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(13,900 posts) Mon Nov 13, 2017, 11:06 AM Nov 2017

France to reassess child sex laws after controversial cases

Source: BBC

France is to consider a change to its laws around sexual consent, according to the minister for gender equality.

Marlene Schiappa said the government was considering setting a fixed age below which sex was automatically a serious offence.

It comes after two cases where men were acquitted of raping two 11 year old girls.

In France the age of consent is 15, but prosecutors still have to prove sex was non-consensual to prove rape.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41966245

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france has a recent problem with child molestation? lapfog_1 Nov 2017 #1
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