Warning: This story contains details some may find distressing<\/p>\n
Three boys were involved in the attack – two boys, then aged 14, were convicted of rape. A third, then 13, was guilty of rape by aiding and abetting the attack.<\/p>\n
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales says that even in very serious cases, courts are expected to prioritise rehabilitation for children and use custody only as a last resort.<\/p>\n
Both parents spoke anonymously to BBC Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire along with their daughter.<\/p>\n
The teenage girl said her mental health has suffered significantly following the attack and she struggles to get out of bed.<\/p>\n
“I feel like no matter what I do, I can always feel their hands [the rapists’] on me, no matter how much I’ve scrubbed, how much I’ve tried to get the feeling away, it’s always there and it just doesn’t feel like my body anymore,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said she suffers from “vivid flashbacks”, adding: “I don’t sleep at night, because I’m worried something’s going to happen.”<\/p>\n
Going to school has also been challenging, she said: “I have very low attendance and with my exams going on it’s not helping because I’m so far behind in my education. I’m just losing out on the potential I would have had if none of this had happened.”<\/p>\n
Her mother said she wanted her daughter not to “live in fear” but to “be able to be free and happy again”.<\/p>\n
Her father said the rape “will cause a lifelong impact on my daughter and my family. This isn’t going away for five years, 10 years. This is a life sentence for her”.<\/p>\n
He added: “I understand that we may not be able to lock these boys up for a life sentence but it starts with a custodial sentence and I feel they have to have something in there, going forwards, that impacts them for life.”<\/p>\n
The girl met the boys in January 2025 at Fordingbridge Recreation Ground, where she was raped repeatedly.<\/p>\n
One of her attackers pushed her down and used a knife to cut her clothing before forcing himself on her.<\/p>\n
Video footage previously seen in court showed her lying motionless on the ground with “her face buried in her hands”, while another boy was heard shouting words of encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: This story contains details some may find distressing Three boys were involved in the attack – two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-607493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}