Megan Paterson
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Victims minister 'not surprised' by Tyneside school 'rape list' (opens the original)
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Victims Minister Alex Davies-Jones has said she is "horrified but sadly not surprised" by teenage girls' accounts of the violent misogyny they face. A group of young women from Tyneside made a short film to highlight the abusive comments they experience regularly, which included explicit sexual language and rape threats often masked as "banter". Davies-Jones told the BBC the film reflected statistics on youth crime which showed a '"huge spike and growth in peer-on-peer crimes of a sexual nature"
Rape threats part of misogyny Tyneside schoolgirls face (opens the original)
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A group of teenage girls have said they feel "worthless" and "frightened" as a result of the extreme misogyny they regularly experience. The students, from Tyneside, have spoken out after making a film about the language they endure at school and online. Many comments are too explicit to share, but they include threats of violence and rape often masked as "banter". One girl described how disturbed she had been after a "rape list" was made by boys in her school. The government said it was "taking
'Terrifying limbo' over Sunderland rapist's escorted trips (opens the original)
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A rape victim has been living in "terrifying limbo" due to confusion caused by officials who sent contradictory information about proposals for her attacker to be given escorted trips from a secure hospital. In February, Byron Stubbs from Sunderland was labelled a "dangerous offender" and given an indefinite hospital order for the rape and later stabbing a seven-year-old child and two women. Less than three months later, the Prison and Probation Service sent the rape victim a letter saying escor
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