Thousands of sex offenders receive cautions.
"Almost 8,000 sex offenders have received a police caution rather than being charged in the past five years, it emerged today".
I am staggered by this amount. And, it would appear that it could be much higher because "Only one force, West Yorkshire police, failed to provide figures, saying it would be too expensive to search for the facts". A pathetic excuse if ever I heard one!
One would have thought that we were talking about minor offences here, and not serious crimes including 230 rapes and almost 2,000 offences involving children.
"Cautions would be given in circumstances where the victim of a rape did not turn up to give evidence in court or, for example, the case involved a 16-year-old boy having consensual sex with a 15-year-old". I did not realise that a 15 year old girl could give consent for sex at least until she was 16 years of age...
"A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice said "very few" of the cautions were for raping children". Oh that's alright then is it? Like fuck it is!
UPDATE: How can a rapist only be cautioned?
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Monday, June 11, 2007
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