16-year-old boy sentenced for rape and sexual abuse

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A boy aged 16 was sentenced to four years’ detention, with the final year suspended, at the Central Criminal Court, as reported on 23 July 2016.

He had pleaded guilty to 13 counts, including rape, anal rape, oral rape and sexual abuse of his half-sister between February and August 2014 in their home in a Midlands town.

The court heard that the abuse stopped after the girl confided in her parents, who confronted him, and that he admitted what he had done.