No big deal

Speaking of the fashion for treating female people like dirt

A girl who was raped by two teenage boys has told the BBC that a judge’s decision to spare them jail sentences was like a “rock straight in my face”.

Speaking exclusively to Laura Kuenssberg, the girl, now 16, said: “What was the point in putting me through that?”

The girl, who spoke anonymously alongside her family, said the judge’s decision “almost made it seem as if what the boys did was not OK, but it was OK in the eyes of the law because they were still children”.

The attorney general is to review the youth rehabilitation order sentences given by Judge Nicholas Rowland, who had said on Thursday he wanted to avoid “criminalising” the “very young” boys.

Hey. They are old enough to rape a girl. That is, in fact, a crime, and not a remote or abstract crime but a very physical, up close and personal, damaging to the victim crime. Can you imagine wanting to torture a baby to death? Rape should be like that – unimaginable.

The attorney general is to review the youth rehabilitation order sentences given by Judge Nicholas Rowland, who had said on Thursday he wanted to avoid “criminalising” the “very young” boys.

Bro, they criminalized themselves. And they’re not so very young that they didn’t know what rape is, or how to go about it, or were incapable of it. Also what about the girl?

The two defendants, who are now 15, were also convicted of attacking a second victim, who was raped in a field in January 2025. Another boy, now 14, was also convicted for his involvement in the second attack.

The boys filmed the rapes on their phones and later shared some of the footage online.

But hey. We don’t want to make them unhappy, so let’s not send them to jail at all.

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  1. iknklast Avatar

    Some days I just wish the world would go away. Today is one of those days.

    The fact that these boys filmed the rape, encouraged each other to degrade the victim, then posted it on the web and claimed it was consensual shows that they know enough to know what they were doing, and that it was not a proper way to act. They were enjoying doing something ‘rebellious’ (as if abusing women and girls could in any way seem rebellious, when so many men are out there doing it – this one is just a couple of degrees higher than some of the other abuses).

    Meanwhile, I still hear from male friends, and some writers and such, how good we have it compared to the poor men who have to work to support us, and have to watch their every motion in case we decide we want to get them in trouble…and we get to wear more colors! (I’ve heard EVERY ONE of those arguments, over and over and over…even from men who had wives working as hard as they did to support the family.)

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