SEVEN YEARS FOR TEENAGE SEX OFFENDER

PFMLIT General, JUVENILE OFFENDERS

A 15 year old schoolboy, who cannot be named because he is three months short of his 16th birthday, abducted a six year old girl from a play park and tried to rape her.  He has been ordered by a High Court judge to be detained for seven years.  He admitted attacking the girl and

attempting to rape her on July 10th this year. The judge, the Lord Justice Clerk Lord Cullen, strongly recommended that the boy undertake a program for young sex offenders.