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Thread #128156   Message #2866088
Posted By: Jack Campin
17-Mar-10 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Clerical child abuse Part 94....
Subject: RE: BS: Clerical child abuse Part 94....
There can't be any country in the world where it's illegal for a priest to have sex with a 19-year-old, surely? (I thought you might have made a typo, but no, it checks out).

In Brazil the age of consent (for either heterosexual or homosexual activity) is 14.

Looking further down the MSNBC story, the priest was also accused of having seduced a boy aged 12 some time in the past, but instead they chose to make their headline out of something that was no sort of crime, simply because they got it on video.

The Catholic Chursh may not come very well out of this but the media isn't much better.