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Connecticut Bishops Fight Sex Abuse Bill

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What, me worry?4/12/2010 5:22:55 pm PDT

re: #251 Decatur Deb

New Hampshire is 13 for Females, 14 for Males. Tennessee was 12, IIRC, in my lifetime.

[Link: www.law.cornell.edu…]

When places adopted consensual age at 14, they did so because girls got married at 16. The laws may be on the books, but against a rape charge, I don’t see how they’d apply.