2018, @03:02PM (2 children)
Please tell me what you have been snorting... that way I know what to avoid.
Social justice is neither, so sarcasm or not, your rant totally missed my point of applying the right amount of due diligence where it is needed.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 09 2018, @03:38PM (1 child)
Did I neglect my /sarcasm tag?
(Score: 2) by ewk on Friday March 09 2018, @05:42PM
Nope, hence my remark of "so sarcasm or not".
But, if your reaction was an extension/elaboration to mine, then my ability to recognize it as such, needs a bit of fine tuning. :-)
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:47PM
Not that intrusive for the court, maybe. Although I would also disagree with that.
It's much more intrusive for meeting people on the street than a simple ID check.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"