On 10 May, 12:31, Palindrome wrote:
> Cub Reporter wrote:
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> > What's more to the point, if you go to a country with the *same* AOC
> > as here (16), have . with a 16-year-old, you could be prosecuted
> > when you come home.
>
> > Presumably this would also apply if you took your 16-year-old
> > girlfriend. If you were also 16, she could be prosecuted too. This
> > might happen to married 16-year-olds unless there is a 'marriage
> > exception' to the law.
>
> > I'm surprised that contributors to this thread are failing to see the
> > implications.
>
> You lost me on that one. If the act wasn't illegal in the country that
> you were in at the time, why would you be prosecuted for it?
>
> No one is suggesting that any one should be prosecuted in country A for
> an act carried out in country B that would have been illegal if carried
> out in country C.
From my reading of the OP, that's exactly what is being suggested. The
UK are essentially declaring that any UK citizen having . abroad
with a person under 18 commits an offence in the UK. That's regardless
of whether an offence would be committed under local law, and in the
case of 16-18 year olds, you have the bizarre situation where . may
be entirely legal in the UK, entirely legal in the host country, but
you commit an offence under UK law by having . with your 17 year old
partner purely because you've gone abroad for your holidays. |