Sentencing in Australia is a disgrace

[bunyip]

This is an interesting one. I wonder what penalty the journo will receive.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25108063-5012980,00.html

A CURRENT Affair reporter Ben Fordham and his producer expect to be charged over a hidden camera investigation they say headed off a murder.

Fordham posed as an accomplice to an alleged hitman who was approached by a Sydney man to kill another man.

The ACA report said the man wanted to kill the target because he was blackmailing a friend of his.
The story, which relied heavily on the use of hidden cameras and microphones, aired on ACA last year.

On ACA on Wednesday night, Fordham said he and producer Andrew Byrne expected to be charged by NSW Police at their office.

Ben Fordham is quite a well known face on Australian TV these days. Was he wearing a disguise when he posed as a hit mans accomplice, or do these crims watch so little TV that they'd never seen him on the screen?

 

[GumbyLearner]

If we're not competent in this country to draft some effective crime-fighting policies, and implement them, then call in a team of experts from some country with a proven track record in crime control.

I'm hearing you Bunyip.
Just need the message to go to the NSW Crime Commission.

Here's an interesting article

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/general/crime-and-banishment/1440752.aspx

Crime and Banishment

Respect runs deep among the Calabrians who man the stalls at Melbourne's Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable market. Even when police come calling, as in the early 1990s when market identities began turning up dead, deference is paid to those with influence.


In 1992, when homicide detectives asked the fruitshop owner Antonio Madafferi what he thought of Liborio Benvenuto, the undisputed Mafia godfather of Melbourne, he replied: "A very good man. Very honest and he was respected everywhere."


Madafferi also impressed upon the interviewing detectives that he, too, was a man of influence. "I am a man who is very respected at the market."


Bruce Billson, the Liberal MP, also thinks Madafferi is a decent chap, although his interaction with the Calabrian-born greengrocer is limited to fund-raising events. "I met him at functions. He seems a nice guy," Billson says.

 

[MrBurns]

This creep will be released among the public in under 8 years to mix with your relatives, children, everyone -

Sex attacker jailed for eight years

A man who carried out a "callous and brutal" sex attack on a seven-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother has been sentenced to eight years' jail.

Adam Bradley Field, 19, pleaded guilty in the West Australian District Court to charges arising from the attack on the pair as they walked home from their suburban Perth primary school on November 11 last year.

The court was told the girl had been so traumatised that her medical examination took place under general anaesthetic.

Field had enticed the siblings into bushland, where he assaulted them one by one, making each one watch while the other was being harmed.

He broke down in court as prosecutor Kate Cook read out graphic details of the sex attacks.

Ms Cook said Field had drunk four middies and two pints of beer at the local pub before walking home via his old primary school, where he went into the toilets.

He was discovered by a teacher, who escorted him to his home nearby.

But he returned to the area of bushland near the school, where he approached the children and asked them if they wanted to see a cat with a stick in its ear.

Field initially admitted hurting the children but said he could not recall details of the events, the court was told.

Field's lawyer Philip Urquhart said Field was remorseful and felt he had nothing left to live for.

A victim of sexual abuse from the age of eight, who was abandoned by his father, Field was a poor performer at school and had taken up drinking and drugs in his teenage years.

"Virtually every day last year ... was spent drinking and drug taking," Mr Urquhart said.

Field pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual penetration, two counts of indecent dealing and two counts of unlawful detention, and a separate charge of assaulting a taxi driver.

Judge Christopher Stevenson said Field's cooperation with police was a mitigating factor, along with his sexual abuse as a child.

But it was a serious offence in which Field had carried out a "callous and brutal sexual assault using force and coercion", he said.

Judge Stevenson sentenced him to eight years on the sex and abduction charges, and another year for assaulting the taxi driver.

Field will be eligible for parole but the term was not specified

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/757762/sex-attacker-jailed-for-eight-years

 

[bunyip]

This creep will be released among the public in under 8 years to mix with your relatives, children, everyone -



http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/757762/sex-attacker-jailed-for-eight-years

They'd probably hang this bastard in Singapore, and everyone would agree the world is a better place without him.

 

[MrBurns]

They'd probably hang this bastard in Singapore, and everyone would agree the world is a better place without him.

I cant get over this -

The court was told the girl had been so traumatised that her medical examination took place under general anaesthetic.

I would personally put the rope around his neck and pull the trapdoor.

The system is not good enough to deal with people like this, yes the system has cost us so many millions it would float a few banks in the US but they still cant deal with a creep like this.

They will spend countless dollars housing , treating , watching then let him out, it's not good enough I think we could start a political party on this issue alone. anyone in ?

 

[Calliope]

Every time there is a state election we are given promises on improving "Law and Order". Both sides equate the level of law and order to police numbers, although they obviously know better.

They know as well as we do that the biggest impediment to L&O is the Judiciary. This problem has arisen through a succession of Labor governments stacking the benches with bleeding heart magistrates and judges.

 

[MrBurns]

They know as well as we do that the biggest impediment to L&O is the Judiciary. This problem has arisen through a succession of Labor governments stacking the benches with bleeding heart magistrates and judges.

Knew it was the judiciary but you've enlightened us with the reason why, I think you nailed it.

 

[GumbyLearner]

Knew it was the judiciary but you've enlightened us with the reason why, I think you nailed it.

Yeah you guys are great at nailing Labor for everything.

Have you got anything to say about Mandy "The Gland" Vanstone?

I bet she her orders her "special" made clothes straight to the embassy in Italy from her crooked fat buddies!

 

[Calliope]

Yeah you guys are great at nailing Labor for everything.

Well, not everything. But as all the State governments except one are Labor, and the judiciary are reluctant to jail anybody, I think it is safe to assume that they were appointed for this very reason.

The judges and magistrates are well aware that, if they hand down custodial sentences to all offenders who deserve jail, there is no accommodation for them. Like our hospitals the jails are overcrowded and can take only the most serious cases

 

[MrBurns]

Yeah you guys are great at nailing Labor for everything.

Well labor are responsible for all things bad because they are tossers and they now have a leader who could toss for his country he's so good at it.

Libs = jobs and prosperity.

Labor= recession, unemployment and financial upheaval,

You can argue with me but you cant argue with the facts.

 

[bunyip]

Yeah you guys are great at nailing Labor for everything.

Nailing Labor is great sport!

If you'll looking for someone to nail, who better than a motley collection of damned unionists, a union lawyer, and a shaven-headed rock star greenie, led by a powderpuff who I'm embarrassed to call a fellow Queenslander, all masquerading as politicians and economic managers, recklessly chucking money around like drunken sailors.

Australians will rue the day they voted this mob in....not that I voted for them myself.

 

[MrBurns]

Nailing Labor is great sport!

If you'll looking for someone to nail, who better than a motley collection of damned unionists, a union lawyer, and a shaven-headed rock star greenie, led by a powderpuff who I'm embarrassed to call a fellow Queenslander, all masquerading as politicians and economic managers, recklessly chucking money around like drunken sailors.

Australians will rue the day they voted this mob in....not that I voted for them myself.

ROFL

 

[GumbyLearner]

Nailing Labor is great sport!

If you'll looking for someone to nail, who better than a motley collection of damned unionists, a union lawyer, and a shaven-headed rock star greenie, led by a powderpuff who I'm embarrassed to call a fellow Queenslander, all masquerading as politicians and economic managers, recklessly chucking money around like drunken sailors.

Australians will rue the day they voted this mob in....not that I voted for them myself.

Thats a fair call Bunyip. But Im looking for Australian Federal Police to nail the mob for the largest ecstacy bust in the world. And what better way than to nail the Liberal Party of Australia for the political campaign donations they happily collected from the godfather of the biggest drug mob than Madaferri himself.

Glandstone overuled her own department twice to give the guy a 'visa' because of his poor 'mental condition'. While at the same time putting primary school children in prisons in the desert for simply being the children of refugees. Remember when JH claimed parents threw their children overboard?
Gee how can we build bigger prisons to put the little refugee kids in, by banning the Liberals for accepting cash from Mafia-Overlords and making them pay taxes.


I'm ashamed to call myself Australian, when a drug cartel can get raided and discovered with 100 millions of dollars worth of drugs, pay favour money to the Liberal Party and pay no taxes on the crap they are shoving down kids throats.

And you can include those other Liberals who all put in special words for their gangster buddy not just Glandstone. Dillson and Pain etc...

Anyway, that's history and now Glandstone has moved onto Europe.

CUT THE CRAP!

 

[MrBurns]

Ever hear of a sentence like this here ? No it would have been 15 years with early parole.

LA gang member jailed for actor's death

A Los Angeles gang member has been sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for killing Judging Amy teen actress Tara Correa-McMullen and another victim.

Damien Watts, 23, was sentenced to consecutive life terms on Friday.

Correa-McMullen appeared in the movie Rebound and had a recurring role on the US television series Judging Amy.

 

[GumbyLearner]

Ever hear of a sentence like this here ? No it would have been 15 years with early parole.

No but most people even "tossers" know about these ones.

"While at the same time putting primary school children in prisons in the desert for simply being the children of refugees."

Sentencing in Australia IS a disgrace.

 

[MrBurns]

No but most people even "tossers" know about these ones.

"While at the same time putting primary school children in prisons in the desert for simply being the children of refugees."

Sentencing in Australia IS a disgrace.

Where would YOU put the children of illegal immigrants ?

They have no family here , send them home ?

 

[GumbyLearner]

Where would YOU put the children of illegal immigrants ?

They have no family here , send them home ?

Not in prison that's for sure.

 

[bunyip]

Not in prison that's for sure.

So Gumby...in answer to Burnsy's question, where would you put the children of illegal immigrants?

And as for 'prisons in the desert', well, you're entitled to your opinion on that, but if you visited those immigration camps in the desert, and then visited a real prison, I feel pretty sure you'd find some very significant differences. Perhaps some similarities too, but certainly some very real differences.

Anyway, where would you put those kids while their parents are being processed through the system?

 

[GumbyLearner]

So Gumby...in answer to Burnsy's question, where would you put the children of illegal immigrants?

And as for 'prisons in the desert', well, you're entitled to your opinion on that, but if you visited those immigration camps in the desert, and then visited a real prison, I feel pretty sure you'd find some very significant differences. Perhaps some similarities too, but certainly some very real differences.

Anyway, where would you put those kids while their parents are being processed through the system?

In a house in a residential area closeby to a well-funded public school and local facilities. Thats where most human beings live.

 

[MrBurns]

In a house in a residential area closeby to a well-funded public school and local facilities. Thats where most human beings live.

So you would separate them from their parents ? Compo compo !!!!!

Gee if you can find conditions like that let me know and I'll move there.

Havent seen a well funded public school since the 70's but there plenty of money to throw kero on an already over inflated housing bubble, yeah roll out the millions for that little vote grabber. I look into Rudds eyes and see nothing, scary Hitler...ish.