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While we have no proof of what she looks like, it still does not excuse the men who abused this girl. And the judge made it sound like she was the author of her own fate. And don't all paedophiles cite the fact that the child 'wanted it'........meaning sex.

The judge even called the child a young woman....at 10 years of age, how can you be a young woman? This is the same judge who in another case, suggested that the perpetrator buy his victim a new bike as some sort of compensation. Doesn't he realise that these children are scarred forever by the actions of the men involved? That they may never learn to form normal relationships? I wonder if this judge is married and has children. I wonder if the judge had been female, would the sentence have been the same.

This 10 year old is a vulnerable child......even if she looks older, she has been in care since the age of 4 and has no-one to stand her corner.
The social team who are supposed to be looking after her interests should be charged with negligence and child abuse by association.
Children should be protected from men like these, men who use children for their sexual gratification regardless of what common sense might tell them.
In the news story that I read there was nothing about the prosecution agreeing that the girl looked 16...just that she looked older than 10.