Mind boggling the excuses some have come up with.
Not as if it as a drunken spur of the one-off moment thing.
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"But this judge has come to the conclusion that help is required rather than punishment.
"It's a brave step to take... you can see why he's done it because the law says that children's welfare takes precedence over most other things."
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Joseph said in her experience of sentencing, it was "not successful" sending a 15 or 16-year-old into a young offenders institution, where they then go on to prisons.
She said it would expose them to "such bad influences".
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Explaining his sentencing decision on Thursday, Judge Nicholas Rowland said he would avoid "criminalising" the "very young" boys.
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