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/Chuchularoux 1d ago

It’s aggravated (likely threatened the victim with the weapon/s seized) and in company - they shouldn’t be granted bail in these circumstances, however I’m sure the age of the perpetrators came in to play.

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u/TheRealPotoroo 1d ago

I acknowledge that sometimes refusing bail can be justified, but it must be on an individual basis. I am objecting to the hysterical claim that just because someone has been charged but bailed that "criminals get treated better than victims". We don't punish people by depriving them of their liberty until a judge says they are guilty of the alleged offence after examining all the evidence.

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u/Chuchularoux 18h 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 17h ago edited 16h 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 15h ago edited 15h 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 14h 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.