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I don't know why the word "consent" is being bandied about so much... there's no such thing as "consensual sex" with an 11 year old. Every time I see, "consensual or not" or "whether or not she seemed to consent to it", i have to cringe. There's no such thing. The reason they cannot consent is specifically because just saying "yes" does not mean they understand what they're doing. They may think it's the best thing in the world, but that doesn't mean they understand what's being done to them. That's why there is no consent, and it is bad to use terms like "even if she said it was ok".
The 14-year-old boy's crime was not the act itself, it was participating in the act with men who WERE sexually assaulting her under the law. Like being the guy who drives the car, when your cohorts went into the store to hold it up. You don't get a free pass because you didn't actually commit the crime that was going on around you.
And no, the kid definitely deserved his sentence... education or no, it takes a serious lack of moral judgment to not only see this going on and not say something afterward, but to actively encourage the cover-up by lying and getting other to lie about it with you. I believe it is that glaring lack of moral judgment that the judge sought to punish/correct.
The parents of the 14 year old boy should be terribly, terribly ashamed of themselves- especially the mother, calling an 11 year old a whore. What a stupid cunt (and I hate using that word, but it's the only one for her). An 11 year old girl is raped by 14 people, 7 of which being grown men, and she's trying to insist that the 11 year old girl is to blame. There is a special place in hell for people like this boy's mother, and I bet her spot has been set aside ahead of time.
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