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As far as I'm aware buying stolen property isn't a strict liability crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal) https://en.wikipedia.org/w

• koonsolo 7y ago
  That is seriously fucked up. From that wikipedia article: > a pharmacist supplied drugs to a patient who presented a forged doctor's prescription, but was convicted even though the House of Lords accepted that the pharmacist was blameless. > a 15-year-old boy was convicted of statutory rape of a child under 13, a crime under Section 5 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The prosecution accepted the boy's claim that he had believed the 12-year-old girl to be 15, but he was nevertheless sentenced to 12 months' detention. When I read this, I'm very happy to live in a more sane part of the world.