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Why no jail sentence for sexual assault on a 13 year old!

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Crazyworldwelivein · 05/10/2023 01:26

I am totally disgusted by the lack of a jail sentence, I'm sure if the sexual assault had been perpetrated by a man, then there would have been a jail sentence.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12591189/amp/Drunk-dental-receptionist-groped-13-year-old-boy.html

Drunk dental receptionist who groped schoolboy, 13, and told him she wanted to 'ride him till morning' before exposing herself and waking up 'remembering nothing' after a white wine binge is spared jail.

Berry sat between the two boys and began stroking the 13-year-old's genitals over his clothing before offering him sex and saying she would 'ride you till morning'.

As the shocked youngster and his friend got up to leave, she pulled down her trousers and exposed herself before passing out in a drunken stupor.
The two boys took videos of Berry before getting up to leave. She was identified after leaving her bank card and phone on the bench.

The 13-year-old, who has ADHD, said he was so traumatised by the encounter that he tried to take his own life.

Drunk dental receptionist who groped a 13-year-old boy spared jail

Jade Berry, 27, binged on white wine before approaching the boy and his friend at Rivacre Valley Country Park in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire in October 2022.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12591189/amp/Drunk-dental-receptionist-groped-13-year-old-boy.html

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CyberCritical · 05/10/2023 12:07

I think that yes she should have received a stronger punishment because her actions were disgusting and perverted and any adult who sexually abuses a child should rot.

Her sentence was not weak because she's a woman though, in general we do not punish sexual abusers in this country. Male, female, whatever identity has been assumed, we either do not prosecute or the farce of prosecution results in a sex criminal being allowed to wander about doing what they want knowing that it's unlikely they'll ever actually have any repercussions.

And then to add insult to injustice you get all the smarmy shitheads blaming victims for not coming forward, when the victims know that if they had, nothing would have been done.

Crazyworldwelivein · 05/10/2023 12:14

NoGNoDNoClue · 05/10/2023 11:36

Ignore me. I read it as a 21 year old did the attached.

Yes, the sicko was 17 at the time of the sick criminal offensive, not an adult in the eyes of the law compared with the sicko woman in the article

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whatkatydid2013 · 05/10/2023 12:20

Crazyworldwelivein · 05/10/2023 07:35

Thank you for your reply, do you have a link to that, so that I can read further please.

As a category 2 is a prison sentence 1 to 4 years.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-court/item/sexual-assault/

it would likely be under 3B. The aggravating factors to make it into the A side wouldn’t apply. You could argue factors for 1 (severe psychological harm) or 2 (him being so young making him more vulnerable). Regardless sexual assault isn’t taken as seriously as it should be and the sentence seems within the realms of normal vs it being light because the perpetrator was a woman.
Look at the theft ones by comparison and consider what we value most as a society

Sexual assault – Sentencing

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-court/item/sexual-assault/

Quartz2208 · 11/10/2023 17:03

Well the comparison with the 17 year old (it was being under 25 that was the issue) is moot as his conviction has been quashed

Blackbyrd · 11/10/2023 17:15

I sincerely hope someone pulverises the smarmy, grinning idiot very, very soon. Complete lack of shame or remorse

PosterBoy · 11/10/2023 17:29

Absolutely disgraceful!

midnitghtgraveyard · 11/10/2023 17:55

I knew of a man 29YO with a criminal record that got 20 months in prison got released after 11 months
for having underage sex with a 14 year old.
He came out and he is now living with this now woman 8 years on with kids.

Now a homeless man from our city got 4 years for shoplifting.
He had no criminal record either.
This was at the same court in the same year.
Up roar with the local papers.
The system is messed up.

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