World

Nearly 500 young Scots charged with rape in five years

by mudricky | July 20, 2009 at 10:16 pm

441 views | 63 Recommendations | 17 comments

The BBC have got a hold of a set of shocking figures this morning through the freedom of information act and it shows that nearly 500 under eighteen year olds in Scotland have been charged with rape.

The figures also show that nineteen of these charges were brought against children under 10-year olds.

Also a total of 755 charges were brought against under 18s for indecency or sexual offences last year.

In 2007/8 police or courts dealt with 2,088 sexual offences by under 18s, including 244 cases involving pre-teenage children.

Under Scottish law of criminal responsibility is currently aged eight, compared with the age of 10 under English law.

What a horrible set of figures though I must admit mankind stopped shocking me years ago.

Police in Scotland have brought almost 500 rape charges against children and teenagers under the age of 18 in the past five years.
Nineteen of these charges were brought against eight, nine or 10-year olds.

During the same period, three out of four specialist residential units treating sexually aggressive young people have closed.

The figures were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act as part of a BBC Scotland investigation.

A total of 755 charges were brought against under 18s for indecency or sexual offences last year.

Another case, not included in that total, involved a four-year-old in the Grampian area reported for indecent assault.

0 See all footage | View Slideshow

Share: email story | add to any | | facebook | stumbleupon

recommend This comment thread is now closed

Amitjha

at 22:49 on July 20th, 2009

Strange, the whole training system is at flaw then?

mudricky

at 22:56 on July 20th, 2009

It's clear something has went wrong.

adhirish (not verified)

at 05:21 on July 21st, 2009

BBC has been rudely spoted this news , something must been wrong with the boys i think so.

albertacowpoke

at 01:36 on July 21st, 2009

Hard to believe that kids under 10 would engage in this. Do you have any idea why kids would act out that way?

mudricky

at 02:07 on July 21st, 2009

Therse findings are part of a BBC Scotland TV program being shown here called 'The Dark Side of Teenage Sex'.

The findings show that the 7 out of 10 children who carry out serious abuse had been abused themselves.

In the show, one young man, who was convicted of two counts of attempted rape carried out when he was 11 and 14, had been been sent to a specialist school which claimed it offered treatment.

He said: "No help was offered, no help was given. It was just another place for me to stay."

Dr Eileen Vizard NSPCC said "There's a great deal of evidence to show that the children who are at the highest risk start earlier in childhood - really early - ie under six or seven with worrying behaviours - that if they don't get help because services have been closed, the behaviours are likely to escalate and worsen"

minakshi (not verified)

at 05:24 on July 21st, 2009

What it is hard to believe the matter of fact is today not only under age girl and boys but also the matured people are belonging to this catagoties.

Fov

at 04:24 on July 21st, 2009

It's horrible to hear that,i think the society and specially their families and teathers should be responsible for the case !

Paschen

at 04:34 on July 21st, 2009

Ouch, That is surprising and yet your last phrase is most accurate.

mudricky

at 04:38 on July 21st, 2009

What do you mean? There is more information in my last phease?

The souce is the story I linked to in the main story.

Paschen

at 05:00 on July 21st, 2009

You said, "What a horrible set of figures though I must admit mankind stopped shocking me years ago." And I do agree with that sentence. That is all Ricky.

mudricky

at 06:01 on July 21st, 2009

Cheers Paschen, I was just checking as I though you ment the comment I left afterwards as I forgot to source it as it was a mistake.

=:-)

Spydermonkey

at 04:57 on July 21st, 2009

Once you have teen's having sex with pre-teens, you end up with a self-perpetual cycle.

When the pre-teens become teenagers, they will tend to find pre-teens to play with...

And from mudricky's coment, the mental health system isn't doing the work on this that it should be doing for these kids. Again, it perpetuates the cycle if the cycle isn't broken in the beganing.