Lots of troubling aspects to this whole story. First of all, according to MSM reports, this all stems from a rape case of an 11 year old in 2009. The mother contacted the authorities and a 29 year old man was arrested. However he said that the child told him she was 14, nearly 15, and she consented to sex, and that they had 'flirted' before. (That's how pedos think - read the academic literature on them). Anyway, the judge acquitted the case based on what the rapist said. So all this talk in the media about younger children being old enough to consent is bullshit for the originating case that sparked the whole thing.

France to change law after man cleared of raping 11-year-old in because 'relationship was consensual' - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-man-rape-11-year-old-consensual-relationship-cleared-law-change-marlene-schiappa-a8052766.html

[Notice the lily-livered press did not allow comments on the article.]

It came after two days of hearings on what constitutes rape in French law which concluded that elements that constitute rape such as “coercion, threat, violence and surprise were not established”, according to public prosecutor Dominique Larens.

French newspaper, Le Parisien, reported that the prosecution launched an appeal on Friday.

About the appeal : http://www.leparisien.fr/fait-du-jour/viol-sur-mineurs-justine-victime-sans-coupable-11-11-2017-7386477.php

It was in January 2010 that the case started when Justine's family discovered her pregnancy. Until then, the child had never mentioned his aggression. The "bad meeting" took place one evening in August 2009: Congolese origin, Justine, who then lives in Nevers (Nièvre) spends her holidays with an uncle. While she plays with her cousin at the foot of the building, a man approaches her.

Justine has always maintained that she gave her age to this stranger, who asked her to accompany him to the park, which she accepted.

Put simply, the child was black. Is that the reason the French court acquitted the man? Why is it that the name of the judge does not appear in any article?

The article goes on:

The mother of the girl shocked by the verdict

She is a devastated mother, stunned by the verdict. Chantal * is the mother of Justine *, remained cloistered in her room, without going to school, after the decision of the Assize Court. The young woman, now 20 years old, is a BTS student. "This man has destroyed the life of my daughter, who has fallen into her trap. After the rape, she was placed in a family because she was pregnant, it was to avoid contact with neighbors. "

Chantal returns the question in her head: "I thought I was relieved by the justice but this verdict increases my anxieties. The jurors, are they parents too, anyway? They would like to take their child to the street and sleep with? "

Stéphanie, a street educator at the Interstice association in Nevers (Nièvre), has known Justine since the material time: "When I met her, although she was pregnant, she had a girlish physique. It could not be confused with a teenager or a woman. She was prostrate, inhibited. Today, she speaks to me a little more easily because we have a relationship of trust. "The educator attended the trial:" When she told the rape at the bar, she was crying. But during the rest of the hearing, she did not move. She suffered very honorably, .. "

France passes new law on child rape, sexual harassment - https://www.dw.com/en/france-passes-new-law-on-child-rape-sexual-harassment/a-44919914

French lawmakers have passed a law that would impose fines for street harassment and make it easier for sex with a child under 15 to be classified as rape. But critics say the law does not go far enough

Most notably, the new law, which goes into effect in September, makes it easier for sexual intercourse between an adult and a minor under 15 to be charged as rape.

Under current legislation, sex with a child under 15 years of age is considered an offense, but prosecutors need to prove it was forced in order to classify it as rape.

Under the new law, judges would be able to classify intercourse with a minor as rape if the sex resulted from an "abuse of vulnerability." Specifically, sex between adults and children under 15 would be considered rape if it were to be found that the adult abused the child's lack of understanding to engage in the act.

What does that even mean? Don't they now give sex education to younger and younger children? So how could a child argue that they don't understand the act of sex? And why should they have to?

According to the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest legal authority, an earlier draft text that said minors under 15 would be assumed not to have given consent to sex with an adult could have been ruled unconstitutional.

The bill also gives people who allege that they were raped while underage an extra 10 years to file complaints, raising the current statue of limitations for sex crimes to 30 years after a purported victim reaches 18 instead of the current 20 years.

What are the statistics on people raped as a child ever coming forward?

Marlene Schiappa, junior minister for gender equality, said the new law would serve as a "deterrent" to potential offenders.

Macron's puppet.

But women's rights activist and former rape counsellor Nikita Blanes told DW that the law did not go far enough and that sex between an adult and a child should not be qualified "as anything but rape."

"Basically in the end what we're faced with is children having to go to court to prove that when they were penetrated or when an adult did a sexual act on them that it was somehow rape," she said, stressing how difficult it was for victims to go through an often prolonged legal process.

40 child protection groups have signed a joined statement against the new law.