 An adult's sexual intercourse with someone below the legal age of consent is defined as statutory rape, based on the principle that a child is not capable of consent and that any apparent consent by a child is not considered to be legal consent.The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is an international treaty that legally obliges states to protect children's rights.Articles 34 and 35 of the CRC require states to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.