Minister Grows Emotional While Discussing Teenage Rape Victim's Case

Darren Jones's voice started to crack as he said: "No parent wants their daughter to be in those circumstances."

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A minister grew visibly emotional on live TV this morning following a troubling BBC interview with a teenage rape victim.

A girl who was raped by two teenage boys told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the judge’s decision to spare her attackers jail was like a “rock straight in my face”.

Speaking anonymously with her family, she said the move “always made it seem as if what the boys did was not OK, but it was OK in the eyes of the law because they were still children”.

Judge Nichoas Rowland said on Thursday he wanted to avoid “criminalising” the “very young” boys.

The attorney general, Lord Hermer, is........

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