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New Draft LawPlease read the whole article for the unseemly issues surrounding this 'debate'.
Amid public shock at the idea that an 11-year-old child could be deemed able to consent to sexual intercourse with an adult, the French government - represented by the Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, and the Minister of Women's Rights, Marlene Schiappa - announced a new draft law that aims to 'solve the problem' by setting an age of consent at 13 years old.
Note, this does not mean that the age under which it is illegal to have sexual relations with a child in France has been dropped from 15 to 13, but rather that if the sexually abused child is at least 13 years old, then the courts may presume that consent was given.
The minister of justice has been pretty clear about this point and publicly stated:"13 years would be an age that seems to me to correspond to what the High Commission for Equality between Women and Men advocated and which other foreign countries have advocated"While the French government and mainstream media laud this development as evidence of great societal progress, they only focus on the two latest abnormal precedents and forget that there was already an implicit age of consent - 15 years old - that was almost always enforced by courts, for decades. So what is depicted as great progress in laws protecting the child is, in practice, a major regression where the age at which a child can be presumed to have consented to sex with an adult has been dropped from 15 to 13. The result being that adults accused of sexual abuse of a minor (between 13 and 15 years old) will likely be given lighter sentences.
As was predicted in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the Elite have a vested interest in keeping their subjugated populace drugged to the maximum extent possible so that they do not ever wake from their stupor in order to challenge their soft (and sometimes overt) tyranny over them.
Comment: Clearly, for some, financial investments and beliefs are more important than the freely available scientific data: