<P> In June 2005 , a bill was proposed before the General Assembly of Georgia ( USA ) to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 . The bill failed , however . The Georgia age of consent was 14 from the Progressive era until 1995 , when a bill proposed by state Senator Steve Langford to make 16 the age of consent passed . In 2006 , following the infamous case of Genarlow Wilson ( Wilson v. State ) , aggravated child molestation was reduced to a misdemeanor with a maximum of one year in prison if the offender was under 19 , the victim was either 14 or 15 years old , and the offender is no more than 48 months older than the victim . ( Georgia penal code , 16 - 6 - 4 ) . Previously aggravated child molestation ( at any age ) carried 10 -- 20 years imprisonment regardless of the age difference between the victim and offender . </P>
<P> In June 2005 , a bill was proposed before the General Assembly of Georgia ( USA ) to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 . The bill failed , however . The Georgia age of consent was 14 from the Progressive era until 1995 , when a bill proposed by state Senator Steve Langford to make 16 the age of consent passed . In 2006 , following the infamous case of Genarlow Wilson ( Wilson v. State ) , aggravated child molestation was reduced to a misdemeanor with a maximum of one year in prison if the offender was under 19 , the victim was either 14 or 15 years old , and the offender is no more than 48 months older than the victim . ( Georgia penal code , 16 - 6 - 4 ) . Previously aggravated child molestation ( at any age ) carried 10 -- 20 years imprisonment regardless of the age difference between the victim and offender . </P>
what is the age of concent in ga
what is the age of concent in ga
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