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A teenage rape victim has criticised a court decision to spare three boys from prison after they were convicted over attacks on two girls in Hampshire, UK.The victim, now 16, spoke to the BBC after the defendants were handed Youth Rehabilitation Orders instead of custodial sentences at Southampton Crown Court.
“What was the point in putting me through that?” she said.
The girl was 15 when she was raped in an underpass near the River Avon in Fordingbridge in November 2024 after travelling to meet one of the boys following conversations on Snapchat.Two boys, now aged 15, were convicted over the assault and a separate rape involving another teenage girl in January 2025.