Löysin Redditistä pitkähkön ketjun 9 vuoden takaa, josta poimin kommentin, joka otti pahiten silmään. Tuomioita on juhlittu oikeussalissa perheiden ja kavereiden kesken. Ei minkäänlaista kunnioitusta uhria kohtaan.
Linkki ketjuun.
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/jdWMb8zb0c
Edit. Samassa ketjussa suomalaisen helmian kommentti.
Sounds very much like something that could happen in Finland. Their young age was probably the biggest factor in the sentence.
Actually today people have been discussing about the age of criminal responsibility (that is 15 here) in Finland too. Two 13- and 14-year old boys locked two girls in a room, fetched ice cold water and threw it on them four times until finally throwing almost boiling water on one girl that lead to second degree burns covering 9% of her body. They had practically zero consequences and according the police "the boys didn't understand the water was so hot" (there was some kind of problem in the showers where they took the water, it was 90 degrees). Even if they did understood what they were doing they would have zero consequences because they were under 15. They got to continue on the swimming club and obviously even their parents didn't give a shit because when there was a threat of forcing those boys to quit on the swimming club one boy just simply switched to another.
These things are not easy, there are many sides to consider and it is good that lynch mobs are not let to decide on things. Still, it kind of goes against your natural gut feeling of what is justice and what is not (this meaning the age of criminal responsibility in general, not necessarily these two cases. I think the system failed in both of these cases).
But what comes to what happened in Germany, my guess is that it doesn't matter if those were spared of jail now, they will be there one day. If you are old enough to rape you are old enough to understand what you are doing. I seriously doubt that they are going to do some miraculous change of character and grow up as responsible, normal adults. The biggest factor saying otherwise is that the family and friends cheered on the court. Those boys have been raised the wrong way since day one and obviously are surrounded by the wrong kind of people in the future too. When I think about it, this might have been the last chance to save those guys and have some sense on them, but unfortunately it was missed. I really really hope they will never repeat what they did, but unfortunately in my opinion if you are capable of a gang rape at that age and no one intervenes in any way, you are not going to magically change.
Edit: I have to add that I can't imagine how horrible not only the assault was but the court must have been really traumatic for her. I really hope she will receive all the help she needs and finally start healing. Just heartbreaking, some people are monsters.