Immigrant In Australia Avoids Jail For Sexual Assaults Because of Cultural Differences.

This verdict is abhorrent. It speaks to the willingness of some to still blame the victim regarding sexual assault. Shame, Australia, shame.
 

The judge does not absolve him. He placed him on probation with conditions he must fulfill.

A Victorian teenager who groped several woman in the surf at a Gold Coast beach has avoided conviction.

The boy, who was born overseas (Pakistan) and whose actual age is unknown due to a lack of records, pleaded guilty to nine counts of sexual assault and three counts of common assault at a Children's Court hearing at Southport on Wednesday.

He has been placed on a two-year probation order for what Judge David Kent described as "serious" offences.

The court heard the boy touched eight women aged between 15 and 24 in the surf at Surfers Paradise beach on January 12, 2016. Prosecutor Nicholas McGhee told the court the assaults variously included the boy touching his victims' buttocks, ******s and breasts, sometimes under their bikinis.

Mr McGhee said after raising the alarm with a local lifeguard, several of the women identified the boy in the water swimming behind other complainants in "quite a predatory manner".

"People should enjoy the right to enjoy the right to have fun at the beach without being sexually assaulted or assaulted by a stranger," Mr McGhee said.

Judge Kent ordered the boy to undergo a "positive sexuality" course as part of his probation and said while his immersion in a new culture partially explained his actions, it didn't absolve him.

"This is obviously unacceptable behaviour but it is also criminal behaviour," he said. "Your behaviour had significant impact on at least two of the complainants. "The impacts on them have been considerable."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/35160829/vic-teen-to-be-sentenced-for-sex-attacks/#page1
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This is not political correctness. IMO it is a common sense judgement that aims to correct unacceptable behaviour with social education. I cannot see that a custodial sentence would be a better result, given that this is where radicalisation often takes place.
 
PC or not, the idea that a person can act this way and then be turned loose so quickly offends me, as a woman, deeply. Would a native Australian have been treated so gently? Equality before the law is equality before the law -- you shouldn't get a pass on sexual misconduct because you were born somewhere else. I find it impossible to believe that this young man did not know what he was doing was unacceptable conduct and wrong!
 
Wayne said:
Such things sometimes happen with all the liberal views more will follow, the libs should be so happy, sad for the victims
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It is a lot easier to be "politically correct" when you aren't the victim or in a position to likely become one... just saying.
 

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