sex crime laws

Hong Kong women’s rights advocates and sexual assault survivors are urging authorities to close a legal loophole allowing defendants to claim an honest but mistaken belief in consent as a defense. They argue this undermines proposed reforms to sex crime laws and called for stricter consent definitions to be extended to this defense.

A mother whose teenage daughter died by suicide after the girl's biological father committed incest is demanding California Governor Gavin Newsom enforce stricter sex crime laws. The father received one year in county jail, prompting the mother to call for legislative action to address the case.