I'd imagine (and hope) that raping a child carries a longer sentence than raping someone of legal age.
Should be 20+ years for rape and a life sentence for raping a child.
Just googled it. Makes perfect sense really:
For exploitative sexual activity (prostitution or pornography, or where there is a relationship of trust, authority or dependency), the age of consent is 18 years.
The spirit of the new legislation is not to regulate consensual teenage sexual...
If they're going to change the law, I don't think there should be one set age.
Say they do change it so that the age of consent is 13, so do lock up a 14 year-old boy for having sex with a 13 year old girl? They might even be in the same year at school. In their minds, they are the same age...