wizzkid wrote:
Rape is Rape at any age, nae-one can argue that.
Normally rape refers to sex without the female's consent, but if the female is below the age of sexual consent (16) then in law she's deemed to have been raped whether or not she actually consented.
(I think this also depends on the age of the male in question and probably differs between England and Scotland, but the details of that aren't really relevant to what's going on at the moment in this case, although perhaps they might have been as regards what happened before the girl was 16.)