Teen Rape Victim Hits Out at Soft Judge After Attackers Spared Jail

The British government is reviewing the ‘Youth Rehabilitation Order’ sentences given to two teenage rapists by a judge who said he didn’t want to “criminalise” the perpetrators.

Two 15-year-old boys were spared jail sentences by a British court last week, prompting one of their victims to come forward and question what the point of going to court at all had been, calling the soft-touch sentence akin to being struck in the face.

The unnamed girl, who was 15-years-old at the time of the November 2024 attack, has now told British state broadcaster the BBC that going through the process of reporting her attack to police and reliving it in detail for the court case had been traumatising. The perpetrators, who were also found guilty of a second gang rape of a teenage girl that took place in the same town at a playing fields in January 2025, were