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hi, as some of you may know i am a youth worker, basically i have had a question from a young person that i cannot answer or find the answer to.
if the young person aged 15, consented to sex with a 17 year old, has the girls mother then got grounds to go to the police to report the 17 year old lad. the girl is really worried about this. Any advice would be great so i can pass it on to her.
thanks
if the young person aged 15, consented to sex with a 17 year old, has the girls mother then got grounds to go to the police to report the 17 year old lad. the girl is really worried about this. Any advice would be great so i can pass it on to her.
thanks
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It doesn't matter whether or not it was consentual, because it's still illegal.
ETA; Found this article from thesite... http://www.thesite.org/homelawandmoney/law/victims/lawmyths
The law is there to protect those who may not have devolped enough to handle the implications of a sexual relationship, but in a situation like this for all you know the 15 year girl could be more switched on than the lad.
Infact girls do develop quicker than lads.
If the lad hasn't actaully done anything else wrong here and sex was consensual, I would hope that nothing came of it.
the lad speaks sense. Its unlikely any legal issues will arise from this, especially as the age gap between the two is so small.
However, if she denies that anything ever happened and with the age gap in mind then it's very unlikely anything would come of it (other than the mother would lose her daughters trust for ever).
You really are a prize plank, aren't you.
To the OP and others: There is no such thing as "statutory rape", however having sex with a girl under the age of 13 attracts the same highest tariff as rape (life).
The maximum penalty for sex with a girl under the age of 16 is two years, and its unlikely that the police would even prosecute. The mother can make a complaint, but if the girl denies having sex and the boy denies having sex then the police can't do anything to either. No witness evidence = no case to answer.
I thought statutory rape was when someone over the age of consent has sex with someone under the age of consent? Now your saying it doesn't exist. This confuses me.
It doesn't exist, and has never existed under UK law. The law assumes that even very young children can consent to sexual intercourse; young children are protected by ensuring that the penalty for having sex with a young child (under the age of 13) is the same as for rape.
There is an offence of having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of consent, but that isn't the same thing.