15 Year Old Rapes HIS OWN Mother

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Raped mother pleads for son


The youth will be sentenced at the end of February

A judge has said that the case of a boy who has admitted raping his own mother may be without precedent in legal history.
The 15-year-old from Swansea pleaded guilty to rape at Swansea Crown Court while his mother sat weeping just feet away from him.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall said he could find no record of such a crime in British legal history.

"It must have happened before in our legal history but nobody can identify or recollect when."

"This is without apparent or recent precedent," he added.

The youth had been staying in local authority care when he returned home in July to stay with his 36-year-old mother for the weekend.


James Jenkins, prosecuting, said he wanted to make it clear that she had not complained in order to have her son punished, adding that she was "most anxious" her son received the best possible assistance.

"It is to her very great credit that her interests lie in seeing her son helped and to therefore carry on with his life without being a danger to anyone," he said.

Difficult
The youth's barrister John Hipkin told the court it was one of the "most difficult, sensitive and ultimately saddest cases that could be imagined".

"Psychiatrists, social workers and probation officers must resolve how to help," he said.

"I am looking at a way to protect everyone but also to work out how on earth this could have happened.

"All options remain open but I want creatively and sensitively argued options."

The jury had been sworn in for the trial when the youth suddenly changed his plea.

Mr Hipkin added that the case would be "as stressful and bizarre" to the mother "as anyone else."

The court heard how her views would have a significant effect on the ultimate sentence.

"That will assist immensely," said Judge Hall. "This is not a witch-hunt in any sense of the word," he added.

The boy will be sentenced at the end of February after experts have completed their reports.

He will remain in local authority care until the hearing.


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from BBC news, somewhere in Wales I believe.