Can Anyone Possibly Agree With This Woman?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321473/Age-consent-lowered-13-stop-persecution-old-men-sex-assault-victims-SHOULDNT-anonymity-says-leading-barrister.html

Should the legal age of consent be lowered to 13, so as to fit in with her beliefs?

/// Ms Hewson, a barrister at Hardwicke chambers in London, described the crimes committed by disgraced broadcaster Stuart Hall as 'low level misdemeanours' which would not normally be prosecuted. ///

/// Ms Hewson is regularly ranked as a Leading Junior by The Legal 500 in the fields of public and administrative law, human rights and civil liberties, and professional discipline and regulatory law, according to her chambers’
website. ///

/// She has won cases in the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court and High Court of the Republic of Ireland. ///

[Goodsoulette]

I agree about the low level misdemeanours, however, In the Stuart Hall case, did he admit to putting his hand up the skirt of a 9 year old. That's far too young.

I'm also not entirely convinced that some of these "underage" teenagers who got fondled were advertising there age. If it was obvious the attention wasn't wanted then fair enough but if I had a pound for everytime I got felt up and didn't want to be between the ages of 13-18, well I wouldn't be retiring but I could have a good night out :P

13 is too young for the age of consent, between an adult and an adolescent at least. However, consensual sexual acts between teenagers of a similar age should be disregarded. How can all the onus be on the male purely because he has a penis?

[sp1814]

I quickly dismissed this Ms Hewson's piece because of this near the beginning:

[i]Now even a deputy speaker of the House of Commons is accused of male rape. This is an unfortunate consequence of the present mania for policing all aspects of personal life under the mantra of ‘child protection’.[i]

She is shoehorning a rape case into this and it has nothing to do with child protection or Yewtree.

[sp1814]

Anyone who thinks that there should be a degree of leniency when a man has been found to have fondled a teenage girl should turn it around and think, "Would my attitude be the same if it were a 14 year old boy"?

I am willing to bet that many of these people who refer to Jimmy Saville's 'fumblings' would take a very different attitude.

[jim360]

It would make her argument even more ridiculous if it turned out that the Dep. Speaker is guilty of rape... this sudden and horrible rush to find people who are guilty of despicable crimes!!

Of course Mr. Evans may well turn out to be innocent and charges have yet to be filed.

[andy-hughes]

Jim - what, pray is 'horrible' about bringing abusers to justice?

[jim360]

Nothing, it was sarcasm. I was meaning that if our new-found victim-hood fetishising led to guilty people being rightly condemned, how is that a bad thing? So that Ms. Hewson is being a bit premature dragging the case of e.g. the deputy speaker into it because, while he's innocent until proven guilty, he may well turn out to be guilty. And it would hardly be a bad thing for more guilty people to be condemned as such.