[Tom]

[rquote=2602602&tid=142181&author=NettoSuperstar!][rquote=2602576&tid=142181&author=MassiveTruck][rquote=2602476&tid=142181&author=NettoSuperstar!][rquote=2599565&tid=142181&author=MassiveTruck]The odd thing is, the age of consent is, 16 years old. This girl was 15 years old... but people will still scream and shout if a 16 year old girl sleep with somebody 8 or more years older or years older.

Should we raise the age of consent then?

If we don't raise the age of consent, is it really that bad that she had a lesbian relationship with somebody who is only a year away from being legal?

I have to add - none of this includes my opinion which is, she fell in love and that's hard on her, but adults have a responsibility to kids too young to know better.

So should the age of consent be changed?
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Yeh I agree its kind of a grey area really and none of us can really make a judgement without knowing the people involved, some 16 year olds are as mature mentally and physically as some people in their early 20s and Im sure raising the age of consent would cause more problems. Having said that, she was underage and the older woman should have held back and regardless of that she was her teacher and in a position of power and trust, she should have walked away. I dont think shes a predatory paedophile to be honest though looking at it from what evidence there is.[/rquote]

All of these things come into play. All these grey areas and we leave this to a court of law to decide while people in general are open to pass judgement and opinion on things. I guess that is why we have free speech - because the laws of our land aren't as finely tuned and direct as we would like them to be.

The funny thing is, when somebody below the edge of 16 has sex with another person below the age of 16, then is that against the law? LOL Do they both go to a detention centre? Or is it on the basis of diminished responsibility only when an older individual takes part...

Strange. In the past people would be married by 13 and have a family by 18...

Now we need workers for the new empire.[/rquote]

I think it is against the law for people under the age of 16 to have sex but its rarely enforced for obvious reasons. The law should be enforced where one person is underage and the other is older (or the other has a position of power over them in some way) because the possibility of manipulation and abuse is more likely. Cases like this where it is in a grey area, then the people involved in the case (lawyers/family/and the people in the relationship) have to decide between them what is an appropriate punishment within the law, this is how the court system works and should work IMO. We pass judgement but we dont really know the full story. As for getting married at 13, well they were the grim old days! We used to burn strange women with cats too heheh[/rquote]

That comes a bit grey when you have people in a relationship where one is 15 and the other is 16 or 17