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South African legal case
The Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children and Another v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Another
, [2013] ZACC 35, is a decision of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa
which dealt with the application of
statutory rape
laws to consensual sexual acts when both parties are younger than the
age of consent
. The court struck down as
unconstitutional
the provisions of the
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007
that made it a crime for children between the ages of 12 and 16 to engage in consensual sexual activity with other children in the same age range.
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The court found that these laws infringed the rights to
dignity
and
privacy
and the
best interests of the child
principle.
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