Girl tells BBC she is 'scared to go out' after teenage rapists spared jail time

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She told BBC Newsnight she was living in fear after the attack by teenage boys, whose sentences are being reviewed.

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A miss whose teenage rapists were spared custody has told the BBC she wants "freedom" from fear. She and her parents spoke anonymously to BBC Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire.

"I conscionable privation to beryllium capable to spell for a locomotion without being frightened that I'm going to spot them," the miss said of her attackers, whose sentences are to beryllium reviewed.

Her begetter said the boys who raped her should person custodial sentences, arsenic the onslaught volition person a "lifelong impact" connected his daughter.

Two boys, past aged 14, were convicted of rape, portion a third, past 13, was recovered blameworthy of rape by aiding and abetting the attack. Their sentences are being referred to the Court of Appeal, aft an outcry erstwhile they were fixed younker rehabilitation orders.

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