Rejected petition: Raise the Age of Consent.
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Either raise the age of consent or change the laws so that adults are not able to legally sleep with minors.
16 is far too young to consent to sex with people 19-20+. It’s wrong and disgusting that adults are getting away with sleeping with children.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign the following petitions, which call for similar action:
Change the legal age of consent to intercourse to 18
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/749248Raise the age of consent to 18 with peer exception for 16-17 year olds
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767458Amend age-of-consent laws to protect those under 21
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/747372We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.