Spared jail: Judge Gareth Hawkesworth warned
the boy that he would have been jailed for six
and a half years if he had been four years older.
A schoolboy raped a five-year-old girl while babysitting her after he was ‘corrupted’ by internet pornography.
The 14-year-old tied an apron around the child’s eyes and made her perform an indecent act on him as he looked after her in her home.
He was caught after the girl told her father what had happened.
The teenager, who is now 15 and is the son of a businessman, later admitted he regularly looked at hardcore pornography on a laptop at home.
He wore his school uniform in the dock at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday as Judge Gareth Hawkesworth told him he would have received a six-and-a-half year jail term if he had been an adult.
Instead, the judge imposed a three-year community order after blaming ‘the world and society’ for his exposure to porn.
Judge Hawkesworth said: ‘You have not shown any particular sexual interest in children. I’m satisfied it was impulsive and I believe you have become sexualised by your exposure to and the corruption of pornography.
‘Your exposure at such a young age has ended in tragedy. It was the fault of the world and society.’
The case has fuelled demands for stricter controls to be put in place to stop children accessing online porn.
The Daily Mail is calling for an automatic block under which adult content would be filtered out by default. Users would have to opt in to see it.