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Old 29-06-07, 15:22
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Default Re: Rape of girl, 11. Man charged

This is the report where the judge said she looked 16. It also says in here that she approached the men.

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Judge Hall said: "It is an absolute crime because she was only 10.
"In my experience this has been the most difficult sentencing exercise I have ever had to decide on. The circumstances in this case are exceptional.
"It is quite clear she is a very disturbed child and a very needy child and she is a sexually precocious child. She liked to dress provocatively.
"Did she look like she was 10? Certainly not. She looked 16, that was a matter that was accepted."

I just think that there was far more to this whole story than we can ever know from reading the newspapers. The only people who can perhaps understand are those who were on the jury who presumably did get to see the child.

Both of the men involved are on the sex offenders register so it isn't as if they have not received punishment.

'Kidscape' would do well to look at the 'care' this child has been receiving and ask how she came to be so streetwise at such a young age. She has been in care since the age of 4.
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