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Canadian age of consent rises to 16

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Monday, May 05 2008 @ 04:24 AM CDT
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World NewsThe age of sexual consent in Canada has risen from 14 to 16 under a new law that is part of the Conservative government's omnibus anti-crime legislation.

For Diane Sowden of Coquitlam, changes to the Criminal Code didn't come soon enough.

When her daughter became pregnant at the age of 14 by a 27-year-old drug dealer, Sowden turned to police for help, only to discover she had no legal recourse. At 14, her daughter was considered an adult. -- Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun
 
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Woman Accused Of Raping 13-Year-Old Boy

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Sunday, April 27 2008 @ 11:29 AM CDT
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Views: 130
General NewsProsecutors charged an 18-year-old woman with rape of a child, but a family friend said the woman was lied to.

Prosecutors accused Jessica Nicole Lee, 18, of having sex with a 13-year-old schoolmate.

Kim Nickels, a family friend, says Lee was lied to. --by KCTV5.com
 
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Donegal teenager to challenge statutory rape laws

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Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 05:26 AM CDT
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Views: 124
World News A Donegal teenager who is charged with statutory rape is to challenge the controversial law at the High Court.

The 17-year-old is charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl in August 2006, when he was 15.

He claims the law discriminates against him because he is male. --Belfast Telegraph
 
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After 6 Years, Star's Trial Date Nears

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Monday, April 21 2008 @ 05:39 AM CDT
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Views: 120
General NewsIt has been six years since silky-voiced singer R. Kelly was indicted on child pornography charges, accused of videotaping himself in sex acts with a 14-year-old girl. He has since sold millions of albums, earned tens of millions of dollars, toured the nation -- and never faced a jury.

Attorneys dueled one another over expert witnesses. They battled about the videotape. They won postponements because of other trials and obligations. A prosecutor gave birth, Kelly had an appendectomy and the judge fell off an 18-foot ladder while trying to fix a skylight. --By Peter Slevin
 
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To Catch An Underaged Predator

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Thursday, April 17 2008 @ 10:07 AM CDT
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Views: 221
HumorGood or bad, you gotta love YouTube. This Chris Hansen spoof is worth a chuckle.
 
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Parents of Sexually Abused Teen Say New Law A Victory

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Tuesday, April 15 2008 @ 04:07 AM CDT
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Views: 141
General NewsA victim's parents speak out for the first time on their teen daughter's sexual relationship with her teacher. They say finally a new law will protect kids against sexual predators.

"Seeing the legislature and the law change helps to ease that pain," said the victim's mother.

The new law holds teachers and authority figures more accountable for sexual abuse. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed House Bill 211 into law Monday. It stiffens the penalties for adults in a position of authority, teachers for example, who have sexual contact with teenagers under the age of 18. --by Jennifer Horbelt
 
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'Beau of the Ball'; Foley Shrugs Off Sex Scandal

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Sunday, April 13 2008 @ 05:49 PM CDT
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Views: 116
PoliticsCalled the "Beau of the Ball," former Congressman Mark Foley has re-emerged in Palm Beach society at a charity gala, his transgressions with former teenage pages and sexually explicit messages apparently forgotten and forgiven.

"Believe me. People were thrilled to see him," said socialite Dorothy Sullivan, who co-chaired the Palm Beach Fashion Week charity gala last month at the famed Mar-a-Lago Club, where Foley was photographed surrounded by women. "He was glad he came," she told ABC News.com. --By VIC WALTER and KRISTA KJELLMAN
 
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Study: media creates online sex predator myths

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Thursday, April 10 2008 @ 08:46 PM CDT
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General NewsAccording to a new study by researchers at the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center, most of what the you think about Web-based sex predators is probably wrong.

The study, published in the February/March issue of the journal American Psychologist and titled, "Online 'Predators' and Their Victims: Myths, Realities and Implications for Prevention," was based on three surveys: two of teen Internet users, and one involving hundreds of interviews with law enforcement officials. The results reveal that "the stereotype of the Internet 'predator' who uses trickery and violence to assault children is largely inaccurate." --Xinhuanet
 
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Better to have sex with boys than girls?

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Thursday, April 10 2008 @ 06:49 AM CDT
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Op-EdsKate Zernike's Ideas & Trends piece in the Times poses the possibility that while it may not be all that savory for adult women to have sex with teenage boys it shouldn't be illegal -- or rather that we should re-examine the age of consent.--By Evan Derkacz
 
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ADULT IMPERSONATION: RAPE BY FRAUD

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Tuesday, April 08 2008 @ 08:25 PM CDT
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Op-Eds“But s/he said that s/he was eighteen.” That this defense will probably be unsuccessful is as old a story as the 1875 case that every first-year law student reads in Criminal Law. The story goes something like this. A fifteen- year old, who plausibly looks eighteen, tells a nineteen-year old that s/he is eighteen. Reasonably relying on the juvenile being above the age of consent, the nineteen-year old agrees to engage in intercourse with the fifteen- year old. As any issue-spotting first-year law student might instantly surmise, this is a story about statutory rape and the strict liability rule that a mistake about the victim’s age, even when induced by the victim’s false representation, is no defense. In “the immemorial tradition of the common law,” and in most jurisdictions today, the nineteen-year old will be guilty of statutory rape

But this story also depicts another type of rape—with the roles of perpetrator and victim reversed—that has never before been noticed. By one and the same act of intercourse, the fifteen-year old victim of statutory rape is simultaneously a perpetrator of rape. --Russell L. Christopher & Kathryn H. Christopher
 
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