Originally Posted by
Jessie
Smarty I understand where you are comming from. But look at these quotes of some acts in the Irish Statute Book.
"Section 2 of the Age of Majority Act, 1985 provides that a person attains the full legal age when he attains the age of eighteen (18) years, or in case where he marries before attaining that age, upon his marriage"
"The principle act dealing with the welfare of children is the Child Care Act, 1991 which defines a child as a person under the age of eighteen (18) years other than a person who is or who has been married (s.2(1))"
"The Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1998 Section 3 ss(2)
Any person who takes, detains, or restricts the personal liberty of a child for the purpose of his or her sexual exploitation, uses a child for such a purpose, or organises or knowingly facilitates such taking, detaining, restricting or use, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on convicton on indicment to imprisonment for term not exceeding 14 years."
"Definition of sexual exploitation is given in Section 3 ss(3). "sexual exploitation" means—
inducing or coercing the child to engage in prostitution or the production of child pornography,
using the child for prostitution or the production of child pornography,
inducing or coercing the child to participate in any sexual activity which is an offence under any enactment, or the commission of any such offence against the child"
Ok, I'm aware Smarty that you mean this:
"The legal age at which a person is currently competent to consent to sexual intercourse is currently seventeen (17) years"
Also that in Criminal Law Amendment act 1935 they are only talking about ages under 17 years old.
But Smarty I think due to what I state above, acts 1985, 1991, 1998 etc that if you have sexual intercourse with a 17 year old prostitute, you are still guilty of exploitation of a child into prostitution. You are a client so you are using and helping exploiting this child for your own sexual purposes and inducing her to participate in a sexual activity, so therefore guilty of an offense.
And I'm talking about a 17 year old in prostitution not a normal 17 year old that you met under normal circunstances.
So Smarty I don't think the law will let you get away with it so easy.
Jessie