UK Boy Rapist Gets Life (12 year old with severe learning difficulties)

[truthpusher]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13309410,00.html

BOY RAPIST GETS LIFE
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Sky News
Last Updated: 15:29 UK, Friday March 11, 2005
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A 12-year-old boy has been detained for life by a judge at Teesside Crown Court for raping his teacher at a special needs centre.

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The stocky youngster, who is just 5ft 3in tall and has severe learning difficulties, admitted at an earlier hearing raping the teacher at the centre in County Durham in November last year, and the theft of her car.

At Teesside Crown Court, Mr Justice Grigson ordered the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, be detained for life.

Sentencing the cropped-haired boy, the judge said: "These problems are not of your own making but it is plain that until these problems are dealt with you are very likely to commit other offences, other offences as serious as this, so the public has to be properly protected until such time as your problems have been assisted."

John Evans, defending, said his client had been the victim of sexual and physical abuse from a very young age.

complete story:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13309410,00.html

[pansypoo53219]

1. highly unlikely

that therapy could ever work. and highly unlikely that the boy can control himself.
i have no problem with this.
of course i would like the same with anybody who rapes.

[Mabus]

2. Other juveniles who have been "detained for life"

don't end up doing life. For example:

The three teenage friends stole two scythes from a churchyard before attacking Terry Hurst, 17, as he slept.
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All three were ordered to be detained for life. Sawdon was given a minimum sentence of 15 years and James and Peeters a minimum of 13 years each.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/11/ngang11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/03/11/ixhome.html

In other coverage of the same story they acknowledge that a release date will be set.
A boy of 12 who raped his teacher during a one-to-one lesson was ordered to be detained for life yesterday. He was said to remain a risk to the public and will be on the sex offenders' register for life. No date for his possible release was set.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/12/nrape12.xml