"This is an appalling case and it is right that law officers are urgently reviewing the sentences."

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The teenager was 15 when she was raped in an underpass by the River Avon in #Fordingbridge , #Hampshire.
She had travelled to meet one of the boys for the first time in November 2024 after he had begun a "relationship" with her on social media platform #Snapchat.
The two defendants, who are now 15, were also convicted of attacking a second victim, who was raped in a field in January 2025. Another boy, now 14, was also convicted for his involvement in the second attack.
The boys filmed the rapes on their phones and later shared some of the footage online.

At the sentencing hearing at #SouthamptonCrownCourt, the judge stressed the "seriousness" of the crimes and said the filming of the assaults made them even "more serious".