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In reply to the discussion: Anonymous on the case of lesbian girl charged with statutory rape. [View all]Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)38. Connecticut's law changed last year to allow a three year difference
State of Connecticut Penal Code, Chapter 952, Sec. 53a-71. Sexual assault in the second degree:
(a)A person is guilty of sexual assault in the second degree when such person engages in sexual intercourse with another person and: (1) Such other person is thirteen years of age or older but under sixteen years of age and the actor is more than three years older than such other person....
The statute goes on from there to add numerous exceptions to the 16 year age of general consent.
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I think you have at least two overgeneralisations and an implicit error there.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2013
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