Pedophilia Irish Style

[tw]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Kansas City Bishop Convicted of Shielding Pedophile Priest

If American DA finally start prosecuting, will Vatican City become a sanctuary for pedophiles? How many kids live in Vatican City?

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by tw

How many kids live in Vatican City?

(age of consent: 12)

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

(age of consent: 12)

Ew

[xoxoxoBruce]

They've just been carrying on tradition.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

(age of consent: 12)

As much as I can be considered anti-Vatican, your link suggests nothing of the sort:

While the Vatican State has not made its own complete separate criminal code, and generally uses the Italian criminal code that was in effect at the time of the Lateran Treaty, there are exceptions to this rule. The "Law of the Source of Law" of the Vatican State requires that any Italian laws must first defer to divine law, to Papal decrees, and to canon law. As the Vatican understands divine law, all sex outside of marriage is illicit, and therefore the only lawful consent that may be made for sexual relations is the consent between a husband and a wife. Canon 1083 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states that "A man before he has completed his sixteenth year of age and a woman before she has completed her fourteenth year of age cannot enter into a valid marriage." Thus, assuming the couple is married, the minimum age of consent for lawful sexual relations according to Vatican law is 14 for females, and 16 for males.