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The 'super-ministry' building in Tallinn, home of the finance ministry and several others. Source: Siim Lõvi /ERR
The Ministry of Justice has received input from various institutions and organizations on increasing the age of consent in Estonia from the current 14, to 16, as is the case in many European countries. Additionally, some organizations and interest groups also support a maximum age gap of three years, others call for five, while the Prosecutor's Office supports a 10-year age difference, between two partners.
The recommendations follow several high-profile sex abuse cases involving minors under the law (i.e. younger than 18) who are or were at the time of the offenses 14 or over, i.e. above the age of consent, as opposed to cases of outright pedophilia, in a legal sense.