Can anyone help me please, I want to make a (probably completely pointless) complaint to a newspaper *[Content warning: concerns child sex abuse]

In The Courier it says 'raped by an adult woman

Yes, and having re-read the Record piece, they repeat this statement.

That's not at all what the later description of the video suggests though, so again, I think the issue here is that they are using the term 'rape' without understanding the precise legal definition of the term in Scotland.

As an aside, The Courier has had previous complaints and questions about its coverage of a male sex offender's conviction.
In 2018 Katie Dolatowski was found guilty of of "voyeurism and sexual assault at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in August 2018. Dolatowski, who was 17 at the time, had attacked two young girls in supermarket toilets in Dumfermline and Kirkcaldy."

The Courier archive

The Courier [https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/819644/mum-of-supermarket-toilet-sex-assault-victim-warns-freed-attacker-could-strike-again/ archive]]

The Courier www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/832849/warning-as-transgender-sex-offender-placed-in-womens-hostel/

The Courier archive

source: transcrimeuk.com/2019/02/02/katie-dolatowski/

thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3496984-Article-in-Dundee-Courier-about-assault-of-10-year-old-girl-in-supermarket-toilets

Yes! There can be no other understanding. A 'female' rapist? Even in Scotland that still requires a penis!

The Record piece describes the video thus - "There was an indecent video of a male child, around two years old, having penetrative sex with an adult female"

Presumably they are describing the same video as the Courier, in which case I'd suggest the Courier is using the term 'rape' figuratively and not in the literal legal sense of the word.

I want to complain to the news organisation about how they refer to this person who is legally male and, as far as I can tell, has no GRC. I'm not sure exactly how to come at it, although I feel they're complicit in gaslighting on an epic scale.

The sub heading, "A teenage girl who downloaded a toddler rape video and researched murdering babies has been allowed to walk free from court." is entirely misleading and inaccurate.

I can't access the majority of the article.

Good luck. Please update us if you get a response.

You can see why in the ONS data - the number of women sentenced as rapists and pedophiles have risen quite sharply over the last few years.

The first question you have to ask is: Where all of those 'women' female?

Then - what will that do to provision of prisons, secure units; safeguarding measure in and out of school; our understanding of criminality, etc.

If the ONS data cannot be relied upon to be accurate (and it was told to shape up for teh census this year) then all sorts of sex based provisions will be skewed.

It is utterly disingenuous to say that this has no importance, is not of public interest, makes no difference. Because it does. Right now, it is making a difference to the lives of many women.

But it really is fine

We HAVE to worry about offending someone who may be claiming something we know to be untrue.

It is a shame they don’t seem to want us to worry as much about offenders harming children...

How very dare they.

As said. It was written correctly - well, correctly if you are adhering to NS’s wishes.

Just not accurately.

And things that are not accurate could be deemed as not true.

And things that are not true are lies.

But yes. Women are to blame here. Of course they are...

Yep @igivein so a male teenager watched a video of a male rapist. But both attributed to females.

Might also be worth noting that the report says the downloaded video showed a toddler being raped by a woman.
You have to have a penis to rape someone.

It is absolutely disgusting that men's crimes are being recorded as women's.

There is no defence of this.

It is concerning that this will likely be included in the statistics for women committing sexual offences like this. There are so few women committing this kind of crime that every individual male bodied person who is included in the stats will skew them. And the reason behind the increase will be obscured and impossible to analyse.

Is the natal sex of the offender really the most worrying aspect of the ruling?

One can only wonder what the ruling might have been if the natal sex had been considered.

However, with regards to the reporting, writing it correctly isn’t quite the same as writing it accurately.

And I would prefer facts to be in my paper.

A thread saying 'Tsk, CSA, isn't it appalling; it should be stopped' would have few dissenters but would be pretty pointless...

I do not agree with drug dealing grannies either.

But it is ok to tell the truth about that because it is about a woman.

There is the truth, the whole truth and nothing like the truth these days it would seem.

Their hands are all tied. Like their tongues.