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Russell Brand admits to sex with 16yo when he was 30 (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Russell Brand ~~admits to sex with 16yo when he was 30~~ confesses to statutory rape.

Fixed that for ya.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Was it? Statutory age varies across the world.

Even if legal, it's creepy as fuck all, but that is still different from statutory

Edit: the article quotes him as saying that's the age in England, implying that's where it occurred. So, creepy as fuck all, but the wrong terminology.

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 month ago

You literally made it technically incorrect. The worst kind of incorrect.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

I’m not one for defending him, and it is fucking weird, but it’s legal here.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

With legal knowledge like this, you could be US Attorney General.