Two Boys, 11, Guilty of Attempted Rape

(London, England) Here's an interesting story of two 10-year-old boys being convicted of attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl but evidence appears to indicate that the children were just playing.

"Being naughty" is how one media source characterized the whole episode.

The jury found the children guilty by a majority of 10 to two on two charges each, making them among the youngest defendants ever to be convicted of the crime of rape by a British court. As the verdicts were read out the younger boy sought eye-contact with his mother but both mothers stared straight ahead.

The girl claimed last October that the boys had dragged her to a block of flats and kept her in a bin shed as they repeatedly raped her near her home in Hayes, west London, but she later retracted the story during cross-examination, saying she had made it up to avoid getting into trouble.

The boys were released on conditional bail while reports are drawn up and will return to court at a later date for sentencing.

So the boys were convicted despite the fact the girl lied. I don't get it.

Thanks to Brian K/GK.