Explainer: You can’t sue someone for child sexual assault if the child ‘consented’

Sometimes the law creates ridiculous and obscene fictions. Let’s say an already convicted paedophile grooms and abuses a 15-year-old child in the course of their relationship at a school or in an institution. The paedophile is charged by police, is convicted by a court, is sentenced to a term of imprisonment and placed on the […]

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