Child protection law to increase minimum ages of consent
Saturday, April 6, 2013 @ 1:19 AM
AGES of consent for marriage and consenting to sexual relations are about to go up in Spain in response to requests from UNICEF.
This week, the Spanish government approved its new Childhood and Adolescence Strategic Plan 2013-2016, which will cover ways of protecting the underaged.
It will include methods of safeguarding children in domestic violence cases in a bid to prevent them from becoming direct or indirect victims, a move sparked by the death of a six-year-old girl thought to have been killed by her father in Málaga, who hanged himself immediately afterwards, when he was charged with violence towards his ex-wife and mother of his young daughter.
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