The fact that three boys avoided prison sentences for their part in the rape of two girls is another appalling case of ‘himpathy’, says lawyer Charlotte Proudman – there is something uniquely culturally ingrained about seeing boys as fundamentally salvageable, while girls are expected simply to absorb the damage T wo schoolgirls had their lives irrevocably altered by acts of extreme sexual violence . One was 15 when she was targeted on Snapchat, lured to an underpass and assaulted while the