Commission Calls for End of Statute of Limitations on Child Sex Abuse
A French commission called for removing all time limits on the prosecution of people suspected of raping or sexually assaulting minors.
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A French commission called for removing all time limits on the prosecution of people suspected of raping or sexually assaulting minors.
A French commission called for removing all time limits on the prosecution of people suspected of raping or sexually assaulting minors.
11 Feb 2021 PARIS (AP) – France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures. Child protection activists and victims celebrated the announcement, but say France needs to do more as a society to stop this abuse. France’s lack of an age of consent – along with statutes of limitations – have complicated efforts to prosecute alleged perpetrators, including recent cases involving a promin...
19 Jan 2021 The director of the French Arab World institute has expressed regret for signing a 1977 letter that called for decriminalising adults having sex with children. Jack Lang, a former Socialist Party politician, former French minister, and former mayor, was confronted on Monday about his signing of a January 1977 letter published as an op-ed in the newspapers Le Monde and Libération and which argued for the decriminalisation of sexual acts with children. The letter was also signed by French philosopher Michel Foucault and former Green Party member of the European Parliament Danie...