//Obviously the man committed an act of paedophilia//
Obviously he did not commit an act of paedophilia, seeing as how the girl was sexually mature.
Don't have have an opinion on the sentence: haven't read or thought about the facts and evidence.
Am far more concerned about clearer cases of more serious sexual abuse where the local police authority has chosen not to intervene, or, when it has, the CPS has decided not to to prosecute.
Most recent example Telford. At least a thousand twelve to sixteen (or were they nineteen?) year old girls victims of rape and two hundred local men known to the police as possible perpetrators. So in this instance the police had investigated and presented a case, but the CPS had decided not to prosecute.
This was only towards the end of last year. Already a
distant memory. Doubt Spath knew about it in the first place, or, if he did, thought it a matter of the least importance. No feminist outrage, #MeToo lot invisible, and the great and the good of AB - and let's face it, they are both great and good - far more concerned about Tommy Robinson's "exploitation" of mass rap as an issue than mass rape itself.