The 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.
Judge Sarah Bradley told them that the victim "probably agreed to have sex with all of you".
The Judge told them that the girl involved was not forced into sex.
She placed six of the offenders, who were minors at the time of the rape, on probation for 12 months.The three other defendants were handed suspended six-month prison sentences.
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has spoken out against the ruling, saying he was "appalled" by the verdict . "My attitude is one of zero tolerance."
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.
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.
Judges and their wisdom doesn't really impress me much, talk about power corrupting.
They hand doon sentences without even reading the evidence as their minds have already been made up by their own bias and busy schedule.
You'd think a female would have more sensitivity in a rape case. It reminds me of Judge Pickles saying the rape victim was asking for it by the way she was dressed except this time race may also have played a factor in it.
The judge said she probably agreed to have sex with all of you, that sounds like her own opinion and not based on fact.
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The whole thing had a racial bent. Apparently there's a belief that this sort of thing is somehow culturally appropriate in the aboriginal community. It's mostly white liberals who hold this view. I have read a white Guardian columnist justifying anti-gay bigotry by a black British man along similar lines.
The rapists should be fucking castrated and the judge disbarred. Extenuating circumstances in the violation of a child? What bullshit.
here I am.
The very last time I was raped back in the 70's, I never went to the authorities because I knew, back then, that they'd say it was because the way I was dressed. It's a sad commentary now and then. But I have an answer;
Hopefully, somehow they go to prison. When they come out of the shower, with just that provocative towel wrapped vicariously around their waist, I hope Bubba slams it home and then...you live, you learn.
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