A punishment that doesn’t fit the crime.
There has been an angry reaction to the sentence given to a man who raped a 13-year-old girl.
He carried out the assaults in Dalkeith Country Park in 2018.
Victims’ charities say it is too lenient.
The judge issued 21-year old Hogg with 270 hours of unpaid work as a direct alternative to jail time.
New sentencing guidelines for under-25s focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
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