Sorry… 12 months? On 23 September, Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex. He was found guilty of: two counts of sexual assault one count of attempted sexual assault one count of inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity one count of harassment without violence
Sentences for sexual offences always seem very light. Not sure why when people who commit these crimes are always likely to reoffend. The amount of lives it ruins is high too.
I was thinking about this and wonder if some of it extends from our history towards women and their rights, and that the law has never really kept up. My thought being our past history regarding women within employment law and the women right to vote, and probably some bits I can't remember right now, but women were often treated as second class citizens regarding their role within society. I often think sometimes when we complain how other countries treat women, we've only just caught up within my lifetime, but even within my lifetime it's taken a lot of individual women standing up for their rights and that fight still goes on in male dominated world. When you think how child abuse has been rife in this country at the highest levels, it's no wonder the law has not kept up, maybe I'd go as far as saying it's been deliberately kept that way.
