Limerick Brothel Raided

[blueforever]

Lets clear this the legal for sexual intercourse is 18. The travelling community had to stop girls getting married at 17 a couple of years back and priests performing these ceremonys were warned by the gardai not to. 18 escort or not the law does not distinguish

[ber]

Lets clear this the legal for sexual intercourse is 18. The travelling community had to stop girls getting married at 17 a couple of years back and priests performing these ceremonys were warned by the gardai not to. 18 escort or not the law does not distinguish

No that is incorrect the age of consent is 17 , u may not get married until u are 18 except in certain cases where a court exemption order can be applied for. In the past parental consent was also required for marriages under 18 but this is no longer
the case. If u get married outside Ireland anywhere the age limit is lower u must still get a court exemption order here to have the
marriage legally recoginised in Ireland

[rover]

No that is incorrect the age of consent is 17 , u may not get married until u are 18 except in certain cases where a court exemption order can be applied for. In the past parental consent was also required for marriages under 18 but this is no longer
the case. If u get married outside Ireland anywhere the age limit is lower u must still get a court exemption order here to have the
marriage legally recoginised in Ireland

Hello Ber old buddy, come back to us, the place is not the same without you, I promise I won't post any pictures on your thread.

[Sensual Delights]

True, someone was only 17 y.o. :

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[DONEGALANGEL]

Well who is to say this girl did not pretend she was 18.. was there not a case in England last year where as girl who was still at school was working for an agency... she had told people she was older than she was ... I like what adultwork does now.. an escort can prove she is real and verifies this adult work lets people know by putting it on her profile... unfortunately many escorts lie about their age...and many young ladies make them selves up so well it is hard to say how old they are nowadays..Angelx

[bigladdub]

I have decided to post a reply to this as it is such a serious matter, u are 100% wrong in what u say, if u are
caught having sexual relations with a person under 18 years of age for money it will be treated as engaging
in child prostitution. Even though the legal age for sex is 17, from an escorting perspective., any minor(u 18)
is consider a child under the law. In this country under law u cannot be considered an escort(prostitute)
unless u are at least 18 yrs old.
The information u gave out is very dangerous as it could give the impression that to pay someone for sex
under 18 is not a serious offence when u could end up charged with rape of a minor and that would be far
from funny

Thanks mate

I am coming to this thread a little late and don't know if I have anything new to add, but it did occur to me that for all the thrill of a young girl (i.e. over 18) that lots of guys get, what is the difference between 17 and 18?

This has made me think about my attitude and what is right and wrong.

A sobering moment of thought..........


BLD

[El Gordo]

For people who didn't follow Ber's link, here is the full text:

Head 5: Soliciting or paying for purpose of sexually exploiting a child
Provide that -
(1) A person who, in any place or by any means,
(a) solicits or importunes a child,
(b) pays, offers or promises to pay or attempts to pay a child or another person money, or
(c) provides, offers or promises to provide or attempts to provide a child or another person with some other form of financial advantage,
for the purpose of the sexual exploitation of the child by that or any other person is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who accepts or agrees to accept money or some other form of financial advantage in the circumstances referred to in subhead (1) is guilty of an offence.
(3) It shall be a defence to proceedings for an offence under subheads (1) and (2) for the defendant to prove that he/she honestly believed that, at the time of the alleged commission of the offence, the child against whom the offence is alleged to have been committed had attained the age of 18 years
(4) Where, in proceedings for an offence under subheads (1) and (2), it falls to the court to consider whether the defendant honestly believed that, at the time of the alleged commission of the offence, the child against whom the offence is alleged to have been committed had attained the age of 18 years, the court shall have regard to the presence or absence of reasonable grounds for the defendant’s so believing and all other relevant circumstances.
(5) A person guilty of an offence under this head is liable on conviction on indictment -
(a) in case the child was under 15 years of age, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years, and
(b) in case the child was 15 years of age or over but under 18 years of age, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years.

For punters, subheads 3 and 4 are important. There is a defence of honest belief, but this belief has to be based on some reasonable grounds. Is a profile age reasonable grounds for believing a lady is over 18? I would say probably not.

For E-I, subhead 2 is interesting. My reading is that E-I would be liable for advertising a minor, unless they could show they had reasonable grounds to believe she was 18 or over.

[sweethomes]

I think E-I can never be really shure if a lady advertising is a minor or not , since there is no way to tell unless they see a photo-Id in any form ! The problem with that , how many ladies are willing to give out that information , in " fear " to be exposed to autorities or others ! Even if E-I changes the way off aplicating to advertise , it will only leed them to loose a lot of ladies who simply switch to other pages who dont take that matter seriouse . So nothing changed , unless the law about prostitution is changed and it needs to be changed by people who know this business !
And I dont believe thats going to happen ....