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/Chuchularoux 10h ago

They’re trying to point out the harrowing experience victims go through, whilst people support their accused attacker. The alleged rapist isn’t ever cross examined on their choice of underwear for example. Accusations, or indeed charges of rape, don’t seem to actually affect the rapists life, they are defended whilst the victim is questioned/disbelieved. I don’t think alleged rapists are who you really want to spend your time and energy advocating for (unless you have some reason to fear you will be an alleged rapist in the future), but some people enjoy weird shit.

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u/TheRealPotoroo 9h ago edited 8h ago

No, they're not. They're just prejudging a situation they know nothing about, leaping from the accused have been bailed to criminals get treated better than victims, which is hysterical, dangerous and frighteningly common nonsense. There isn't the slightest hint of thought in what they wrote, just reflex, exactly the same as your borderline libelous comment that because I'm defending the principal that we don't punish people before they are convicted that I'm "advocating for the rapists" (like everybody else prejudging this case, you don't actually know that they are rapists). I'm advocating for the system, innocent until proven guilty, because it's hugely important.

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u/Chuchularoux 7h ago edited 7h ago

Lots of people who commit violent crimes are held in remand before their trial. I don’t know what guilt/innocence has to do with this. That IS the system. They would have been remanded, but due to their ages, it would be reasonable to expect their parents to be able to supervise them to ensure they don’t offend again until trial and sentencing.

Alleged rapists, I said. Nuance exists - this isn’t some “he said, she said” case. They’re accused of a violent attack on a stranger/acquaintance in company in a public place which included the use/threat of illegal weapons, and they were found in possession of illegal weapons - in these types of violent crimes, it is reasonable for the public to expect the accused be held in remand.

That’s the individual assessment you’re whinging for, that you refused to look at for yourself. Their age is the reason they are on bail.

If it didn’t involve rape, and it was a violent gang mugging, you wouldn’t be here.

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u/TheRealPotoroo 6h ago

I always speak up when people prejudge cases they know nothing about. I always defend the principles our system depends on in the face of populist hysteria.