Supreme Court to hear appeal against sentence of man who committed rape at age 15

A 15-year-old was found guilty of raping a teenager and later sexually assaulting two women, receiving a prison sentence of just over three years. His lawyers are currently arguing in the Supreme Court whether he should be sentenced as a youth based on his age at the time of the first offense or as an adult, given that he was 21 at the time of conviction.

Explain It To Me Like I’m 5: A young man did some really bad things to girls when he was a teenager, and now people are trying to decide if he should be punished like a kid or an adult.

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