The BBFC noted:     
-       Cut required to scene of sexual assault on  young girl to address the specific danger that video enables the scene  to be used to stimulate and validate abusive action. 
 
        Further details were supplied after an email query to the BBFC:          The cinema version was passed '18' uncut  following expert legal advice. Nevertheless the Board was concerned by  the film's climactic scene, which shows an under-aged girl - played by a  13 year old actress - being raped. Our legal     advice confirmed that the scene was not indecent within the meaning  of the Protection of Children Act 1978 and the Board therefore agreed to  pass the scene intact. 
    
    The Board also took the opinion of a leading consultant clinical  psychologist at the time of the original cinema submission. He expressed  a concern that, in his clinical experience, the rape sequence could  potentially be used by paedophiles to 'groom'     their victims. The Board was satisfied, however, that this concern  about potential abuse was minimal in the context of an adult cinema  release where the possibility of children being taken to the cinema for  grooming was remote. 
    
    Videos, by contrast, are more easily accessible for personal use by  abusive individuals and the risk of the video's use for grooming was  felt to be far higher. Furthermore, the potential for the scene to be  played repeatedly and out of context on video     concerned the Board far more so than on film. It was felt therefore  that, on video, the scene presented a particular problem as both  stimulus material and to validate abusive behaviour. The Board's  concerns were confirmed by a further opinion from a second     consultant psychologist specifically in relation to the video  release, which echoed the opinion of her colleague. The scene was  therefore removed in its entirety on video.