On Sat, 10 May 2008 11:31:05 GMT, Palindrome wrote:
>Cub Reporter wrote:
>
>
> > 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?
This change to the law allows you to be prosecuted in the UK for an
act which was perfectly legal i the country where you did it, if it is
an act which would have been an offence if carried out in this
country.
But only for .ual offences carried out against a child.
>
>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.
No, it allows prosecution in country A for certain acts carried out in
country B legally (so far as country B is concerned) but which would
have been illegal to do in country A.
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