I understand this event to signify a shift away from this kind of activity:

Garland, Kids Stuff

In the above story a female teenager was brutally raped by a gang of boys who filmed the scene on their mobile phones, then sent the footage to school friends at a private school and posted on the internet. The category here is 'perversion', which is understood to combine feelings of revenge, triumph and control. In the psychoanalytic account of perversion these feelings are understood as a defence against experiencing trauma and helplessness.

It's what you 's see on free-to air television --say Law and Order Special Victims Unit, which is concerned with crimes involving sexual assault.

The explanation for perversion on Law and Order is a conservative one---primal biological instincts.It is the medical-legal view of perversion, whose history is a moralism with respect to sexuality, a desire for social control over sexuality, a schema of the fragile population and the "dangerous population" , and a process where society condemns the criminal himself – “pervert” – and instead of punishing the act, criminalizes a person or a category of the population. The focus is changing from criminal acts to the definition of dangerous individuals.

Foucualt says :

what is emerging is a new penal system, a new legislative system, whose function is not so much to punish offenses against these general laws concerning decency, as to protect populations and parts of populations regarded as particularly vulnerable. In other words, the legislator will not justify the measures that he is proposing by saying: the universal decency of mankind must be defended. What he will say is: there are people for whom others' sexuality may become a permanent danger. In this catagory, of course, are children, who may find themselves at the mercy of an adult sexuality that is alien to them and may well be harmful to them. Hence there is a legislation that appeals to this notion of a vulnerable population, a "high-risk population,"as they say, and to a whole body of psychiatric and psychological knowledge imbibed from psychoanalysis - it doesn't really matter whether the psychoanalysis is good or bad -