<P> In 2007 in Kentucky Representative JR Gray sponsored legislation in the state legislature that passed making it a felony for a teacher to have sex with a student under the age of 18 . He also discussed the possibility of raising the age of consent from 16 to 18 but a bill was not produced for that . </P> <P> In 2008 a bill was proposed in the Missouri legislature to raise the age of consent from 17 to 18 . It was sponsored by Representative Stanley Cox . </P> <P> In South Carolina in 2007 a bill was proposed before the legislature to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 . It did not succeed . </P> <P> Prior to 1981 Wisconsin had an exception to the law that allowed adults who were guilty of sex with minors 15 or older to use as a defense that the victim understood the nature of the sexual act, but there was a rebuttable presumption in Wisconsin that minors under the age of 18 were not capable of informed consent to sex, but as stated, this could be argued against by the defendant in the court of law if the minor was 15 years of age or older . In 1981 the age of consent was lowered from 18 to 16 in Wisconsin, but at the same time it was made an automatic felony to have sex with anyone under 16, informed consent for a 15 - year - old was no longer a defense an adult defendant could use in court . In 1983 the age of consent in Wisconsin was raised from 16 to 18, under the new law sex with a minor 16 or older carried the lesser penalty of a class a misdemeanor . A marital exception was included in the law for an adult who was married to a minor 16 or older, but no close - in - age exception was . </P>

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