Age of consent if Netherlands is 12? WTF

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Galaki on 31 March 2011

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Girl, 12, gives birth on school trip

By QMI Agency

Police in The Netherlands are investigating after a 12-year-old girl gave birth during a school trip.

The girl from Groningen, located 180 km north of Amsterdam, gave birth to a healthy baby girl on March 22, police said in a release Wednesday.

While the legal age of consent is 12 in the Netherlands, the girl would have become pregnant at 11, police said.

Police say they are "now investigating who the father is. At this moment, there is no known suspect."

But the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf said the girl's father is a person of interest in the case.

The girl lives with her father and brother. The father was given custody after he divorced the girl's mother, the newspaper said, despite having been convicted of another sexual offense against another daughter from another woman. He served two years in jail for that crime.

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sapphi_snake on 31 March 2011

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Well, Juliet was 12 when she had sex with Romeo and they got married, so...

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Rath on 31 March 2011

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The age of consent in the Netherlands is 16, as specified by the Dutch Criminal Code, Articles 245 and 247, which read:

Art 245: "A person who, out of wedlock, with a person who has reached the age of twelve but has not reached sixteen, performs indecent acts comprising or including sexual penetration of the body is liable to a term of imprisonment of not more than eight years or a fine of the fifth category."

Art 247: "A person who, with a person whom he knows to be unconscious or physically unable to resist or to be suffering from such a degree of mental defect or mental disease that he is incapable or not sufficiently capable of exercising or expressing his will in the matter or of offering resistance, performs indecent acts, or who, with a person who has not yet reached the age of sixteen (16) years, out of wedlock, performs indecent acts, or by whom the latter is enticed into performing, or submitting to such acts, out of wedlock, with a third party, is liable to a term of imprisonment of not more than six years or a fine of the fourth category."

Consensual sexual relations between adolescents who are close in age are not punished: sexual acts between persons who have reached the age of 12 years are widely tolerated by the courts and the Dutch Public Prosecution Service if the difference in age between the two partners is not too great. The latter is determined at the discretion of the court, though usually three years is deemed acceptable.