Unusual

Extraordinary.

A community sentence handed down to a man who raped a 13-year-old schoolgirl when he was 17 has been described as “extraordinary” by a leading KC. Sean Hogg, now 21, attacked the girl in Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian, on various occasions in 2018.

Judge Lord Lake said that if the offence had been committed by an adult over 25, Hogg would have received a jail sentence of four or five years. Tommy Ross KC said the 270-hour community sentence was “very unusual”. Hogg’s punishment has also been condemned by Rape Crisis Scotland.

Not to be confused with Rape Crisis Edinburgh, whose CEO is a man who calls himself a woman.

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