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To increase the minimum sentence for online grooming to ‘two years in prison’.

Submitted on Tuesday 21st February 2023

Rejected on Friday 3rd March 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

To increase the minimum sentence for online grooming to ‘two years in prison’.

Petition Details

Change the sentencing guidelines for, ‘sexual communication with a child’ from a community order to a minimum of two years in prison.

Additional Information

The rates of reoffending of defendants that receive non-custodial sentences for this crime warrants it.

To act as an effective deterrent to any individual considering committing this crime.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Sentencing guidelines are produced by the Sentencing Council, which is independent of the UK Government and Parliament.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to amend the legislation governing the offence of sexual communication with a child, so that the minimum sentence that can be given for this offence is a two year custodial sentence.

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