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Comment on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star

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exohuman@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah. Here:

amp.theguardian.com/…/a-timeline-of-sexual-assaul…

Of all those claims, these stuck out:

a 16 year old in 2006 when he was 30 and gave her instructions to hide from parents. Underage is rape.
In 2012 he is accused of raping a woman who was treated in a Rape Treatment Center afterwards.
In 2020, there was another 16 year old and evidently his manager believed him at first and then issued a statement saying he was misled and terminated business with him.

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Tatters@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
16 is not underage in the UK, where this is alleged to have happened.

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- Tesco@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  While it’s not “technically” underage rape, let’s be honest it basically is. No normal person thinks it’s acceptable for some in there 30s to have a relationship with a 16 year old.
  
  The law is there to protect say an 18 year old in collage, where it’s common for 16-18 year olds to be in the same classes, not for creepy 30+ year olds.
  
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  - essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s not how the law works though. You can drink whatever alcohol you can legally buy the second you turn 18 (in the UK). The same applies for sex at 16. Maybe you don’t like it, but 16 is the age of consent for sex, with whoever else is legal.
    
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    Tesco@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    He’s abusing the law, it’s obviously not designed for a 30 plus year old to have a relationship with a 16 year old.
    
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- vashti@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Both child grooming and emotional and sexual assault are illegal in the UK, bizarre as this may seem to you.
  
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  - Tatters@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I fully support them being illegal, why would you think that would be bizarre to me?
    
    I merely pointed out, in the case of the 16 year old schoolgirl, she was not legally underage, no matter how shocking and disturbing we may find Brand’s behaviour, which I do. I don’t think she has made any claims of rape or assault against Brand, but others have. I don’t know what laws, if any, apply to his treatment of her, but I don’t think underage sex is one of them.
    
    If we think something is already illegal when it isn’t, then it reduces the incentive to change the law - why make something illegal when you already think it is? Possibly the UK needs new legislation to vary the age of consent depending on the participants, as in other states.
    
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    vashti@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    She has accused him of both rape and of grooming her. What on earth do you think her punching him in the stomach while he forcibly deep throated her was supposed to be?
    
    This has been highlighted in the news coverage.
    
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