When three teenage boys were convicted over the rapes of two girls only two months apart, their young victims anticipated custodial sentences. Instead, they listened as Judge Nicholas Rowland praised the defendants’ behaviour during the trial.
The judge told two 15-year-olds, who filmed the rapes in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, that they had “done very well” with the restrictions put in place throughout the trial, as he sentenced them to youth rehabilitation orders (YROs).
Well after all, it was only a couple of girls. Do girls even have thoughts and feelings? Do girls even matter?
Rowland said he wanted to “avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”, telling the defendants: “I have to remember that you are not small adults.”
And obviously it’s not the slightest bit important to discourage male people from raping female people, because female people don’t matter in the first place. This is one reason it’s not at all necessary to punish male people for shoving their penises into women who are struggling to escape.
It has emerged that Rowland, one of Britain’s most experienced criminal trial judges, was challenged by the government last year for an “unduly lenient” sentence in another violent sex case.
Ellie Reeves, the solicitor-general, appealed against the sentence handed to Joshua Blachford, a restaurant manager, who admitted raping a colleague. Rowland told Blachford that the “numerous testimonials” from his friends and family “show a wholly different side to you” before jailing him for three years and nine months.
It’s so sweet when men see the good side of other men. It would be terrible to let those men who have good sides, however small, suffer any serious consequences for merely raping some stupid bitch.
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