Where’s The Outrage This Time?
A few days back people were up in arms about a school teacher and a teddy bear, and [justifiably] about a woman being punished for being gang raped, how come they aren’t equally upset about a 10 year old Australian Aboriginal girl getting gang raped – and the judge handing out suspended sentences all ’round?
Revelations that a judge released nine people who had been found guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl because she “probably agreed to have sex” have sparked a massive round of soul-searching within Australia about the problem of abuse within Aboriginal communities.
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Ms Bradley told the offenders in her sentencing remarks that it was illegal to have sex with anyone younger than 16, but that the victim in this case “was not forced and she probably agreed to have sex with all of you,”
Sure she did you racist sack of shit your honour, all 10 year old girls have the capacity to make such a decision.
I’m not gonna bother asking if the judge would have arrived at the same conclusion if it had been a little white girl who was gang raped but somehow I can imagine it would be somewhat different than a bunch of suspended sentences
– if there was ever a case to be made for public flogging in this day and age district court judge Sarah Bradley makes it.
Here’s one from the Blogging Tory side:
Unfortunately, the commentators go on in another post about this being a symptom of a weak, “liberal” judicial system.
I have read plenty of outrage on the few blogs that have picked this up. Judging from comments by alleged Aussies, the problem (this and other cases) is cultural relativism (or racism, if you prefer): reluctance to impose white man’s justice.
[...] "she’s not white" card was played pretty much instaneously, along with the "woe is me, there’s no outrage, boo fucking hoo" [...]
Those 10 men deserve the full punishment under the law. In fact, this kind of situation deserves the kind of justice only a lynch mob can provide.
I have a sibling who endured the same sadistic treatment with her biological family 25 years ago (at the age of 11) and lives with the emotional issues to this day. Her abusers never saw the inside of a courtroom, were never arrested, and will never see prison (at least not as a result of their abuse of my sister).
If my parents had not adopted my sister when they did, she would have endured the same treatment for years – well into adulthood methinks.
In cases like this – cultural sensitivity flies straight out the window. Unfortunately this kind of “justice” takes place here in Canada too. Judges who think they are doing well-by-the-culture sometimes do just the opposite.
Absolutely disgusting. And the fact that the judge who made this decision is a woman makes it all the more horrific. Does Australia not have statutory rape laws?