Tuesday, 11 December 2007

The bad and the ugly

Judge says 10yo "probably agreed" to have sex ..with nine men and teenage boys.
Maybe I've taken this out of context, but the Queensland Government's announcement it will review all criminal sentences in Cape York communities from the past two years is sensible if this thinking is the norm.
Closer than Pitcairn.

Sentenced in Dunedin to 12 months' supervision, 130 hours' community work, and ordered to undertake a psychiatric assessment and counselling for infanticide : killing a baby where the woman is so disturbed by childbirth that she cannot be held fully responsible for her actions.
Not so disturbed she couldn't return alone to the bathroom later to clean up and place the apparently dead baby and her placenta into a plastic bag, and throw them out a window into the garden below, before collapsing.

What do I know? We're lucky to have competent people make such decisions for us.

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