Girl, eight, 'raped by boys aged ten'

[Squilliam]

Slimebeast said:

Squilliam said:

No.

Noone can argue successfully that 10 year old boys are fully aware of the consequences of their actions. Theres nothing to gain from punishing these kids. At this point you can't argue that its to prevent it from happening again, its not going to make the girls life any better and its very doubtful that they will even be able to get a conviction due to diminished legal responsibility. I.E. They aren't expected to know any better.

Of course they weren't fully aware of the consequences (and who is, really?) but they certainly knew they were doing something very wrong.

It's very important to punish them hard.

How do you know that they knew they were doing something wrong? Even if they knew it was wrong they still have greatly diminished responsibility due to their age. By attempting to punish the boys any lessons or understanding about why this happened are lost in a legal process. Its impossible to truely know why it happened because they will be told by lawyers to deny everything so we will probably never understand why this rape happened in the first place.

Further still I dislike this because if it can be argued that a 10 year old can rape then im certain its going to be used by pedophiles to justify that 10 year olds can give consent.