A teenager’s parents have been fined €3,000 by a court in Bavaria for not stopping their 13-year-old daughter having sex with her boyfriend, TheLocal.de reported.

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The girl was 13 when she slept with her 16-year-old boyfriend and had talked about it with her parents beforehand.

Her parents told the court in Viechtach, Bavaria, on Monday that they had tried to talk her out of it but could not convince her.

The mother said she was unaware that sex under the age of consent, which is 14 in Germany, was a criminal offence. “You can’t stop hormones,” she said.

A spokeswoman for the local prosecutor’s office said they had never come across a similar case.

The Passauer Neue Presse reported that the case only came to light when the boyfriend appeared in court over a separate matter.

The parents avoided a criminal record.