[lily.]

It's a dodgy one isn't it.

Girls lie about their age all the time. What's a guy supposed to do? ID them? If she looks a certain age, then he will obviously take it at face value that she is a certain age. I don't think he should be on any register as he didn't willingly go and have sex with an underage girl. He had sex with a girl who claimed to be of age. So that ought to have been taken into account.

Since this has now made international news, I hope the guy gets some justice from this, as he clearly didn't go out looking for a child to have sex with. The whole thing has been horribly mishandled in my view. I expect, as Liv says, there will be lawyers in there like a dog eating biscuits.