by Julia Lawrinson | Oct 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
29 January 1892, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS BILL Clause 4 – Defilement of girls under 14 years of age: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Hon S. Burt) said that upon a reconsideration of the question of fixing the age of consent at fourteen, the...