THE AGE OF CONSENT
BILL TO RAISE THE'LIMIT TO EIGHTEEN. By TeIPEM-nli— Press Aesooiation-t'opirißht • "Timea". and Syilnev "Sun" Scrvlc«s. . (Bee. April 30, 6 p.m.) London, April 29. In tho .House of Lords, the Bishop of London (Dr. Ingram) moved the second reading of the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, which proposes to raise the ago of consent Jrom sixteen to eighteen, and otherwise to increaso protection for girls. Dr. Ingram declared that many girlr. between tho ages of sixteen and eighteen wore on the London streets. "If girls' property is protected until they are twenty-one," ho pleaded, "it is surely right that their virtuo'should be protected until they aro eishteen." Tho present condition 01 Criminal Law, he. added, was unworthy of a 'Christian State. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Haldane , ) feared that tho raising of the age would tend to produce cases of blackmail, which wore iiicreasinfc in London; The Government did not oppose tlio Bill, which passed its second reading.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 7
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159THE AGE OF CONSENT Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 7
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