The gang-rape of an 18-year-old woman by boys aged 12 and 14 in Germany has led to calls for the country’s age of criminal responsibility to be lowered.
But there have been calls for that to change after a pair of 12-year-olds and three 14-year-olds were arrested in North-Rhine Westphalia on suspicion of rape.
The five suspects, which German media reported were Bulgarian, were suspended from school.
But police were unable to charge the 12-year-olds, who were sent home.
Only one of the 14-year-olds appeared before an investigating judge.
Prosecutors said he was known to police for sexual harassment on two other occasions but had not been old enough to be prosecuted. He was arrested because of concerns he could become a repeat offender, police said.
After their release, Rainer Wendt, head of the police force union, said his group had been demanding for years that the age of criminal responsibility be lowered. He argued it should be set at 12.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gang-rape-germany-m-lheim-boys-teenage-age-criminality-police-a8997636.html
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Judge who said teenager who filmed himself raping girl 'deserves leniency because he's from a good family’ gets death threats. A New Jersey judge who said a teenage boy accused of rape should get leniency because he came from a “good family” has received threats amid a ferocious backlash against his ruling. James Troiano denied a request in 2018 for a 16-year-old boy accused of raping an intoxicated 16-year-old girl to be tried as an adult.
The Monmouth County Superior Court Judge said the defendant “comes from a good family who put him into an excellent school where he was doing extremely well.”
The teenage boy was accused of recording himself sexually assaulting the 16-year-old girl and sending the video to friends with the caption “when your first time is rape.”
https://news.yahoo.com/judge-said-teenager-filmed-himself-104208663.html
But there have been calls for that to change after a pair of 12-year-olds and three 14-year-olds were arrested in North-Rhine Westphalia on suspicion of rape.
The five suspects, which German media reported were Bulgarian, were suspended from school.
But police were unable to charge the 12-year-olds, who were sent home.
Only one of the 14-year-olds appeared before an investigating judge.
Prosecutors said he was known to police for sexual harassment on two other occasions but had not been old enough to be prosecuted. He was arrested because of concerns he could become a repeat offender, police said.
After their release, Rainer Wendt, head of the police force union, said his group had been demanding for years that the age of criminal responsibility be lowered. He argued it should be set at 12.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gang-rape-germany-m-lheim-boys-teenage-age-criminality-police-a8997636.html
Another unscrupulous news
Judge who said teenager who filmed himself raping girl 'deserves leniency because he's from a good family’ gets death threats. A New Jersey judge who said a teenage boy accused of rape should get leniency because he came from a “good family” has received threats amid a ferocious backlash against his ruling. James Troiano denied a request in 2018 for a 16-year-old boy accused of raping an intoxicated 16-year-old girl to be tried as an adult.
The Monmouth County Superior Court Judge said the defendant “comes from a good family who put him into an excellent school where he was doing extremely well.”
The teenage boy was accused of recording himself sexually assaulting the 16-year-old girl and sending the video to friends with the caption “when your first time is rape.”
https://news.yahoo.com/judge-said-teenager-filmed-himself-104208663.html
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