“Those girls deserve justice”: British minister fights back tears after 15-year-olds avoid jail for rape

Two teenage girls trapped, raped and pilloried online as “whores”. It is the pitch-black reality of two separate rapes in Hampshire, England. Yet the perpetrators — themselves barely 15 years old today — do not have to go to prison. “It feels like a stone in my face,” says one of the victims. The lenient verdict sparks unprecedented anger in the United Kingdom. Even a top minister responds with a trembling voice: “You don’t want a society in which girls have to grow up like this.”

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