"Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message
news:ALiVj.34704$_k2.28115@newsfe11.ams2...
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> "Cub Reporter" wrote in message
> news:ifg924589lgkranqctfa3o92eu9ptfdrhq@4ax.com...
>> ...but OK at home. Regardless of the laws and customs of the foreign
>> country (and whether you took the 16-year-old with you presumably).
>>
>> News article:
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>> UK signs up to new global approach in protecting children from .ual
>> abuse
>>
>> eGov monitor, UK: 9 May 2008
>> http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/18733
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>> Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker today stepped up the Government's
>> commitment to the global protection of young people, having signed the
>> Council of Europe's Convention on the Protection of Children from
>> .ual Exploitation and Abuse. The signature coincided with the second
>> anniversary of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
>> (CEOP).
>>
>> The Convention sets standards to ensure that countries criminalise the
>> .ual exploitation and abuse of children and adopt similar standards
>> of investigation and prosecution of these crimes. It also includes
>> measures on exchanging the identity of convicted . offenders with
>> other countries. The UK is aiming to ratify the Convention as soon as
>> possible and it will come into effect once ratified by five of the
>> signature countries.
>> [...]
>>
>> As a response to the Convention, the Government has amended the .ual
>> Offences Act 2003 to remove the condition of dual criminality in
>> relation to .ual offences committed by British nationals against
>> children overseas.
>>
>> This means that a British national will not be able to target a
>> particular country with less stringent protection of children than
>> England and Wales or Northern Ireland - Scotland has indicated its
>> intention to make a similar legislative change.
>>
>> We will now be able to prosecute UK nationals here for a .ual
>> offence committed against a child anywhere in the world, so long as
>> the act committed would be a relevant offence in this country. We have
>> also raised the age of a child for these purposes from 16 to 18. This
>> has all been achieved through the Criminal Justice and Immigration
>> Bill which received Royal Assent on Thursday 8 May.
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So AOC is 19 if an 18yo is still a child !
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