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With respect to this, I also think the Law should be changed.
As it stands an adult who has sex with an underage person is charged and the child isn't named for legal reasons.
If however they met in a club, as a result of the child dressing and passing through club security as someone over 18, and therefore over the age of consent then they should also name the child and lay some of the blame for the incident on them. After all, had they not deceived the management of the club, the staff of the club and with it, the patrons of the club, then the situation would never have arisen.
If someone takes these steps to deceive so many people into thinking they are of legal age for alcohol, then they also should take responsibility for their actions.
Currently when you meet someone in a club you have to attempt to be relatively certain that they are old enough, and if the door staff couldn't tell while sober, then how are you supposed to tell when you have been drinking? Yet as the law stands you are responsible even in this circumstance, which, in my opinion is ludicrous.
Not that I am saying that alcohol is a viable excuse for underage sex, merely that responsibility has to lie on the shoulders of the person who initially set out to deceive. In this case it would also be the person we normally see as a victim, at least in the current eyes of a blinkered legal system.
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