• A man who raped a 13-year-old schoolgirl in a park when he was 17 has avoided a prison sentence.
• Sean Hogg, 21, attacked the girl in Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian, on various occasions between March and June 2018.
• Judge Lord Lake said that if the offence had been committed by an adult over 25, Hogg would have received a jail sentence of four or five years.
• Instead he was ordered to do 270 hours of unpaid work.

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