Consider the following three sets of facts in three separate sex crime trials, revealed and broadly agreed on in courts in Ireland last week.
In case one, a man stood accused of having had oral sex performed on him by a teenage girl of sixteen – under the age of consent – when the man was 27 years old. There was no dispute as to the fact that the oral sex took place. The only question was whether the 27 year old man knew that the sixteen year old was sixteen. A jury was asked to consider whether the man had been properly charged with engaging in sexual acts with a child under the age of 17.
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