I wasn’t trying to diminish the wrong doing, but I understood the point of the case was she was trafficked rather than she was underage and was therefore raped. . I apologise if my post inferred that I didn’t think he was an abusive rapist slimeball.
It's the fact someone is trafficked (and the person having sex with them knew or suspected it) that makes it a rape; trafficked women and girls don't have the freedom not to consent.
That’s the point I was making.
A moot point in so much as she can’t have consented, yes?
In the video address to the COP26 Jamboree, Brenda made a point of praising my eldest son and his eldest son.
Yes, I realise that my use of language wasn’t great.
That's not strictly correct.
That's not strictly correct.
Sexual offences with a child under the age of 13 is charged under a different part of the legislation than sexual offences with a child aged 13 to 16.
Statutory rape is where one or both of the participants are under the age of consent.
I thought it was statutory rape if one of them was under 16? In that someone under 16 cannot legally give consent?
I think that the law doesn't actually say anywhere that someone under 16 can't give consent, only that it is a crime to have sex with someone under 16.
It's not that 13 is the cut-off, the cut-off is the age of consent which is 16. There are different crimes for those who have unlawful sex with a child under the age of 13.
It's hard to verify a negative, so I'm not going to be any bolder than saying it's what I think.
Not really, you could see how it's written in the statute with regards to consent.
the whole point of an age of consent is that people below that age are unable to give consent: although activity by someone under the age of consent with someone else under the aoc can be a grey area
galop.org.uk
yeh but you can read themBut it isn’t statutory rape unless they’re under 13.
I don’t write the laws.
And, on doing so, you'd see that, whilst sex with someone under 13 is considered statutory rape (s.5 - "Rape of a Child Under 13"), consensual sex with someone over 13 but under 16 isn't (s.9 - "Sexual Activity with a Child").
