SHOULD teens in love be prosecuted if they have underage sex?
There is no easy answer here.
Other cases involving underage sex - for example, when one party is an adult - may have a clear-cut answer, but teen cases are hard to prosecute, said Attorney-General Walter Woon.
'It's basically kids having sex...What do you do if the couple think they're in love? It's less easy if the girl consents,' he noted.
He spoke on this topic on Saturday before social workers, government representatives and teachers at the third annual Singapore Children's Society Lecture.
Titled Changing Social Mores: Protecting Children From Themselves?, it focused on how the law here dealt with the issue of underage sex.
Read the full report in The Sunday Times.
