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WTF?! Serial rapist (victim was 13 yrs old) receives sentence of 270 hours of unpaid work??

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Furyistoomild · 17/04/2023 18:32

What the hell is going on in Scotland? This girl has been raped multiple times, completely traumatised and he gets a couple of hundred hours of unpaid work? How on earth is this just? Women in Scotland must be so afraid right now.

Teenager living in fear after rapist Sean Hogg walked free https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65298929

Sean Hogg outside the High Court in Glasgow

Teenager living in fear after rapist Sean Hogg walked free

Due to new sentencing guidelines Sean Hogg was given community payback for raping a 13-year-old.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65298929

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pickledandpuzzled · 18/04/2023 11:39

And how do we ensure such 'mistakes' don't happen, if we don't deal appropriately with people who make such mistakes?

How are they to understand the severity and impact of what they have done, if there's no punishment?

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Furyistoomild · 18/04/2023 11:18

Yes absolutely the 'young men just made a silly mistake, we mustn't ruin their lives for it' rhetoric is still live and kicking. Young women have been traumatised and it will impact the rest of their lives but that bit is irrelevant. I just despair.

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Believerinbiology · 18/04/2023 10:18

Such a slap in the face for that girl. To have gone through the trauma oof going to court, him to be found guilty but still have no semblance of justice. Time and again we here from judges that the lives of young men should not be ruined for a mistake/horseplay/immaturity (I don't think any of these words are appropriate but they are words judges have used to describe male violence against girls) with not a second of concern shown for their victims whose lives have been torn apart.

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Furyistoomild · 18/04/2023 09:08

BTW I do recognise there are male rape victims but obvs the statistics are that the vast majority of rape victims are women.

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Furyistoomild · 18/04/2023 09:07

Exactly! As it says in that article - JKR is right, rapists will think the first one is free.

Young rapists should be criminalised and punished so that they don’t continue to be rapists. That’s the idea of justice as far as I understand it.

Again the law minimises violent crime against women. When will it ever change? <sigh>

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Felix125 · 18/04/2023 07:58

Madness - the theory is that they don't want to criminalise younger people, so to allow them to not ruin their life at an early age.

Its ok for minor theft offences or criminal damage (graffiti) etc - but not for this

The Scottish judge has taken this as being the case for all offences and clearly its wrong.

It causes people to lose faith in the judicial system even more, less victims/survivors will come forward. He should have received a custodial sentence.

As I say - Madness!!!!!

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