Did Joey....


..ever find out that Tessa was pregnant? Also, he was 19 and I am sure she was under 18. Wouldn't that have been statutory rape?

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Only if she reported it, I guess..Plus, depends on the law in Toronto. Every place is different

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14 is legal age of consent in Canada (for the time being).

Even still, with the new law that should come into effect soon, where the age will be raised to 16, there will be a buffer zone of five years, meaning that a 19 year old would be able to have sex with a consenting 14 year old.

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actually tessa was only one year younger than joey and no she never told him, cause she was going to have an abortion.

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What country are you in?
18 is when you are considered an adult in Canada and US.
You can drink, play lottery, leave your parents, buy porn, ...
Some parts of Canada and US, it might be 21 for the drinking part.

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in canada most of it the legal drinking age is 19. same for the lottery.
18 you can get porn.
And i think you are allowed to leave home at 16.

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I'm in Ontario. 16 is the age of consent here.

19 is the drinking age.

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No, I don't think he never found out she was pregnant. It is never referenced, and I think if he did know he would have brought it up during the scene in Next Gen where he tells Craig the Tessa Campinelli story when Craig comes to him for help with his Manny/Ashley problem if he knew.

And I'm pretty sure the age of consent in Canada is 16.

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you can (or could) leave home at 16 - remember michelle moved out for her 16th birthday because it was "legal now"

the other stuff ive got no idea cause i'm from australia! but i think tessa was only a year younger than joey. they were in the same year at school (but joey would be older because he stayed down).

i guess tehcnically we dont know what happened with tessa, but it's assumed that yeah she had the abortion and her and joey never spoke again.

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Joey never slept with her after he turned 19.

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Posting on an insanely old thread again, but I was just thinking about this the other day, and I really wish that Tessa would have eventually told him. He apologized to Caitlin for how he treated her, but he treated Tessa just as bad. She was under the impression he had broken up with Caitlin. I feel like adult Joey would have been deeply sorry and at least expressed so if he was aware he'd gotten her pregnant.

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