Under Missouri law, consensual sex between Mr. Barnett and Ms. Coleman would not be statutory rape because he was under 21 and she was at least 14.
10.38am: David Banks, co-author of McNae's Essential Law for Journalists and one of the experts co-opted onto Jack Straw's working group on libel, says: "Can't see redtops accepting a selfregulator that would stop them publishing for a day, would have to be statutory".
Washington's measure would be a statutory legal change, while Colorado's would amend the State Constitution.
By law, however, those relationships would be considered statutory rape and human trafficking.
Every slippery nuance of a power game that ends in what would be called statutory rape in the United States rings nastily true.
If, for example, you have worked for eight years your notice would be the statutory minimum of eight weeks, regardless of whether your contract provides a lesser period.
David Cameron, the prime minister, rushed out a statement saying the intelligence services commissioner, Sir Mark Waller, would be given "statutory powers of oversight of use of bulk personal datasets".
This would be a statutory body, consisting of a chairman and not more than eight commissioners, chosen by the Secretary of State, who would examine new developments in the relevant science, the state of the law and 'the theological, philosophical and ethical dimensions of such law or development'.
Redbridge Council said none of the children would be of statutory school age before January.
(Following the publication of today's report, The Guardian reports that the U.K. Prime Minister rushed out a statement specifying the intelligence services commissioner, Sir Mark Waller, would be given "statutory powers of oversight of use of bulk personal datasets").
