A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.

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    Someone who’s a beeb star isn’t presenting their radio show tomorrow.

    Makes you wonder.

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    So they finally cought up to gordon the gopher huh?

    About bloody time.

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      Age of consent is 16 but I think both parties need be 18+ for sharing explicit selfies.

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        Which is a pretty retarded law if you think about it.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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      As with Philip Scholfield, there is such a disparity in age and power that it becomes very iffy. I’m not sure there’s anything illegal going on but it’s morally problematic.

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        The problem with “moral” problems is, who sets the morals? The church has been setting them for years, but they are now regarded as outdated and, to be frank, not a shining example of good “morality”.

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    I don’t mind paying a licence fee if it goes towards Sir David etc. But you’ve got to question wages that allow ‘tens of thousands’ to be splashed (oo-er) in only three years.

    And BBC wonder why people complain about them.

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    tens of thousands of pounds? another meganonce at the bbc