There is alot of politics involved in this. As usual, Lionnoisy
did the cut and paste program again without looking at the big
picture.
The four juveniles are aged 14 to 16 years. They and the adults
come from some of the most prominent and powerful Aboriginal
families on Cape York. .....
The child victim, now aged 12, does not enjoy the elevated family
status of her attackers, and has had to be removed from Aurukun and
put with foster parents.
News of the non-custodial sentences has added to the violent
hatreds that exist in Aurukun between families and tribes and which
have played a part in recent brawls involving dozens of assailants,
many armed with sticks and spears.
Above was taken out of the report.
They even had to remove the girl from the community. So unless
Lionnoisy can come up with the court transcript - she/he shouldn't
be yapping about it gleefully .
If the judge gave the maximum sentence - the likely card played by
some of the guilty indigenous parties are racism and insensitivity to "cultural
beliefs" of the indigenous people.
The intervention in NT to prevent sexual abuse in communities even
had a few people here quoting it as " a form of racism" .
The judge gave the minimum sentence - so now the general community
in the affected area and Australia are not happy . The PM is
looking into it . The judge has to answer for it now and I doubt
answering to the PM and the Attorney General is any fun .
