It turns out the "terrifying ordeal" is the UK's criminal justice system, where law enforcement officials are playing Russian roulette with the callow defendants. The case depends on the literally incredible testimony of an eight-year-old girl who has admitted that she lied, so why on earth is the trial permitted to continue? Is the prosecution just hoping to "get lucky" and score a couple of convictions? Make an example of these men-in-waiting as a warning for any male who might think twice about abusing his undeserved male privilege by disrespecting a female?
Quite seriously, how can this be considered "justice" in any sense of the word?
(Thanks to Duncan, and SteveUK)
Eight-Year-Old Says She Lied About Being Raped
(May 13) -- An 8-year-old girl who said she had been raped by two 10-year-old boys admitted in court today that she had lied because she didn't want her mother to know she'd been "naughty" by willingly pulling down her underpants.
In answer to a question from the judge in England's highest criminal court, the girl said she was worried that if her mother had known, she wouldn't get the candy she wanted, the U.K.'s Press Association reported.
She told a defense lawyer that the boys had exposed themselves and that she voluntarily slipped down her panties.
"Did you ever tell your mum it was not you, but it was [the boys] who took your knickers down?" she was asked by a lawyer for one of the boys, Linda Strudwick. "You didn't want your mum to think you had been naughty?"
The girl, who was hidden from view behind a screen, replied, "Yeah."
At the Old Bailey courtroom today, a filmed interview by two specially trained police officers showed the girl wiping away tears as she said the boys took her from one location to another before raping her in a field in west London.
"They said if I didn't pull down my pants" the boys wouldn't return the scooter they'd taken away from her, the jury was told.
The boys, now 10 and 11, are believed to be among the youngest ever to be charged with rape in England, where 10-year-olds can be tried as adults in criminal cases. Both boys, who sat in court with their mothers and lawyers, deny the charges of rape and attempted rape.
In deference to the age of all involved, the judge and the lawyers have dispensed with their usual wigs and gowns, and the judge even came down from his usual high bench to a lower seat.
The court sat in silence as the girl's taped testimony was played, which included explicit details but didn't mention the word "rape." Later, through a video link, she appeared in an anteroom at the court holding a juice bottle, which the judge asked her to put down so he could hear what she said.
The lawyer for the prosecution, Rosina Cottage, said the girl's mother went to the field to find her and was told that one of the boys "was hurting her."
Asked what had happened, "they all said nothing," Cottage said, although the 8-year-old later told her mother, and the police were called, according to The Times of London. The girl was later taken to the hospital with stomach pains, and scratches to the stomach were found, the court heard.
"Together they took her to different locations near where they lived in order to find a sufficiently secluded spot to assault her," Cottage told the jury, the Guardian reported. "When they did, they pulled down her pants and helped each other to penetrate her."
An Earlier Story -- Before She Admitted The Rape Never Occurred:
Girl, 8, ‘was raped by two 10-year-old boys’
Two young boys lured an eight-year-old girl to a field and helped each other rape her, a court has heard.
The ten-year-olds took the alleged victim to a series of locations where they exposed themselves before carrying out the attack, it was claimed.
The defendants, who are among the youngest people to be charged with rape in this country, are said to have gone up to the girl while she played with a friend.
They then took her to flats where they exposed themselves and pulled down her underwear, the jury was told.
‘Then we went into the lift and they did it again,’ the girl said in a police interview played in court.
‘Then they took me and my friend downstairs to the bin shed and they put the bins near the entrance so we couldn’t get out.’
The boys exposed themselves to her again before the girl was taken to a field and raped, it was claimed. Asked what she was thinking about during the alleged rape, the girl said in the interview: ‘I thought I could go down the shops with my mum and get some sweets.’
The attack is said to have taken place in Hayes, west London, in October last year. None of the children in the case can be named for legal reasons.
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Its not justice..its perversion that has eaten the soul of justice.
False Rape acussations "Empower" the perverts in both the U.S., and UK. and now that Gender/Raunch perverts are the dominant power over our legal system, they will not forfeit their "Empowerment" by any such silly distractions as the truth.
It's continuing because these morons believe whatever they want, whenever they want, regardless of evidence. This girl is obviously a lying phony who can cry when she wants to and then take it back after she's gotten her candy.
It's sickening that the only thing potentially saving these boys is a sudden attack of conscience from a false rape accuser.
"False Rape acussations...."
accusations has two "c's" and one "s".
I am quite sure that soon, feminist mothers will be able to claim that their unborn babies have raped them.
In reality it was a simple "you show me yours and I'll show you mine", which ain't either new or rare.
Hell I can remember doing it with the girl next door when we were both 8.
When I first read about this, it didn't seem to have a ring of truth to it. Why they persued a case is beyond me, medical evidence would have shown no rape took place. And now truth is out and she admitted it was a lie, why are they continuing with the trial? These people are sick and seem to have a delight is pouring over salacious details whether true or false.
I feel like somebody put words in that little girl's mouth...her mother, perhaps, should be the one facing charges of false accusation.
To ruin any child's life with lies like this is disgusting.
She's only eight. Probably hasn't even begun to menstruate yet. Wouldn't a medical exam checking to see if her hymen was ripped or whatever be enough evidence to prove that none of this happened? Rather than just going by what the girl was told to say(?)/said?
blegh. those poor kids...
No, because that would make sense.
This is insane. And btw, when I was a boy you could not even charge a boy under the age of 14 with rape in England. Yes, times have changed and for the worse.
In the U.S. a five-year-old got suspended from school for sexual harassment.
"In the U.S. a five-year-old got suspended from school for sexual harassment."
This is an act of the Gender/Raunch Establishment in many of public schooling systems.
This is insane. And btw, when I was a boy you could not even charge a boy under the age of 14 with rape in England. Yes, times have changed and for the worse.
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Just wait until your country turns into America! Then you'll see some real railroading.
How does this get to court in the first place? Who reported this. I bet it was mummy dearest. These laws that just allow anyone to lie and get away with it are a menace to all. The rape laws are not the only ones. This girl deserves punishment. If this is women then they can go to hell. This is the end of it for me. I don't care if I never get sex again. They are filth. Notice how the judge says she did nothing wrong. No nothing ,only lied and dragged two boys through the mud. Girls are stupid-throw rocks at them
This is what SOME women do.
"Just wait until your country turns into America! Then you'll see some real railroading."
The UK should talk. I have one word: Harman.
And I can't imagine a trial like this in the U.S. This is the kind of thing you'd see in some primitive, unsophisticated, third world country. But I guess that's what Britain has become.
You can't imagine a trial like this in the US? Are you kidding?
Trust me: my criminal justice system can beat up yours.
You can't imagine a trial like this happening in the US? Are you kidding?
Trust me: my criminal justice system can beat up yours.
That opinion is full of shit. The UK is a matriarchy.
Not compared to the US it ain't!
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