A TEEN AGER BOY SETENCED JAIL

PRADEEP K TIMALSINA, Sydney ,Australia
A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to six years' jail for raping a woman in Tennant Creek earlier this year.
The teenager attacked the woman as she walked through Crown land in Tennant Creek one night in March. The court heard he grabbed her from behind and punched and kicked her so she was knocked out. He then dragged the woman into bushes and had sex with her.
Chief Justice Brian Martin said the boy was immature and had been drunk at the time of the attack. But he said concerns about the boy's age and rehabilitation had to come second to the need to protect the community from attacks of that kind.
He sentenced the boy to six years' jail, with a non-parole period of three years and nine months.