A German court has ruled that the parents of a 15-year-old girl cannot prevent her from having a sexual relationship with her 47-year-old uncle, according to reports.
The teenager, named only as Josephine due to German privacy laws, made headlines when she ran away with her uncle at the age of 14.
When the couple was discovered in France by police, Josephine said she had chosen to run away and was in live with the older man, who was her uncle by marriage.
Josephine's parents reportedly sought a court order to prevent her from being in contact with her uncle on the grounds that it put her welfare at risk.
But the teenager challenged the order and won, with the court ruling that at 14 her own wishes must be taken into account, according to the Telegraph.
The judge reportedly ruled that Josephine risked “serious damage in her social-emotional and mental development” if she was prevented from further contact with the uncle, but added that the decision in no way amounted to an endorsement or approval of the relationship.
Something tells me that this girl was in no position to disagree with said uncle in the first place. Maybe it's because the uncle is basically an authority figure and intimidated the girl to not only run away from her parents (who filed the court order) but also intimidated her into challenging said court order.
No fourteen year old has the mental capacity to be able to make decisions like this and she's putting herself at massive risk with this kind of relationship, which will no doubt affect her views on men and on relationships. The fact that the parents had sought to intervene to prevent her from seeing this "man" shows that there was an element of danger about this and therefore the courts should have sided with the parents.
So what do we think NSG?
