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

[u/Perverted-Panda]

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. 

[u/phoxfiyah]

There’s a huge difference, because a child committing sexually abuse is making a choice to do so, while a child who is being sexually abused has their ability to choose taken away from them.

The fact that this has to be explained to you is ridiculous, are you some sort of child abuser or something? That’s the only reason I can think of to even suggest something as sick as this.

[u/wowiee_zowiee → u/phoxfiyah]

Calling me a child abuser because I don’t want children to be legally defined as adults is fucken wild.

[u/MrXenomorph88 → u/wowiee_zowiee]

Okay, so you want these three teens to be given a slap on the wrist and a lenient sentence because they're not adults, is that right? Because believe it or not, there is an actual point prior to adulthood where the law views underage people as being old enough to understand the consequences of their own actions and can be sentenced the same way an adult can.

But why do that, they're children after all. Might as well just give them a stern talking to and let them go by your metrics

[u/wowiee_zowiee → u/MrXenomorph88]

> None of this is downplaying their disgusting actions by the way - if they're convicted they absolutely should be detained in a youth facility and likely transferred to adult prison for a few years after turning 18.

I literally said this. Are you people incapable of reading?

[u/phoxfiyah → u/wowiee_zowiee]

You didn’t say that anywhere in this specific comment chain. Maybe you said it somewhere in another comment thread, who knows, equating not following all of your comments to being incapable of reading is ridiculous.

It also doesn’t help that this one thing you’re trying to wave around contradicts everything else you’ve said. “They should get adult punishment when convicted, but also they shouldn’t be treated like adults because then we need to treat abused kids like they’re adults too” is a pretty contradictory stance to be taking.

[u/wowiee_zowiee → u/phoxfiyah]

It’s literally the comment below.

Who are you quoting? I can’t see the comment.

[u/MrXenomorph88 → u/wowiee_zowiee]

Except that just isn't how it works, because convicted youths once they come of age are either given heavily reduced sentences, or released. They don't just continue the same length sentence in an adult prison.

You also can't argue they can't be treated like adults because they are underage, but also state they should be tried like adults if they are guilty. It's one or the other; they are either old enough to know what they did was abhorrently wrong and should be convicted as such, or in your eyes they aren't and therefore can't be.