May 25, 2026 01:50 AM
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Two girls, then aged 15 and 14, were raped in separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in November 2024 and January 2025, by two 14-year-olds. Another boy, then 13, was also convicted for his involvement in the second attack.
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At a sentencing hearing for the boys on Thursday, Judge Nicholas Rowland said he wanted to "avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily".
Instead, the boys were given Youth Rehabilitation Orders (YROs) - community sentences given to children, which can include unpaid work, curfews or a requirement to undertake treatment.
But one of their victims told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the decision was like a "rock straight in my face".
The girl, now 16, said it "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".
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- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c332ljdkd81o
Sounds like Sharia law.
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