Guyana to raise consensual sex age to 16

Guyana women's organizations yesterday hailed a bill that would raise the minimum legal age for consensual sex from 13 to 16. The bill amends an 1893 law that allowed the children of indentured East Indians working on British-run sugar plantations to marry as young as 13 in keeping with tradition. The practice has virtually disappeared in the former British colony, but the law opened the door to what would now be considered statutory rape in many other countries.

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