Hang on.. read it.. from a news source not RT.
France never had a minimum age before, they are now thinking of setting it at 13
"The law only says that an adult who performs a sexual act with a person under the age of 15 "without violence, coercion, threat or surprise" can be prosecuted for "sexual abuse", not rape."
The age of consent in France is 15, as specified by Article 227-25 of the Penal Code, which reads: "The fact of the commission without violence, constraint, threat or surprise of a sexual offence by an adult on the person of a minor under fifteen years of age is punished by five years' imprisonment and a fine of ?75,000."
They want to charge these people with rape but can't.. so change the law.
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