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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Sun Mar 23, 2014, 01:54 PM Mar 2014

Girls in gangs leading desperate lives, says UK report

Yes, this is rape culture.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26698890
BBC News
23 March 2014
Girls in gangs leading desperate lives, says UK report

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Targets
Researchers producing the Girls and Gangs report heard that:

Female gang members in their teens are being pressured to have sex with boys as young as 10 to initiate males into gangs
In one case a schoolgirl was abducted and sexually assaulted by nine males because she criticised a gang member
Young women associated with rival gangs are targets, in some cases forced to take part in a "line up", where they are made to perform sexual acts on several men in a row
Girls and young women are frequently used to hide weapons and drugs - sometimes in pushchairs - because they are less likely to be stopped and searched by police.... MORE

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Girls in gangs leading desperate lives, says UK report (Original Post) theHandpuppet Mar 2014 OP
you brought me in here. sittin and holding hands, with the pain of our seabeyond Mar 2014 #1
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. you brought me in here. sittin and holding hands, with the pain of our
Sun Mar 23, 2014, 02:05 PM
Mar 2014

sisters, daughters, nieces and friends.....

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