Boy on rape charge
The first 12-year-old boy in Britain charged with rape since the law was changed last year to cover youngsters under 14 was sent for trial. The boy - now 13 - was bailed by a youth court at Newport, on the Isle of Wight, accused of raping a girl of 12 at Cowes last November.
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