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Sexual Offences Q

  • 19-04-2008 7:34pm
    #1
    pokkets
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi,

    Just wondering if anyone could let me know whether it was just statutory rape that was changed under the 2006 and 2007 Acts or were other sexual offences altered as well?
    Cheers!


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  • #2
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    First of all, I take it you mean the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) Act, 2006 and the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Act, 2007.

    4 old offences were replaced (well, technically only 3 of them were replaced) by two new offences - defilement of a child under 15 years of age, and defilement of a child under 17 years of age.

    These new offences are different to the old offences, and are broader than statutory rape (i.e. they also include sexual assaults and s.4 rapes as against young children).

    The 2007 Act brought in an offence of soliciting, meeting etc of a child for the purposes of a sexual act.

    So it was only sexual offences committed against children that was changed, if that is what you mean.


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