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Teenage sex attacker walks free
14:17pm 4th August 2006
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A teenage sex attacker walked free from court today despite confessing to raping a 12-year-old girl while armed with a knife.
The schoolboy, who was aged 14 at the time of the attack, met the youngster outside a shop in Winton, Salford, Greater Manchester, before they went to an alleyway where she stripped naked and he assaulted her.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to a charge of rape but was spared jail by the judge at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday.
Greater Manchester Police said the boy had threatened the girl with a knife before raping her.
But Judge Jeffrey Lewis found that although the teenager had intimidated the girl with the knife, he had not used it during the rape. The boy was sentenced to a two year supervision order and will now have to sign the sex offenders register.
The court was told the 12-year-old victim had been out playing with friends when she visited the Late Shop on Parrin Lane at around 5.30pm on January 18.
She was standing outside the shop with a 9-year-old boy when the teenager, now aged 15, approached them and told the little boy to go into the shop.
He and the girl then went to a nearby alleyway, while he was still carrying the knife, and he told her to undress.
She performed oral sex on him before he allowed her to get dressed and walked her back to a bus-stop outside the shop.
The boy was arrested the following day and later charged with rape.
Following a hearing yesterday Judge Lewis sentenced the boy, who had already served seven months on remand, to a two-year supervision order.
He will also be electronically tagged and be subject to a curfew between 8pm and 7am for three months.
He will also have to sign the sex offenders' register for two years.
The boy pleaded guilty to rape on June 22 but had denied using the knife. He was found guilty following a trial on June 29.
Judge Lewis ruled this was not an incident where the girl had been raped at knifepoint, adding there was "no nexus between the knife and the commission of the crime".
He said the boy had intimidated the girl with the weapon but this was in order to attempt to prevent her from telling others about the attack. He added the girl had joined the boy in the alleyway voluntarily.
14:17pm 4th August 2006
Reader comments (11)
A teenage sex attacker walked free from court today despite confessing to raping a 12-year-old girl while armed with a knife.
The schoolboy, who was aged 14 at the time of the attack, met the youngster outside a shop in Winton, Salford, Greater Manchester, before they went to an alleyway where she stripped naked and he assaulted her.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to a charge of rape but was spared jail by the judge at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday.
Greater Manchester Police said the boy had threatened the girl with a knife before raping her.
But Judge Jeffrey Lewis found that although the teenager had intimidated the girl with the knife, he had not used it during the rape. The boy was sentenced to a two year supervision order and will now have to sign the sex offenders register.
The court was told the 12-year-old victim had been out playing with friends when she visited the Late Shop on Parrin Lane at around 5.30pm on January 18.
She was standing outside the shop with a 9-year-old boy when the teenager, now aged 15, approached them and told the little boy to go into the shop.
He and the girl then went to a nearby alleyway, while he was still carrying the knife, and he told her to undress.
She performed oral sex on him before he allowed her to get dressed and walked her back to a bus-stop outside the shop.
The boy was arrested the following day and later charged with rape.
Following a hearing yesterday Judge Lewis sentenced the boy, who had already served seven months on remand, to a two-year supervision order.
He will also be electronically tagged and be subject to a curfew between 8pm and 7am for three months.
He will also have to sign the sex offenders' register for two years.
The boy pleaded guilty to rape on June 22 but had denied using the knife. He was found guilty following a trial on June 29.
Judge Lewis ruled this was not an incident where the girl had been raped at knifepoint, adding there was "no nexus between the knife and the commission of the crime".
He said the boy had intimidated the girl with the weapon but this was in order to attempt to prevent her from telling others about the attack. He added the girl had joined the boy in the alleyway voluntarily.
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