Duggys Housemate wrote: » I assume it's statuary.
mitosis wrote: » How is it possible he can be proven guilty? What evidence can possibly convict him?
Rascasse wrote: » Statutory rape in the UK requires the child to be 13 or under I think.
Ann22 wrote: » Surely it's under 16...the legal age of consent in the uk.
Xavi6 wrote: » Love that people call him Ken Barlow rather than his real name :pac:
Hannibal Smith wrote: » Its difficult enough to speak up, I hope a culture of skepticism doesn't silence victims again.
ScumLord wrote: » It's not just the skepticism either, just publicly admitting that you were raped would be humiliating in itself. Even if you have evidence to back up what you're saying putting yourself out there and admitting what was done to you can't be easy.
Rascasse wrote: » From memory (a long time ago) we were taught that 16 is the age of consent, 14 and 15 year olds can knowingly consent even though it is not legal, but a 13 year old and younger cannot knowingly consent therefore it is automatically [statutory] rape.
Duggys Housemate wrote: » nope. 16 is it.
The law presumes that when a girl is under 13 she is not mature enough to consent to sex. So even if a 12-year-old girl willingly has intercourse, as far as the law is concerned, she has not "consented" to it because legally she is not able to. (This concept is similar to the age of criminal intent, which assumes that children under 10 cannot commit crimes because they do not understand what crimes are.) The implication of the rule is that anyone who has sex with a girl under 13 is committing what is termed "statutory rape". There is no defence to this charge - even if a boy says the girl was willing or that he thought she was older than she was, it would not matter.
The law is clear that anyone who has sex (or other sexual activity) with someone aged 12 or under will automatically be committing rape, sexual assault or causing sexual activity without consent. This is sometimes known as 'statutory rape', although this term does not exist in the UK legal system.
Rascasse wrote: » I was wrong, it's 12 and under for statutory rape. Sex with a 13-15 year old could be one of many crimes but not 'statutory' rape.BBC: 2nd source: Sexual Assault Referral Centre
Duggys Housemate wrote: » Not useful to this case where he was 35. Its illegal.
mikeym wrote: » Fcuk the "Weatherfield One!"
NuckingFacker wrote: » fyp. The reason he's in such good nick is that he never did a tap of work in his pampered life. I can't stand the lad, there's somthing of the night about him. He comes across as just too nicey nice.
RikkFlair wrote: » Who's gonna be next? .
mikehammer67 wrote: » lot of assumptions there i thought corrie was actually supposed to be a tough gig
Ruudi_Mentari wrote: » Was probably just another one of those persistent advances, insisting until the girl felt she had no option but to eventually comply. aka raaaaape....
Gatling wrote: » That or some bad bitch decided its easy money to cry rape
HondaSami wrote: » http://news.google.ie/news/url?ct2=en_ie%2F0_0_s_3_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNF7uKxGfkcsoyjPkl9ikd0plfC7yQ&cid=52778140325421&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.ie%2Fworld-news%2Feurope%2Fcorrie-star-bill-roache-charged-with-two-counts-of-rape-29236223.html&ei=3YGBUeihIcaS8gP2aw&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=-6695874429170295979&ssid=w ''Coronation Street actor Bill Roache is to be charged with two counts of rape of a 15-year-old girl in 1967, the Crown Prosecution Service said'' "Having completed our review, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Roache to be charged with two offences of rape relating to a girl, aged 15, in 1967." Roache will appear at Preston Magistrates' Court on May 14''.
shopaholic01 wrote: » Police were removing 'brown paper bags' of evidence. What evidence would relate to a crime in 1967?
HondaSami wrote: » No idea, it's all a bit strange unless there is more that we don't know yet. He once said he bedded over a thousand women, will he even remember this girl?
getzls wrote: » He shagged so many that he wouldn't have got through them all if he had to ask them their ages.