Children and consent in France.

[floo]

Yeah, me too.

If he was mentally retarded he was vulnerable.

I can remember many years ago a case of a nine year old girl who had sexual intercourse with a grown man and the judge letting him off saying she was no better than she should be. That was really shocking.

You wonder if the judge was a paedo?

[Robbie]

I'd never thought of that Lr!  Possible.
What I thought at the time was that thejudge was very naive & couldn't contemplate abuse of any kind........but you may be right! Surely judges hear everything and know about stuff most would rather not know. Whatever, it was an awful, unjust, thing to say. He was rightly castigated.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

You wonder if the judge was a paedo?

Don't be ridiculous. The Judge acted according to the law as it stood at that time.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

I'd never thought of that Lr!  Possible.
What I thought at the time was that thejudge was very naive & couldn't contemplate abuse of any kind........but you may be right! Surely judges hear everything and know about stuff most would rather not know. Whatever, it was an awful, unjust, thing to say. He was rightly castigated.

Their law is different to ours. Not everybody accused of breaking the law is guilty. Our law was changed by NuLabour so as to secure more convictions. Had the law not been changed then there would have been fewer prosecutions.

[Rhiannon]

Their law is different to ours. Not everybody accused of breaking the law is guilty. Our law was changed by NuLabour so as to secure more convictions. Had the law not been changed then there would have been fewer prosecutions.

What is your point? That fewer convictions would be preferable? Which law change are you referring to?