Let me start by strongly condemning and blaming the the victim for traveling to meet someone you've never met before for the sake of relationship or only God knows her reason. For a teenager to have started exhibiting such bad character at her own age speaks volume of our corrupt our society has gradually become and how bad parenting should be discouraged and corrected.
Am i reading this correctly? You are blaming the child victim here? If so, you make me sick.
Yeah, you don't know the reasoning and if or how much she assessed the situation beforehand and what her safe options were in the first place. She is also a CHILD, whom is easily manipulated by groups. Just like those boys who raped her btw.
But claiming she had bad character to follow them is just insane. Was that bad character that she just saw good in people and trusted them? If that's your take, then i am hoping you aren't raising any kids, unless you are a teenager as well, because you will grow out of that.
Sure, it's parents job to teach kids how to be safe, but you can't prepare them for not trusting anyone, as you won't be growing up healthy that way either. But it's also parents job to teach their boys to respect others and not to rape them, in fact that's freaking essential. So which parents you think should be punished here?
And what comes to those boys, jail or capital punishment won't help anyone, even though i totally understand the feel of needing that. But justice isn't about feelings, but about the law and optimal outcome.
Brains of those boys aren't even developed enough to fully be responsible, just like you don't punish insane people in same way either. But consequences need to be severe enough to be effective, and forced rehabilitation is actually hard mental work, even if some people see it as nothing. Those same people probably haven't done enough emotional work to understand the significance of it. It's way more effective then some Jesus forgives loophole.
Biggest justice would be real rehabilitation, if possible. Where assaulters would be forced to understand what they did, and actually do the emotional work to feel the pain they caused. Because that would be real change in the world and in best cases make them vocal advocates against SA.