Clause 14 - Child sex offences committed by children or young persons
Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Mr Paul Goggins (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Wythenshawe and Sale East, Labour)
I shall respond to that and link it with the comments of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Redcar. I almost always find her comments persuasive. The difficulty in applying amendment No. 132 here is that once we get into the mathematical formula of ages and start talking about the difference between penetrative and non-penetrative
sexual activity we enter a minefield. We can all think of non-penetrative sexual activity that is extremely serious if it is going on between children.