{"id":3475,"date":"2026-05-26T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/rape-survivor-gisele-pelicot-deeply-shocked-after-uk-teen-boys-spared-jail-for-raping-two-girls\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:44:43","slug":"rape-survivor-gisele-pelicot-deeply-shocked-after-uk-teen-boys-spared-jail-for-raping-two-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/rape-survivor-gisele-pelicot-deeply-shocked-after-uk-teen-boys-spared-jail-for-raping-two-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape survivor Gis\u00e8le Pelicot &#8216;deeply shocked&#8217; after UK teen boys spared jail for raping two girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_1c1e1b\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">Gis\u00e8le Pelicot slammed the decision to not hand three boys involved in the rape of two girls in separate horror attacks custodial sentences while praising the bravery of the victims<\/h2>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX ImageEmbed_image-lead__Ti3qQ\" data-testid=\"leadimage\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37204757\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot at a ceremony in April\" loading=\"eager\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 508px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204757.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/1_NETHERLANDS-DIPLOMACY-FREEDOMS-AWARDS.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204757.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s508\/1_NETHERLANDS-DIPLOMACY-FREEDOMS-AWARDS.jpg 508w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204757.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/1_NETHERLANDS-DIPLOMACY-FREEDOMS-AWARDS.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204757.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/1_NETHERLANDS-DIPLOMACY-FREEDOMS-AWARDS.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot commented on the sentences of three boys in UK rape case\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Gis\u00e8le Pelicot commented on the sentences of three boys in UK rape case<cite aria-label=\"Image: AFP via Getty Images\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Rape survivor Gis\u00e8le Pelicot said she was &#8220;deeply shocked&#8221; after three teen boys convicted of raping two girls in the UK were spared jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Two girls were raped in two separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the first attack on November 26, 2024 and the second on January 17, 2025. In the first attack, a 15-year-old girl was raped by two of the boys, both aged 14 at the time and in the second attack two boys raped a 14-year-old girl and the other filmed, aged 14, the attack and encouraged the rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The three boys were given youth rehabilitation orders (YRO) instead of a custodial sentence, with the older pair also made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS).<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"image-group\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX false\" data-testid=\"imageembed-37204759\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37204759\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot speaking on BBC Breakfast\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 458px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204759.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_Image.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204759.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458b\/0_Image.jpg 458w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204759.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Image.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204759.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_Image.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot speaking on BBC Breakfast\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Gis\u00e8le Pelicot speaking on BBC Breakfast<cite aria-label=\"Image: BBC\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: BBC)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pelicot, whose horrific rape ordeal shocked France and the <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">world<\/a>, said she was horrified these teenagers were &#8220;able to gain their freedom again&#8221; when their victims were &#8220;suffering so hard they will never be able to heal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pelicot, 73, was at the heart of France&#8217;s biggest rape trial which saw her husband jailed for 20 years, in 2024, for raping and drugging her and allowing dozens of other men to sexually abuse her while she was unconscious. She had waived her right to anonymity during the trial of her husband Dominique Pelicot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The 73-year-old, speaking to <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/bbc\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">BBC<\/a> Breakfast, said: &#8220;Rape is a crime and justice has an essential role. It&#8217;s there to, in fact, name the crimes, to recognise the suffering of victims, and to remember that in fact they must not remain unpunished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Following the decision to keep the three young men out of prison, one of the two victims told the BBC it was like a &#8220;rock straight in my face&#8221;. The girl, now 16, said she wanted the sentence for the boys to be changed, saying: &#8220;Why did I sit and put myself through the pain of going to court, going through a trial, reliving everything because of evidence and watching it all happen again?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"image-group\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX false\" data-testid=\"imageembed-37204765\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37204765\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.78\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An underpass beside the River Avon\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 458px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204765.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_DX411JPG.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204765.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458b\/0_DX411JPG.jpg 458w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204765.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_DX411JPG.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37204765.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_DX411JPG.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"One of the girls was attacked in an underpass beside the River Avon\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">One of the girls was attacked in an underpass beside the River Avon<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pelicot said she hoped her story was useful for the young woman to come forward after her attack and said: &#8220;I really salute her strength and the decision she made, because I know that it&#8217;s an incredibly difficult decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The three teenage boys would not have been sent to prison is they were handed custodial sentences as people aged under 18 in the UK would serve time in a secure centres for children instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/keir-starmer\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Keir Starmer<\/a> described the case as &#8220;appalling&#8221; while Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones offered to support the families of the victims if they wished to appeal against the &#8220;leniency&#8221; of the sentences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The sentences were handed by Judge Nicholas Rowland at Southampton Crown Court and he told the defendants: &#8220;I have to remember that you are not small adults. I have to think how likely you are to do serious things again and I need to make sure you do not do serious things again in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He added: &#8220;I should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily and understand the effects of their behaviour and support their reintegration into society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for the attorney general&#8217;s office said it had received &#8220;multiple&#8221; requests for the sentences to be reviewed under the Unduly Lenient Scheme. The attorney general has 28 days to decided if the sentences should be referred to the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/gisele-pelicot-uk-rape-boys-37204440\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gis\u00e8le Pelicot slammed the decision to not hand three boys involved in the rape of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1_NETHERLANDS-DIPLOMACY-FREEDOMS-AWARDS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}