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cynicalninja Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Smiling Shinobi
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Rape case ruling shocks Australia Sexual abuse has been a noted problem in indigenous communities A judge's decision not to jail nine men guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl in an Aboriginal community has triggered outrage in Australia. The offenders were either placed on probation or given suspended sentences for the 2005 rape in the Aurukun settlement, in northern Queensland. In her ruling, Judge Sarah Bradley told them that the victim "probably agreed to have sex with all of you". A review of sexual abuse sentences in Aboriginal Queensland has been ordered. Sentencing seven of the accused in Cairns in October, Judge Bradley told them that the girl involved was not forced into sex, according to a report in The Australian newspaper. She placed six of the offenders, who were minors at the time of the rape, on probation for 12 months, local media said. The three other defendants were handed suspended six-month prison sentences. Judge Bradley later defended her sentencing, telling The Australian that the sentences were "appropriate" because they were the penalties sought by the prosecution. 'No excuse' But Australia's newly-elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has now spoken out against the ruling, saying he was "appalled" by the verdict. "I am horrified by cases like this, involving sexual violence against women and children. My attitude is one of zero tolerance," he told reporters in Queensland, his home state. Boni Robertson, an Aboriginal activist in Queensland, said there could be no excuse for the judge's decision. "There is nothing culturally, there is nothing morally, there is nothing socially and there is definitely nothing legally that would ever allow this sort of decision to be made," she said. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has now announced a review of all sentences given over the last two years in the communities in the Cape York region where the case occurred. "I am not prepared to just write this off as an unusual one-off case," she said. "I want to satisfy myself that the people of Cape York, and the people who live in remote indigenous communities, are receiving the same level of justice as we can expect in any other community in Queensland." 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. That inquiry led to an intervention programme in the Northern Territory.
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AussiePam Original500© Member  Wild Child
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Indeed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I personally am totally sick of excuses being made because the people involved happen to be Aboriginal or of ethnic descent and therefore some limpwristed folk feel it's culturally sensitive not to apply the normal laws of Australia to them. Bugger that. And bugger political correctness anyway. This is not a fifteen year old girl who had consensual sex with a seventeen year old boy - where in my opinion the legal situation (it's still statutory rape) doesn't quite fit the reality. The little girl in this case is ten years old. A similar age to that of the little girls whose genitals are mutilated in line with certain ethnic traditions. It's good the case has hit the media. The previous federal government got into a lot of trouble for trying to intervene in what is usually considered a State matter, to improve the chances of children of both sexes in some Aboriginal settlements of not being routinely sexually abused. I don't give a damn if Aboriginals were here first. We were all somewhere first, and got conquered and moved on etc etc. The laws of the land apply to all Australians, old and new, including the middle eastern young men in Sydney who recently indulged in some packraping of pale skinned girls out of racial contempt and were appropriately dealt with. We need to protect children from all kinds of predation.
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cynicalninja wrote: In her ruling, Judge Sarah Bradley told them that the victim "probably agreed to have sex with all of you". Unless the laws are so very different than here in America, I would have thought that 10 year old kids there can't give legal consent for something like having sex with adults. Similar to how they can't have binding contracts because they signed it.
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AussiePam Original500© Member Wild Child
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Sixteen is the age of consent in Australia. That any judge even considered the possibility of consent in this case is ludicrous.
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AussiePam Original500© Member Wild Child
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The plot thickens. The latest reports say this little girl was pack raped first at the age of 7, taken into a non-indigenous (oh horror!) foster home, then foreceably returned to her 'reservation' by welfare people, where this second pack rape took place. It added that she has contracted venereal disease. She is now 11.
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