When consenting is a crime

Many boys don’t realise it’s an offence to have sex with a girl under 16 even if it’s consensual (file photo posed by model).

THE new health education syllabus on the PEERS (reproductive and social health education) curriculum will see general information on statutory rape being included in the Year Six textbook. And, in Form Five, the topic will be further discussed in the context of sexual assault starting next year, the Education Ministry told StarEdu.

Delivered in formal and non-formal settings, PEERS uses an incremental, spiral-curriculum approach that starts at an early age and builds new information on previous learning.