If a child allows a grown man to beat the living crap out of him, the adult can still be charged with child abuse and assault, right?
As the law is now, yes.
But if they decide to make it legal for a child to involve themselves in a transaction agreement with an adult that gives full permission of said agreement, then what do you do? The transaction agreement includes both parties.
The idea being that the child cannot legally consent, in the first place,
They can legally consent now.
and the adult is supposed to know enough to say no to committing the crime.
What people should do and what is legal are not the same thing.
We are talking about the law now says is legal to do.
And this law now makes it legal for a consenting minor to have a legal transaction
with a consenting adult.
The consenting transaction, the consenting deal, the consenting agreement, is between
both consenting parties, not just one of them.
And it allows for no real way to stop children who willingly engage in prostitution.
Yep.
Child protective services are going to have a hard time with this one because it's now legal for kids to enter into a legal transaction of sex with an adult.
Will parents be penalized for trying to prohibit their child from making a LEGAL transaction?
No telling how many dominoes are going to fall with this one.
shivers