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Girl raped by boys spared jail tells BBC judge's decision was like 'rock in my face'
Key takeaways
- Speaking exclusively to Laura Kuenssberg, the girl, now 16, said: 'What was the point in putting me through that?"
- The girl, who spoke anonymously alongside her family, said the judge's decision "almost made it seem as if what the boys did was not OK, but it was OK in the eyes of the law because they were still children".
- The attorney general is to review the sentence given by Judge Nicholas Rowland, who had said on Thursday he wanted to avoid "criminalising" the "very young" boys.
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Laura Kuenssberg Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg CPSOne of the girls was attacked in an underpass beside the River Avon A girl who was raped by two teenage boys has told the BBC that a judge's decision to spare them jail sentences was like a "rock straight in my face".
Speaking exclusively to Laura Kuenssberg, the girl, now 16, said: 'What was the point in putting me through that?"
The girl, who spoke anonymously alongside her family, said the judge's decision "almost made it seem as if what the boys did was not OK, but it was OK in the eyes of the law because they were still children".
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