Another light sentence for sick assault- oh and ‘therapy’

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I’m sick of this. This is a horrific crime and he gets home detention?

i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/110015231/senior-wellington-academic-sexually-assaulted-82yearold-rest-home-resident

I’d like to ask you if you think ‘therapy’ and ‘mental illness’ are being used to get men off or on light sentences. Because I’m seeing it a lot. I have mental health problems and it does not impact my judgement when it comes to hurting others or drink driving ( Ant McPartlin ) or whatever else they’re getting away with because they’re stressed or suffer depression. Sorry but if they’re dangerous then I don’t understand why they get lighter punishment because they have mental illness. One of the purposes of our judicial system is to protect us. I spoke to someone from a sports organisation this week about a guy who got off conviction after publicly beating his partner. Same excuses there. It’s a behavioural issue not a character trait. He’s going through therapy... I mean, the rate of reoffending is high so what the heck is this therapy even achieving?? I am ranting but I’m just so angry at these pitiful sentences and the constant use of mental illness as a way of diminishing responsibility. It doesn’t matter if women are old and incontinent, in a vegetative state, or an 18 month old baby... we are never fucking safe

It’s pretty fucking disturbing. I wonder if Jacinda, who the left love to fawn over, will step in on this like she does when she has little chats to celebrities about their wants.

It just sickens me how often in these cases there is a judge at the center who empathizes faaaar too much with the rapist. "Oh, poor thing, think of his reputation! Think of his future! All over one little mistake that could happen to anyone."

Always makes me wonder about those judges.

Me too. Nobody cares when women cry. Yet men cry and say how sorry they are and how their life is ruined, and they get tea and sympathy. Fuck that judge.

Bastard.

Had to get that off my chest. That poor woman will never, ever feel safe again.

What about chemical castration for sex offenders? Why can’t we do that? I am assuming it would be an infringement of their ‘human rights’.
They take the prescriptions willingly, it's not a one-off injection. As such it's very open to abuse:
Some criminologists argue that the appearance of a lower recidivism rate in male sex offenders who take chemical castration treatment than in those who do not can be explained by factors other than biological effects of the medication. One hypothesis is that men who accept the negative effects of hormonal treatment in exchange for shorter prison sentence are distinct in that they value freedom from incarceration higher than men who rather stay in prison for a longer time than face the side effects of chemical castration. These criminologists explain apparently lower recidivism as an artifact of men who accept chemical castration being more engaged in hiding the evidence for reoffending, and that paroling such offenders constitute a risk of releasing criminals who commit as many new crimes as others but are better at hiding it. These criminologists also argue that police investigators treating castrated men as less likely to reoffend than non-castrated men may cause an investigation bias and self-fulfilling prophecy, and that men who sell some of their prescribed medicines on the black market for drugs get a hidden income that improve their ability to afford measures to hide recidivism that is not available to men without such prescriptions.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration
I wouldn't want to rely on a sex offender's word, put it that way.

Sorry I forgot to mention that they refer to a lower recidivism rate so even if an offender takes his meds religiously and doesn't sell them on, he's still not guaranteed to stop offending.
Also I'm not convinced surgical castration would work, not that is advocate something as barbaric as that - but as humans a great deal of our sexual urges and sexual thoughts/feelings are in the mind. We're not like animals that go on heat. So removing the physical source of testosterone and sperm production isn't going to stop sexual urges altogether, otherwise post-op transwomen would all be sexless.

FlyingOink thank you for that, I didn’t understand much about it.

Grant Hannis. Well let's make sure that his name is shared as often as possible on the internet .

OP - I share your horror at what has happened. Like so many women, I find contemplating the repeated evil acts that so many men commit against the vulnerable, soul destroying. I know NAMALT but too many are. And Grant Hannis is one of them.

It's horrible. I really hope that now he has been named, if there are more victims (seems likely as others have said) that the y come forward and he gets a longer sentence.

I'm from NZ too, I think it's hard for people to understand the ingrained sexism about some things from outside.

I'm from NZ too, I think it's hard for people to understand the ingrained sexism about some things from outside

Yes it is. I had a very long discussion with the communications manager of NZ Rugby about their handling of the most recent player to commit DV. It was enlightening and extremely frank. One thing I got out of it, is they don’t really know what to do. Do they let the judicial system deal with it? Or do they have a zero tolerance policy regardless of the outcome of any case. In addition, how can they change the culture there when so many don’t get it, have never experienced or even discussed DV much at all, or have any idea of the appropriate way to speak about it when one of their players does it. They agreed they need to talk to more people who’ve experienced it, and address their approach so far- which is not to penalise them by not letting them play.