Gisèle Pelicot ‘deeply shocked’ over case of boys avoiding jail for raping girls

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 Shame has to change sides',attends the Hay Festival, on May 23, 2026 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. The Hay Festival of literature and arts gathers global writers, thinkers, and performers to debate and celebrate ideas. Running over 11 days it draws over 100,000 visitors to the edge of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)
Rape survivor Gisele Pelicot has spoken out against the sentences (Picture: Getty)

The lenient sentencing of two teenage boys who filmed the rape of young girls in separate attacks has been slammed by French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot.

The boys, two aged 15 and one aged 14, were given youth rehabilitation orders and made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance.

Judge Nicholas Rowland told the two boys: ‘I should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily and understand the effects of their behaviour and support their reint...

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