Our thanks to Bryn for this. As always with female paedophiles, an attempt to excuse her behavior:
Michael Clare, who did not represent Delray at trial but appeared for her defence, said the defendant was of very low risk of re-offending.
He said she was concerned at her trial about the impression she gave to the court as she had been advised not to show her emotions.
“She feels she has been let down in the way she presented herself.”
He said she was a vulnerable individual with a number of health problems and suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome.
“Custody for her will be all the more punishment for her. She is someone who will find it extremely difficult.”
That’s not an argument you’ll ever have heard in mitigation for a male paedophile.
Justice for Men & Boys 
She was badly advised, she is sick, prison might cause her distress, she couldn’t help it, it was not her fault, the boy led her on, the boy should consider himself lucky … blah blah blah.
Yet again, a woman gets away with a serious crime for which a man would suffer not just in court but in prison, each and every day, for years.
And the reason we don’t rise up and slay these people is?
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I still can’t understand how judges come up with these sentences.
She got less time than Adam Johnson, yet her case is so much more severe in every way.
Johnson’s victim was 15, in this case the victim was 12. As I understand it, the courts supposedly treat abuse of under 13s as far more serious than those over 13.
If the age difference counts for anything then it’s of note that Johnson was no older than 28, so a 13 year age gap vs 23 years here.
Johnson didn’t even have sex with his victim and would presumably have got credit for an early guilty plea too, whereas in this case guilt was denied.
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‘I still can’t understand how judges come up with these sentences.‘
Think of a number. Double it. Add twenty five years. Take away the number you first thought of and divide by vagina, then suspend it, but only when sentencing women. Calculations for men must include the penis penalty, which cancels out vagina and is doubled if a female jury finds the defendant unattractive or ‘creepy’.
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No.
Even one who, bizarrely, has recently been jailed for having ‘sex’ with an ‘underage’ inflatable doll….
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Its quite unusual for a woman to be accused of “Grooming” That’s normally reserved for men. In the case of women its usually called “flirting” to imply a lesser degree of responsibility.
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No it’s called “flirting” because that’s what it is. The problem is that in the case of men it is also actually flirting but feminists call it “grooming” to imply some degree of evilness or malicious intent when none exists.
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“Custody for her will be all the more punishment for her. She is someone who will find it extremely difficult.”
It should not be ignored that women prisoners – all and only women prisoners by default – have their ‘gender-specific’ needs met and are housed within a part of the prison system originally intended for all prisoners coming to the end of their sentence, to acclimatise them for outside life and prepare them for living in society again.
To quote from a 2008 draft PSO:
“Women prisoners are held in conditions and within regimes that meet their gender specific needs and which facilitate their successful resettlement.”
https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/pso/PSO_4800_women_prisoners.doc
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