An item from the Onion?
A prominent barrister specialising in reproductive rights has called for the age of consent to be lowered to 13.
Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to end the “persecution of old men”.
No, the BBC, but the source is Spiked, so it might as well be the Onion (except the Spiked crew think they’re serious). [Read more…]