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My point is more one of INTENT.
When someone underage goes into a club, they set out with the intent to deceive people into thinking they are older than they are.
A person in the club, has reason to believe that the people in there are over the age of consent, given that on the door of the club it says over 18s only, or 21, or 25 in some cases.
That person has no reason therefore to assume that the person they are talking to is anything other than a minimum of 2 years over the age of consent.
Should they then discover that the person they slept with is younger than the age of consent they are then in a position where they can be charged with anything from indecent assault, assault through to statutory rape. This is wrong, they had no intent to seduce a minor, they had valid reason to assume they were of legal age, and met them in an environment where they should have been legally old enough in the first place.
The underage party in this case is the one who is to blame.
They set out with the intent of deceiving people into thinking they were over 18 (and, given that they were in the club they had achieved it)
It should therefore fall on the underage person to be named and shamed as they were the only person who was less than honest in the situation, and the person of legal age in this case becomes the victim, yet in this circumstance the law is reversed, the victim becomes the criminal, and the criminal becomes the victim....
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