legal age of consent

• Infants

. Persons who are under the age of legal majority?at COMMON LAW, 21 years, now generally 18...Age of Legal Medical Consent. Traditionally, children have been deemed legally ...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• Alleged Victim Says She Was Hypnotized After Sex

AUBURN -- A certified hypnotist practiced his craft on a 14-year- old girl each time after sex with her in an effort to "keep her quiet," a prosecutor said Monday. An attorney for Aaron Patton, 37, of Jay held a different view, telling a jury in Androscoggin County Superior Court that the girl with whom his client had sex was 16 at the time and was of legal age to consent to the act.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• January 26, 2011

• Polygamous Sect Pledges to Quit Performing Underage Marriages

ELDORADO, Texas -- The same day a judge signed an order returning hundreds of FLDS children taken in the raid to their anxious parents, the polygamous sect pledged to no longer perform underage marriages. In the future, the church commits that it will not preside over the marriage of any woman under the age of legal consent in the jurisdiction in which the marriage takes place," Fundamentalist LDS Church member Willie Jessop said Monday, reading from a statement. "The church will counsel families that they neither request nor consent to any underage marriages. This policy will apply church- wide.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• June 03, 2008

• Teacher Suspended Amid Accusations

A male Lockport High School teacher accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student has been suspended while city police investigate. The teacher has ended up in trouble professionally but may not face criminal charges because the student is 18 years old, a year above the legal age of consent, city police Capt. Richard Podgers told The Buffalo News.

• Buffalo News
• May 19, 2010

• Parents Face Extortion Charge

ATHENS, Ga. - A teacher of deaf students has been charged with having sex with three teens, and the parents of one student have been charged with trying to extort money from her. An interpreter for deaf and hearing-impaired students in the Clarke County School District employed by the state made the extortion claim to police and wound up arrested herself last week. Natasha Walker McCrary, 32, is charged with child molestation and accused of having sex with three 15-year-old students in her home and at a motel, but she wasn't charged in connection with a fourth student who was the legal age of consent.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• February 03, 2006

• 45 CFR 63.32 - Data collection instruments.

... an individual who has not attained the legal age of consent to participate in research as deter...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 45: Public Welfare

• Police Explore More Charges Against Ex-Baptist Pastor -- Cordova Man Charged with Molesting Boy Over 5 Years

A former Cordova pastor charged with sexually abusing a youth at his church may face additional sex charges, officials said Monday. Steven C. Haney, 46, formerly with the Walnut Grove Baptist Church in Cordova, was charged Thursday with molesting the boy over a period of five years, beginning when the victim was 15, under the legal age of consent.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• July 18, 2007

• United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Antone Raymond Austin, Defendant-Appellant., 426 F.3d 1266 (10th Cir. 2005)

... of violence" but also noted involved a legal issue for the court to determine. Prior to the sen...In addition, in Colorado, consent of both parents is required for a person under the...

• Federal Circuits

• Bill Cuts Provision On Age of Consent

COLUMBIA - The South Carolina constitutional provision setting 14 as the age of legal consent for women to have sexual intercourse would be deleted under a proposal before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Fourteen is too young and the provision is especially archaic because it only applies to females, said the legislation's lead sponsor, Sen. Chip Campsen, R-Isle of Palms.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• April 03, 2007

• Chapter VI. Selected legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations and related
       inter-governmental organizations

Legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations Accreditation of Permanent Observers by non-members at United Nations Headquarters 236 Legal position regarding the import of arms and war materials by the Central GoverlIment of the Republic of the Congo Interpretation of paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 1474 (ES IV) of 20 September 1960 - Interpretation of paragraph 6 of the Security Council resolution of 24 November 1961 238 Legal policy concerning the detention by the United Nations of mercenaries and other persons referred to in paragraph A-2 of the Security Council resolution of 21 February 1961 Interpretation of paragraph 4 of the Security Council resolution of 24 November 1961 - Interpretation of article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions - Right of c...

... adopted or when the Chairman with the consent of the Committee has declared the debate closed, t...

• United Nations Juridical Yearbook
• Nbr. 1962, January 1962
• Part Two. Legal activities of the United Nations and related inter-governmental organizations