Posted on 04/29/2023 11:30:19 AM PDT by grundle
A child rapist deemed too young for jail is to have his sentence appealed by prosecutors after a backlash led by JK Rowling.
Sean Hogg, 21, was spared prison earlier this month and instead ordered to carry out 270 hours of unpaid work for raping a 13-year-old girl in a park.
The judge in the case, Lord Lake, said that had Hogg been aged 25 or over, he would have been sentenced to between four and five years in custody.
However, under Scottish sentencing guidelines introduced last year, courts are told to treat those aged up to 24 much more leniently, in part because it is claimed their brains have not fully developed.
The sentence caused outrage from Ms Rowling, the Harry Potter author, who claimed it sent a dangerous message to young men that they could attack girls with impunity.
J.K. Rowling tweet:
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1643168702181801984
Progressive Scotland 2023, where a man gets no jail time for raping a 13-year-old girl in a park. Young Scottish men are effectively being told ‘first time’s free.’
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Relative of David Hogg?
“those aged up to 24 much more leniently, in part because it is claimed their brains have not fully developed.”
Oh?
At what age are they allowed to vote?
In Roman times I think 13 was considered responsible for your actions.
so why do we demand soldiers go off to war at age 18?...
why allow young girls to get abortions at age 12 for 13 without parents approval or even notification....
things must change....
the worse violence in America is done by a certain under 24 age group and if we ever allow them free reign then run for the hills .....
INSANITY!
what a bunch of horsepoo.
Lock him up!
Not fully developed? Then they shouldn’t be allowed to vote or be drafted either.
Wow. That’s not even a good slap on the wrist. Also, saying it takes 24 years for someone to know raping a 13 year old girl is a wrongful act seems to be a bit of a stretch.
If 21 is too young to imprison can he instead be hanged?
Have to see what Pedo-Joe thinks. He’ll give it the sniff test
Woke brains never seem to work....
or buy booze or marijuana(in idiot states that allow it like mine)!
If he was livestock, ...
Just sayin', ya know?
24 and under men are more likely to rape than over 24, I would think. Discourage them.
Pedophiles have no redeeming qualities...
They can’t be rehabilitated...
Kill them..
And those that enable them..
This should include politicians, cops, prosecutors and judges.
He should be sentence to a prison full of homosexual rapists.
There was a reason sexual perversions were a capital offense in the Old Testament; He knew that when people are consumed by their own lusts that society becomes unfit for human habitation and has to be completely and utterly destroyed because the land itself becomes polluted and is fit for nothing but to be burned.
gay genital mutilation and abortion at 12 is AOK! but prison at 24, waaaaay to young!
Good point. They want to codify this into law, then raise the voting age to 24 or 25 as well.
Time to transition into a corpse.
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