Three teenage boys received youth rehabilitation orders for raping two girls in separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire. One case involved a 15-year-old girl raped by two 14-year-old defendants. The other involved a 14-year-old girl threatened with a knife, with two boys taking turns to rape her while others encouraged and filmed the assaults. Jess Phillips condemned the sentences as unduly lenient, saying they send a bad message and fail to reflect the wider public interest. Hampshire police and crime commissioner Donna Jones echoed the concern and offered support to the victims’ families if they chose to appeal. The government said it had received multiple requests to review the sentences.
"MP Jess Phillips condemned the non-custodial sentences given to three teenage boys for the rape of two girls as unduly lenient. Phillips, who was the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls before resigning this month, said that giving the boys youth rehabilitation orders sent a bad message. The government said it had received multiple requests for the sentences to be reviewed."
"In the first attack a 15-year-old girl was raped by two of the defendants, both aged 14 at the time. In the second assault, the three boys threatened a 14-year-old girl with a knife and two of them took it in turns to rape her while the others encouraged the offending and filmed the assaults. On Thursday, at Southampton crown court, two boys, both 15, were each sentenced to a three-year youth rehabilitation order and made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS)."
"Phillips told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: It seems unduly lenient to me and has wider public interest beyond just the case itself in the message that it sends. For those young women, going through a rape trial like this will not have been a simple thing to do, it will have been many, many months, if not years, to achieve any sort of justice, and I am afraid to say it sends a bad message. These young people, it seems, were essentially raping for content in order to put it on social media and share it to their friends, gloating about raping these poor young women."
"Her criticisms of the sentences were echoed by the Hampshire police and crime commissioner, Donna Jones, who offered to support the families of the victims if they wished to appeal against them. This is an extremely disturbing case, said Jones. I'm deeply concerned these boys felt they could carry out such terrifying acts and share them onlin"
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