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Five years, eligible for parole in 2. I don't often scoff at the legal system, I want to have full trust in it, but she trapped this person for nearly ten years and it will take so many more for them to get past what happened. That's an absolute joke.
That's shocking. I'd have thought the CSAM charges alone would attract that penalty. I normally tend to err on the side of supporting shorter sentences, but just thinking about the number of different charges that would have been applicable here it's hard to see how this is right.
Again, probably because she is a woman. Also, “probability to reoffend” is a bullshit reason to give less time. She harmed this kid for 10 years and only pays 5 for it? Messed up…
There are 4 factors that a judge needs to consider.[1^] Punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, denunciation[2^], and protection of the community.
Probability to reoffend is relevant to rehabilitation and deterrence. So no, it's not a bullshit reason.
[1^]: I Victoria. I assume Queensland has a very similar list. [2^]: I don't know exactly what this is, only that the judge in Erin Patterson's case mentioned it as one of his factors.
Edit ah fuck. I can't figure out this syntax. Whatever, it's clear enough what I meant.
edit again: ah. It turns out I had the syntax right the first time, before I tried editing. But I was doing it on my phone, and Jerboa doesn't display it like lemmy-ui does.
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There are 4 factors that a judge needs to consider.[^1] Punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, denunciation[^2], and protection of the community.
Probability to reoffend is relevant to rehabilitation and deterrence. So no, it's not a bullshit reason.
[^1]: I Victoria. I assume Queensland has a very similar list. [^2]: I don't know exactly what this is, only that the judge in Erin Patterson's case mentioned it as one of his factors.
I don't mind the interactive story mode known as Odyssey that the ABC publishes some articles with, especially some science and climate/enviro pieces. But this one really threw me for a spin because the subject matter is so intense and the screen on my phone was constantly competing for my attention.
Maybe the ABC knows it's audience better than I do. Maybe using the Odyssey format for this story will help it reach the people who need to read it.
I went looking for a reader mode option in the ABC News app (I set ABC links to default to opening with this on my phone) but couldn't find one. I opened the article in a browser and hit reader mode and noticed it looked off and I think some html/CSS elements were stripped out or were missing.
I'm going to submit a request to ABC for a reader mode for all Odyssey format content. I found a couple of options to do so:
There is this App feedback form that the app links to.
There appears to also be mobilefeedback@abc.net.au
If anyone else thinks this is a good idea please submit a similar request.
This is one of two really well articles I read this week. One from ABC and one from The Age.
Good work to the journalists who know how to research and put an article together.
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