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This crime involved three teen boys from the "traveller" community, referring to Gypsy migrants.
From the Daily Mail:
Two 14-year-old boys targeted one of their victims, 15, on Snapchat before luring her to an underpass where they laughed and filmed themselves as they raped her.
Two months later the pair, this time joined by a third boy aged just 13, gang-raped a second schoolgirl at knifepoint while again recording the attack on their phones as they goaded each other to degrade her further.
Sane human beings know these little monsters deserve the most severe punishment available. This being in the UK, however, means they don't even go to jail.
The trio - all from the traveller community - were convicted of rape in March following a five-week trial, with the two older boys also found guilty of taking indecent images of a child, relating to the recordings they made of their attacks.
But all three defendants were today handed youth rehabilitation orders instead of jail sentences during a hearing at Southampton Crown Court - as a judge told them 'none of you need to go to prison'.
The judge handed down "rehabilitation sentences" for the three gypsy perpetrators while somehow excusing their despicable actions.
He said the boys are 'very young', had low intelligence, a 'limited understanding of consent' and were susceptible to 'peer pressure'.
Let's review how "low intelligence" these boys truly are.
The first rape happened in November 2024, when one of the boys asked the victim to hang out with him on Snapchat. They had a date in the quiet town of Fordingbridge before the boy took her to the River Avon. There, his two friends showed up as part of their premeditated plan. Two of the boys raped her for 90 minutes.
She said her tormentors 'kept switching', taking turns to abuse her, and laughing at her as they filmed each other.
A quick thought:
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The second girl was raped in January 2025. The three teen boys watched her having an argument with a friend in town and asked her to come hang out with them. Though they are apparently stupid, according to the judge, they managed to mark their target, be suave enough to lower her guard - even getting her to ditch the AirTag her mom had given her for safety! - and intelligent enough to know exactly where they could take her to rape her.
...the boys threatened to kill her if she tried to run away as they marched her to a field behind Fordingbridge Recreation Centre.
She would later describe how terrified she had been by these threats, which became more credible when she realised that one of the two older boys was carrying a knife, and as she was led away to the field away from any potential help from others.
He then used it to cut holes in her clothing to facilitate the ensuing attack.
Again, the judge says these boys are too stupid to understand what they were doing as they crafted elaborate, violent plans to gang-rape girls.
Oh, and did I mention that the judge praised the boys for being on their best behavior in court?
The judge also praised the boys for their conduct during the trial, saying, 'I think of you as very young and none of you have been in any big trouble before.'
'You have all done very well with the restrictions put in place throughout the trial.'
Yes, he said that.
There's a saying about "the course of human events" that makes me wonder:
When are the Huckleberries going to step up?
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