Church Senator Wade Advocates Raising Belize's Age of Consent to 18
But the church senator is looking at this from another angle and believes that the age of consent needs to be raised to 18. The age of consent is presently 16, but Wade believes that moving the age up two years will help solve the issue of young girls being preyed upon: Louis Wade: "I think that we can make a change in is legislation that moves the age of consent from 16 to 18.A person is very young, and many of them are still in school or in a youth group, and then they are being bombarded with sexual choices, and so it becomes like a gray area between 16 and 18. So a person becomes legal…
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