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Change the sexual age-of-consent laws to protect sixteen and seventeen year-olds

Submitted on Wednesday 20th September 2023

Rejected on Thursday 28th September 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change the sexual age-of-consent laws to protect sixteen and seventeen year-olds

Petition Details

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.

Additional Information

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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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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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