Rapists jailed for just 40 months after judge says 11-year-old victim was 'willing'

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story here.

"Judge David Farrell QC jailed them both for just 40 months each as he accepted the claim that she was willing and looked "at least" 14."

Funny, but I thought 14 was still under the age of consent for sex with a 21 year old man, quite apart from the fact that how a girl or woman "looks" should NEVER be a justification for rape, full stop.

I despair.

Unfortnuately, the only journalist I know works in the Greek media. I have just emailled her to ask if she has any contacts in the British press.

i'd explain it as we're back under tory rule and the media are on the evils of the poor feeding frenzy now.

I don't understand either why the hell this isn't all over the papers as a huge story, it is absolutely revolting.

Is anyone on twitter who could tweet journos?

What on earth can we do?

I follow Caitlin Moran on twitter - can we all tweet her? This morning she retweeted this shocking report on sexual harassment in the gaming world

Go for it, nigella. I wish I could do twitter.

well I've only been using it for a week and can hardly get my head around how to tweet links! Can anyone on here talk me through it? (I actually tried to do it last night TBH and gave up as I thought I could end up tweeting a load of nonsense by accident)

I have no idea Nigella. I have got a very moribund twitter account but it is set up to follow Janice Turner and Caitlin Moran so I think will tweet them.

I can't do retweets or owt like that.

I will ask my dd for help

Retweets are easy - you just press Retweet! But we would want CM or whoever to retweet. something about this case. But I don't know how to condense this case into a catchy re-tweetable tweet, with a link to the actual article etc. I've looked on the "how to use twitter" threads here in talk archives but still no joy. GetOrf if you are able to, with help from DD,please do!
Heard of "early adopters"?? I'm not one of 'em!!

great idea to contact some journos, perhaps one or two of them will actually talk about it.

The Sun covered it today.

And the Daily Mail. The Mirror has the story up as well. Dunno what took them all so long.

oops sorry Mail story is from the 22nd. Wonder whether the Sun's was as well but they just stick today's date on the site (and carefully leave it off the actual story).

oops Sun was 21st Feb - I must go to bed my brain has clearly stopped working!

Bump. Please write.

Is there a governing body for judges and professional competence?

It's absolutely disgusting. In this day and age. 11 year old is an absolute child no matter how they look. I can't believe it.

This judge needs to be investigated. Are they under no scrutiny?

Thanks for this thread, I hadn't heard about this story - the poor girl. I've just emailed my MP asking him to raise the matter with the AG and Justice Minister.

Bumping. Sickened and frightened by this.

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Just signed the petition.

I emailed my MP about this very late last night & he replied at 8.30 this morning saying he completely agreed & was happy to raise the matter with the Secretary of State! Am very pleased that he listened and responded so quickly.

Glad to hear it, timtamb.

well done CavemanDave and that's fantastic timtam!
Anyone know how to get this tweeted and retweeted?