Two 10 year olds charged with rape

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Questions have been raised about the way children are dealt with by the criminal justice system after two young boys were convicted of attempted rape.

The NSPCC also raised concerns that the eight-year-old victim was too young to cope with cross-examination.

The boys have been placed on the sex offenders register ahead of sentencing later. Both were cleared of rape.

The girl had alleged she was raped in a field near her west London home in October 2009.
The boys, who were both 10 at the time and cannot be named, had each denied two charges of rape and two of attempted rape of a child under 13.
Prosecutors told the trial that the boys had approached the girl when she was playing with a friend.

The jury heard that she was taken to a block of flats, a bin shed and a field.
The girl's mother told the court she had found her daughter with the boys near a field after another child said the pair were hurting her.
But barristers for the boys, among the youngest to be prosecuted for rape, said the pair had only been playing a game like doctors and nurses.
When she was cross-examined earlier in the trial, the eight-year-old told the court she had lied to her mother about what had happened because she had been "naughty" and was worried she would not get any sweets.

Former director of public prosecutions Sir Ken MacDonald, writing in the Times, said the trial had been "a spectacle that has no place in an intelligent society".

"I think it reflects horribly on our whole system, that a case like this with children should be tried in this way.
"It should have been held in camera with no publicity at all. The whole thing is horrific."
"In camera" is a legal term for cases which are held in a judge's private chambers, from which the press and public are excluded.
NSPCC lawyer Barbara Esam said children often struggled to cope with cross-examination, and in particular, with leading questions, used by barristers to steer those being quizzed.
"Children find these very difficult to deal with, particularly what we call 'tag questions', where you say, 'You went to his house, didn't you?'
"A child finds that difficult to not answer 'yes'."

"A lot of children may know that to kill a three-year-old with an iron bar or to drop concrete on a child is wrong, but proper sexual awareness only comes with greater maturity."

"That is not to indicate that there is anything wrong, but we should do everything we can to improve how we deal with these things by looking at the lessons that we can learn."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8702365.stm
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This is just crazy....how can a 10 year old know anything about rape?

[anilweyne]

I don't know what DAANYEER would post tomorrow!
Leave those stuff for Daanyeer please.

[IRONm@N]

How do 10yrs old rape someone? its kiddy sex, and they should just be beaten and adviced not to do again, and the girl should be beaten and told not to go out and dress approprietly. end of story.
All these rape charge, lawyers, DNA testing, putting them on sex offender list, will label them for life, and make them career crimminals with no future.

[Murax]

Wtf how is a ten year old able to e heroverpower a girl, throw her down take her clothes off, penetrate her and penetrate her hard enough to leave bruises all in a public place? Sound exremely far fetched

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When I was around their age I was humping schools girls at the monkey bars lol...I didnt know about the concept of sexual intercourse but that anything pressed against my jr. felt good. That's exactly what these children were experiencing and I doubt the little girl was the victim too.

[Basra-]

"Kiddy sex" ironman u r hilarious.