PHILIPSBURG--The Court of First Instance sentenced two teenagers Wednesday for having raped a 15-year-old girl on April 12.
The boys, 16 and 17, will both have to perform 200 hours of community service and will also be put under the surveillance of the Court of Guardianship.
The 16-year-old was also sentenced to one year and 39 days, one year of which was suspended, on three years' probation. His 17-year-old counterpart received one year and 45 days, one year of which was suspended, on three years' probation.
Both young men had denied they had been one of three boys that had raped the girl inside a car wreck in Dutch Quarter. They maintained that the sex had been consensual, but the girl said she had been forced to have sex with several boys.
Judge Monique Keppels stated in her explanation that she gave credibility to the girl's statement, because several suspects had also told the police that more than one boy had been involved in the incident.
In the meantime, the 16-year-old is seeing a psychologist and the 17-year-old a psychiatrist. The judge mentioned the mentorship programme of Victorious Living Foundation as a possible probation programme.
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