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Rape of 10 year old by 9 men does not attract custodial sentences

84 replies

Freckle · 10/12/2007 19:28

How bloody appalling. What makes it worse is that the judge is a women and said in court that the girl "probably agreed to have sex with the rapists". How can a 10 year old possibly consent to be raped?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7136269.stm

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Kathyate6mincepies · 10/12/2007 19:30

Yes, I saw this. Bizarre. What's going on do you think - is it dinosaur blokeishness like we have had here in the past with Judge Pickles etc? or over-pc-cultural-relativists who think it's different because it's Aborigines?

Kathyate6mincepies · 10/12/2007 19:31

oh just seen that judge was a woman. Hmm.

LoveAngelGabriel · 10/12/2007 19:31

That is deeply disturbing. What was the judge thinking???? How can a 10 yr old ever be deemed to have given consent to have sex (be raped)?

LittleSleighBellasRinging · 10/12/2007 22:47

Is this some kind of racism?

Or has the judge been bribed?

I can't really think of any other explanation.

CarmenerryChristmas · 10/12/2007 22:51
Piffle · 10/12/2007 22:51

quote

The offenders came from some of the most powerful and prominent Aboriginal families in Cape York, while the victim's family had a lower status, The Australian reported.

The case comes six months after a high-profile inquiry into child sex abuse in remote northern Australia said it found problems in every Aborigine community visited by researchers

says everything...
bloody shocking

paulaplumpbottom · 10/12/2007 22:52

Its just too awful to think about. Poor thing, even a custodial sentence would ahave been too good for those bastards

Saturn74 · 10/12/2007 22:54
Sad
JingleyJen · 10/12/2007 22:54

I can't allow myself to click on the link - but whatever the circumstances the decision is awful and wrong.

edam · 10/12/2007 22:58

Good grief.

amytheearwaxbanisher · 10/12/2007 23:05

how awful

NappiesGaloriaInExcelsis · 10/12/2007 23:06

by the sounds of it, those boys/men (some were underage at time of rape?) had every expectation that theyd get away with it. which suggests to me that people have been getting away with this sort of thing for a long time.

god the l;egacy of nicking peoples countries from under them is really quite a delightful thing, eh?

Elizabetth · 10/12/2007 23:17

This isn't the first time that gang rapists in Australia have got away with it though. Eleven teenage boys raped a developmentally disabled girl, urinated on her, made a video of it that they sold to their school friends (naming it Cnt, the video) and were given probation and supsended sentences and counselling*.

It's not about people being Aboriginal, it's about rapists being allowed to get away with it:

www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22865326-2862,00.html

ISawSantaKissingKerrysNorks · 10/12/2007 23:23

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VVVExcitedAboutChristmasQV · 10/12/2007 23:55

At the very least, under-age sex invokes a fairly hefty sentence in the UK, usually. The mitigation for a 10 year old (and there is a vast difference between a 10 year old than 13/14 year old - and that is still young), should have resulted in a more serious sentence.

That isnt even factoring in the rape aspect of the crime.

Farking hell they have problems over there

pagwatch · 12/12/2007 15:04

The ONLY comfort is that it does at least seem to have created appropriate levels of outrage over there.
Absoloutely unbelievable

Hulababy · 12/12/2007 15:06

It is horrendous. I was stunned when I heard it on the news yesterday. And somehow the judge being a woman makes it feel even worse. Poor child

HappyChristmasWalrusIsOver · 12/12/2007 15:09

I am disgusted by this story.

SueBaRoomForAMincePie · 12/12/2007 15:18

I read earlier that the girl had already been gang-raped before - when she was 7.

geekymummy · 12/12/2007 16:53
Sad
Blandmum · 12/12/2007 16:58

But at 10 she can't give consent. It isn't hers to give!

and at 10 she must have looked underage!

cestlavie · 12/12/2007 17:13

At the risk of sounding potentially racist, but really not intending to be, the Aboriginal community in Australia has absolutely desperate problems including appallingly high rates of substance abuse, unemployment and crime.

Child abuse in these communities is also appallingly high (as many as three in five kids in some communities) not least due to parental neglect, substance abuse (including by minors), the lack of any effective policing in the communities, the deliberate isolation of the communities and a inherently sexist culture.

It seems, from what little I know, that the Australian government until recently really did not care about any of these issues, ignored the rising crime, poverty and abuse and preferred to keep the Aborigines out of the way and let them deal with the problems themselves whilst giving them sod all money or support to do so. It's only in the last couple of years that these sort of cases have even started to come before the courts.

ernest · 12/12/2007 17:43

the news last night said she was born with foetal alcohol syndrome and as a result is 'educationally subnormal' or whatever the phrase they used was. Surely being already damaged, in utero, she is even less able to make such a decision, tho the idea of an adult saying a 10 year old little girl giving her consent to being gang raped is totally preposterous and sickening.

LittleSleighBellasRinging · 12/12/2007 17:55

Who is the judge?

It is such an odd thing for a formally educated woman to say.

Makes you wonder if she is a real judge