Surely we are talking about rape here - and as a sentence for rape and a long thought out plan to rape, plus the psychological damage to a clearly naive and vulnerable girl, 8 years seems quite reasonable.
What would the sentence have been if this offence had been committed by a man. I bet a man accused of carefully plotting the rape and, say, using disguise and blindfolds to avoid being identified and with such a vulnerable victim would have got considerably more than 8 years.
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