France could introduce a law to rule that anyone aged under 13 is automatically considered unable to consent to sex after a 28-year-old man was acquitted of raping an 11-year-old because the relations were deemed consensual.
Though it is already illegal in France to have sex with someone aged under 15 rape charges are only brought if prosecutors can prove it was non-consensual.
Currently there is no legal minimum age below which it is presumed in law that a child cannot give consent, which would then automatically bring about rape charges.
But equalities minister Marléne Schiappa wants a legal minimum age set which she said could be 13 or 15-years-old.
“The law will mean that ‘below a certain age, there can be no debate, ever, on the sexual consent of a child, and that any child below a certain age would automatically be considered as raped or sexually assaulted’,” Schiappa said.
Schiappa was speaking out after two recent cases in France hprovoked shock and outrage and highlighted a need to change the laws.
Last week a French man was acquitted of rape after a jury found no evidence that he forced an 11-year-old girl into having sex…
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