Here is another example. Say there is a law that says you can't have sex with a female under the age of 16 if you are over 21. Remember what Brook SHields looked like at 14? She could have passed for being a few years older if not 21. So you have sex with her without knowledge of her true age, she even tells you falsely that she is 21. You can be convicted of having sex with a 14 year old even though you had no knowledge she was under 14 and would not have had sex with her if you knew she was under age. bummer, but a lot of laws are written like this. And the law says we all are presumed to know what the law is. Otherwise no one would be prosecuted because everyone would be defending on the basis of ignorance of the law.
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