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It is apparently OK to have sex with a 12 year old

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epicfail · 29/11/2011 09:39

No really, I kid you not. Where I live, it is absolutely fine. Just so long as you 'reasonably believe' the child to be 18. Oh, and it helps if you are also on some kind of medication that causes hypersexualisation, which in turn causes you to become 'addicted' to using prostitutes.

NONE of the other (up to 120) men who had sex with this girl will be charged, even though some have admitted to it, because the room they were in was too dark and dingy for them to have 'reasonably known' that she was 12.
Also, each case would have had to have been tried individually meaning the girl would have had to to testify each time.

www.themercury.com.au/article/2011/11/29/280691_scalesofjustice.html

The back stories are all there under the Scales of Justice heading.

I am sitting here in tears of impotent frustration. How? HOW can this happen?

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jamma111 · 29/11/2011 20:33

Happening elsewhere. It's a worldwide issue;

Asian Human Rights Commission - A 12 year-old Christian is gang raped for eight months, forcibly converted and then 'married' to her Muslim attacker

This one though hasn't seen a prosecution...other than a threat by police against the parents of the child.

msrisotto · 29/11/2011 16:57

Fuck the world still surprises me sometimes.

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epicfail · 29/11/2011 11:03

suburbophobe the sentence was handed down quite late today our time. Outrage will no doubt boil over in tomorrow's media. There have already been petitions to the government (over 12 months ago) relating to the non-prosecution of any of the other 100 or so men. Obviously these had no effect.

How can this judge live with himself. Surely the posession of child porn (some of it depicting children as young as 8), in itself would have been grounds for a tougher sentence.

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epicfail · 29/11/2011 10:45

The mother and step-father/pimp received 10 year jail sentences.

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 29/11/2011 10:36

Oh my actual god, this is just awful. :(

So if your medication makes you really need sexual relief, it's ok to use the body of a child to give you that relief? That's a mitigating factor in some way?

"Justice Porter chose to give extensive reasons for his decision not to jail Martin" - oh, would it be that he just really really didn't want to? He's such a fine upstanding citizen and all.

SnapesMistress · 29/11/2011 10:34

Disgusting, Even the jury said that there was no way he could have thought she was 18.

littleducks · 29/11/2011 09:58

What has happened to the mother?

suburbophobe · 29/11/2011 09:54

Ugh, disgusting! An MP and a mayor no less...

Shocked that a. he's let off and b. that the judge blames the medication...

That poor poor child being prostituted by her mother.

The mind boggles.

Are you in Australia? Can you get some kind of uproar going? Surely everyone with a sense of decency must be shocked and horrified by this.