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Do 12 year olds really look 16?

Posted by Petrie Hosken on July 28, 2010 at 16:19PM

And if they do, who is responsible for checking their age?

We started by talking about trying to solve the housing crisis and an idea that council tenants with too much room could be forced to live in smaller properties.  I wanted to know if you thought this was fair?

We then moved onto a story where I was unsure which side of the fence I was on.  I asked if you thought a judge has been unduly lenient after giving a suspended jail term to a 19-year-old man who had sex with a 12-year-old girl (who said she was 16)? I asked if we should enforce the age-of-consent laws more fully and whose responsibility should it be the check the age of a sexual partner?

Finally we discussed the thorny issue of insurance because a young man with a 2,000 pound car has been quoted 17,000 pounds insurance.  I asked if insurance companies should be made to be more reasonable or if this was an attempt at keeping young drivers off the road?

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