Minimum age of sexual consent could rise from 13 to 16 in Spain
Friday, May 31, 2013 @ 10:10 PM
SPAIN'S government is considering increasing the minimum age for consenting to sexual relations with adults to 16.
At present it is 13, one of the lowest in the western world, and UNICEF has been advising Spain to increase it since around 2007 in order to prevent child abuse.
And the European Commission considers that a child aged under 15 years is not capable of consenting to sex with adults.
Although a significant increase in the minimum age of sexual consent has been under discussion for many years, the real debate was sparked at the end of last year when a 13-year-old girl was shot dead by her boyfriend of 39, who later shot himself in the head when surrounded by police.
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