The United Nations Committee Against Torture has found that a thousand children have been sexually abused in custody in Britain between 2009 and 2017, and has called for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised.
The two are connected in various ways, one of which is the bizarre situation whereby one might legally be a sexual assailant before one might lawfully engage in consensual sex.
We need a criminal offence of sexual activity with any person under the age of 18 who was more than two years younger than oneself, with a maximum sentence equal to twice the difference in age, and with abolition of different rules for “positions of trust” and for one sex rather than the other.
Then we need to rule out the legal possibility of being a specifically sexual assailant below that age of consent of 18. One might be an assailant below the age of consent. But a sexual assailant? How, exactly?
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.
I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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