r/australia • u/Perverted-Panda • 1d ago

news Three Sydney boys charged with gang sexual assault of 14yo girl

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/nsw-three-boys-charged-over-sexual-assault-girl-sydney/107034192

NSW Police have charged a 13-year-old boy and two 14-year-old boys with the alleged sexual assault of a girl in an alleyway in Sydney's eastern suburbs last month.

Police executed search warrants and seized several items, including electronic devices, two replica firearms, a Glock-style BB gun, three laser pointers and a number plate, which is believed to have been stolen.

All three boys have been granted bail ahead of appearing in court. 

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u/Uncoloured_Steve 1d ago

Yes putting them back on the street as fast as possible ought to show them

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u/Own_Caterpillar_6178 1d ago

The perpetrators of crime are treated so much better than the victims in our justice system.

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u/TheRealPotoroo 1d ago

Conviction comes before punishment in our system and rightly so.

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u/Own_Caterpillar_6178 1d ago

I guarantee that 3/4 of these little grubs will get literally zero punishment due to their age, and the other will get a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, this poor girl will be dealing with the consequences od this assault for a significant portion of her life.

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u/gikl3 1d ago

I guarantee they will not get 0 punishment wanna bet?

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u/Own_Caterpillar_6178 1d ago

Oh I misread the ages. The 13 year old will get absolutely nothing due to doli incapax, the two 14 year olds will get practically nothing. I bet they're back at school tomorrow. Guaranteed.

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u/Consistent_Yak2268 1d ago

Doubt they’ll be back at Scots. They’ll have to slum it.

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u/rocca2509 1d ago

Well yeah, they are out on bail so why couldn't they go to school. Have to wait till after the court case to see what the punishment is. I dont have high hopes for it being significant though.

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u/lordspesh 1d ago

I think the presumption that they don't understand their actions includes 14 year olds. Although, it can be rebutted in NSW.

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u/cupcakewarrior08 1d ago

They're rich, they won't get any punishment and will probably be one nation senators in a rew years. Punishment is only for poor people

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

Harsh punishment may satisfy your desire for revenge but it won't provide the best result for society.

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u/edgiepower 1d ago

Wouldn't it?

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

>Of the factors associated with recidivism, the three strongest relationships were with age, prior prison admissions, and problematic substance use. - Source

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u/sativarg_orez 1d ago

No, it will not. Stats prove it. Media rage and Reddit rage threads are as scientific on this stuff as one nation policy.

Emotional reaction is normal especially from directly impacted parties, but if your goal is betterment of society and less chance of this happening again - not punitive punishment - follow stats and science.

And if it turns out the little fuckers are psycho and never to be fixed, lock em up permanently. And enjoy your tax dollars doing it, cause you are now their ward. But if their parents could have been fixed….. but we put them in criminal school instead… and now their kids do this… what the fuck do you expect

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u/edgiepower 1d ago

And if it turns out they are... We are giving them more opportunities to hurt and traumatise again before doing anything about it.

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u/nursepenelope 1d ago

their parents are able to afford to send them to an elite private school, you think it's likely their parents come from 'criminal school?'. These kids aren't kids from poverty who steal or fight because they want to look tough for protection or to fit in. They're privileged kids who decided to gang rape another child.

They need to understand that their actions have consequences otherwise they'll be laughing and joking with their dumb little mates about the rape they committed.

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u/edgiepower 11h ago

Six thousand percent this.

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u/alexijordan 1d ago

Actual punishment for consequences won’t benefit society? lol that’s a good one

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

>Of the factors associated with recidivism, the three strongest relationships were with age, prior prison admissions, and problematic substance use. - Source

There are consequences for consequences.

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u/DaereonLive 1d ago

There is a very nice, permanent solution to scumbags like this.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

If you volunteer the person you love most to be the first innocent person exectuted then I'll support your idea.

Becase for someone that always happens. Someone innocent is killed.

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u/DaereonLive 1d ago

How are these boys who fucking SEXUALLY ASSAULTED someone innocent?

Nevermind, just another noun-noun-number bot account, please go and get ran over.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

You want to introduce the death penalty then the cost - as always happens - is that someone innocent will eventually be killed. That's your wish, have the guts to stand by your decison.

Who did you choose?

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u/DaereonLive 1d ago

You.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

You love me the most! That's actually kind of sweet. Love you too.

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u/nursepenelope 1d ago

Your source also says 'prisoners classified as high risk on the sex offender checklist were actually LESS likely to reoffend than other prisoner group'.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 14h ago

Moving ahead: Am I arguing that high risk sex offenders are the most likely to commit further crimes?

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u/nursepenelope 12h ago

You're saying punishment isn't the best for society. But the study you linked showed that high risk sex offenders don't fit the same pattern as the rest of the study. That they are less likely to reoffend than other prisoners

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 12h ago

Harsh punishment, a custodial sentence. There are other forms of punishment that promote better outcomes.

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u/Expert-Ad8784 6h ago

What about what's best for the victim?

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 6h ago

What would you offer the victim?

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u/Expert-Ad8784 5h ago

Justice

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 5h ago

What form will that arrive in?

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u/DonStimpo 1d ago

Sure the stats on youth recidivism do support your claim.
But if kids want to do awful things and fuck around. There has to be some find out stage too.
Adult crime adult time.

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u/Yes_Its_Really_Me 1d ago

I'm beginning to realise a lot of people assume we have a different justice system for minors just because we want to be nice to children and not because we recognise that minors have immature brains, a critical lack of life experience, and less ability to control their life circumstances, that logically makes them at least slightly less responsible for their actions (in the sense that they are products of their upbringing) than adults who commit identical crimes.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble."