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TIL about the Eliza Armstrong case where journalist W.T. Stead bought a 13-year-old girl to expose sexual slavery in Victorian England. His reports helped pass the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act raising the age of consent from 13 to 16, but Stead was jailed three months for abduction.

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