The boy, a resident of the same village, lured the victim to a secluded place on the pretext of taking her fishing at a pond and sexually assaulted her.
"Children have greater exposure to pornographic material.
Rapes against young girls have become commonplace now and its depravity has ceased to shock us. However, what is new is the rapid rise in the number of young boys involved in sexual offences."
An assessment identified that the boy’s pathway to offending was the viewing of adult pornography on his phone at an early age and there is “an epidemic in its own right of young boys accessing pornography and then acting it out in inappropriate ways."