Victims of sexual offences committed by children are being asked to “suck it up” for the sake of their attackers’ rehabilitation, the former safeguarding minister has said. Jess Phillips, who resigned as minister for safeguarding and violence against women earlier this month, said sentencing guidelines did not take into account a “growing trend” of children sexually abusing other children. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Ms Phillips also warned that crime may have become “content for an eyeball economy”, with serious offences being filmed “in order to make content”. Her comments come after three teenagers, who cannot be named as they are under 18, were spared jail over the rape of two girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire. Two 15-year-olds were given non-custodial sentences after raping the two girls, with a judge at Southampton Crown Court saying he wanted to “avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”. A third boy, now aged 14, was also convicted of his involvement in the second attack and an indecent images offence, and received another non-custodial sentence. The Attorney General …