Government must better protect rape case teenagers in light of poll

Many people attach blame to young women who are raped, but these girls don’t have the sexual maturity to negotiate such prejudices, writes Conor Ryan.

‘Without strict liability teenage girls are having to go into the witness box and have their own behaviour scrutinised as if they were adults’

VICTIMS’ groups have called on the Government to better protect teenagers in rape cases after this week’s opinion poll exposed how society can absolve sexual predators of blame.