Meanwhile, out in Deliverance country ….
Well actually, this happened in Brisbane, but its the sort of thing you’d expect to see only in those far flung redneck hillbilly valleys in the Appalachians, or the Deep South of America.
A couple has been jailed for the sexual abuse of their daughter. The 35-year-old stepfather received an eight-year prison term. The girl’s 39-year-old mother was sentenced to six months’ jail and three months’ probation.
These charmers, surely candidates for parents of the year, made a pregnancy pact to inseminate their 15-year-old daughter after bearing two biological children with congenital diseases. They wrote up a “contract” with the girl, and then tried to impregnate her using the man’s sperm, which he had masturbated into a syringe. When that didn’t work, the man began having sexual intercourse with his stepdaughter up to three times a day. And Mum wasn’t exactly passively ignoring what was going on - she offered her daughter advice on the best positions to achieve their objective of getting her pregnant.
And not only that, but prosecutors told the court that he had been sexually abusing the girl since she was 12.
The couple were eventually arrested in August 2006 after the girl confided in the family of a friend who encouraged her to go to the police. As he was being arrested, the man indignantly declared: “Did you not see the f—ing contract?”
Yet another argument for compulsory sterilisation …. there are just some people who should not be allowed to breed. Actually, these people are a strong argument for retrospective abortions, even 30 odd years after their own birth.
I don’t suppose I should be surprised at the leniency of the sentences the parents got, after all Courts have been dishing out pissweak sentences forever, but I am. Hard to imagine worse cases of abuse, by both parents, so why wouldn’t this pair of delightful human beings have gotten the maximum possible sentence?
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Is it just me or has Australia just gone off the deep end with this sort of stuff?
If we’re not bitching about Iguana-gate (will that story ever go away), its Grandpa chopping up his family, parents having sex with their kids (both adult & teenage versions), or not feeding them until they die for that matter, or even making all nine of them live in squalor!
Makes the Corbys seem like the Cosbys.
Kind of makes you reminisce of the ‘good old days’ of the bodies in barrels and backpacker murders doesn’t it? At least they were actual textbook serial killers.
Or maybe that’s just me.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
Thanks for raising this. So much for being the lucky country, hey - the luckiness would only be if you are a child abuser. It is certainly not a lucky country for our kids to live in.
Sadly, stories like this happen all the time. Because of convictions being so difficult to get and laws surrounding not being able to release names where minors are concerned, far too many people get away with it and they go on to abuse again and again.
The hysteria, the blame and the shifting of responsibility around such an emotive topic causes scared people to act and say things they may not normally say. I have had my fair share of being blamed for “telling lies”, “being hysterical”, “increasing paranoia” and even for being a “man hater.” If only those scared people could channel their fear to child protection rather than blaming and taking punitive measures against those of us willing to stand up and protect kids.
Child sexual assault is rife in this country and the vast majority of research suggests that if they abuse once, they abuse again….just because they can.
Discussions like this are excellent for raising consciousness and making community responsible for child safety.
Thank you so much for blogging on this and thank you for supporting our kids. The culture is changing because people are talking about it and creating a community development approach to change.
You rock.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
DO you think Australia is going insane at the moment? Everyday, there’s another appalling story in the media featuring some kind of child abuse. It makes my heart ache.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Save money,time and their future victims - stick these mongrels in the general prison population and let some “rough justice” fix the problem, instead of molly-coddling them in solitary or with their sick peers.