The 17-year-old attacker shared the 40-second video on social media, showing himself repeatedly yelling "you wanna be gay?" while driving heavy work boots into Nathan's face.
According to court documents, his attacker was suspected of multiple similar gay bashings.But the teenager, who cannot be named because he was a juvenile, walked free on nine months' probation last October with no conviction recorded, after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery.
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That is absolutely disgusting, the judge that allowed his release needs to take a good long hard look at himself/herself.
Disgusting.
Something Minns leaves out as he legislates to heavily arm NSW police force is that our legal system already should be dealing with these vile thugs.
There is something wrong when someone walks away on 9 months probation for bashing a person almost to death for their sexuality. 17 or otherwise, that is just so far beyond the pale. Heavily armed police forces will do NOTHING to stop attacks such as this one.
But Minns has a habit of seeing a tragedy and using it to stomp down on our civic rights. The Dural Caravan Bomb Hoax, he knew that was a hoax and used it to push protest legislation. Same with the Bondi Shooting, he didn’t reform the NSW Gun Registry, he pushed anti-protest laws that mysteriously lasted until juuust after Herzog left.
And for good measure, don’t forget how he abuses the courts to prevent union action or protest action.
Minns has no conscience and he doesn’t care about your voice.
These judges aren’t just making bullshit decisions that result in poor outcomes for the community, they actually result in worse long term outcomes for the child perpetrator.
Juvenile justice in NSW is not the same as adult prison. Kids get access to special education, mental healthcare and other allied healthcare like speech pathology, audiology and OT.
They have routines and the care and supervision of adults invested in their well-being, which is more than many of them get at home.
In cases like this, they can get treatment from specialists trained in anti-extremism.
It’s absolutely not perfect and every system with any degree of power over the vulnerable needs strict management and supervision to prevent abuse. Every decision to restrict another humans freedom, particularly that of a child, should weigh very heavily on a judge.
However speak to most social workers and they’ll tell you that they would like to see way more kids spend a spell in the care of DJJ because the alternative is usually to wait until they do something to go to adult prison at 18, at which point you’re just funneling them into the University of Crime.