Submitted on Wednesday 20th September 2023
Rejected on Thursday 28th September 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Change the sexual age-of-consent laws to protect sixteen and seventeen year-olds
Present laws are open to predatory people seeking to groom much younger people for sex. A staggered age-of-consent system that allowed young people to engage in sex with those of a similar age, whilst preventing older people from sex with 16 & 17 year-olds, would help prevent abuse.
Now it is legal for someone of any age to engage in sexual activity with a sixteen-year-old. This leaves the door open for what is effectively legal grooming of young people, which can cause long-term psychological harm.
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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for a similar action:
Make it illegal for people over 21 to have sexual intercourse with under 18s:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/644607
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