Germany - 8 of 9 migrants convicted of gang-raping a 15-year-old will avoid jail time
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It’s strange that 19-23 year olds are in “youth court” but other than that, I’m not surprised by the sentences. Juveniles in the U.S. also get ridiculous slap-on-the-wrist sentences too, immigrant or not. If you ever have to defend yourself against teenagers, keep that in mind when dealing with the threat.
I find it hard to believe that in the U.S. you would get a slap on the wrist for raping a girl. Even if the girl was white and all the perps where black and I would still expect jail.
This does not imply you are wrong, just that I hope you are.
Actual minors get tried as adults fairly often in the US when their crimes are heinous enough. We are, however, still in the midst of a post-Floyd "let blacks kill whitey" moment so this isn't consistent.
Legally speaking, only 17 year olds can be tried as adults. So 16 and below will be given sentences in the youth system.
I was tangentially involved in a case where a 14 year old boy repeatedly raped his younger sister and his "punishment" was being sent to a residential facility for troubled youth until he was 18.
Even when teens get the maximum sentence, it's still pitifully lenient, like 7 years for a murder.
My general advice is to forever sleep any teenage assailants attacking you because you should not expect anything resembling actual justice from the courts.