The Queensland Court of Appeal has now allowed the Attorney-General’s appeal in the historical child sexual abuse case that many people were discussing after the original sentencing.
The offender had originally received a fully suspended sentence, meaning he would not serve any time in custody despite being convicted of multiple counts of indecent treatment of a child and one count of rape involving his younger sister.
The Court of Appeal (Justices Boddice, Doyle and Muir) found that the sentence was “manifestly inadequate.” In particular, they emphasised that under Queensland law, sexual offences against children normally require actual imprisonment unless truly exceptional circumstances exist.
The court held that the mitigating factors relied on at the original sentencing — things like delay between the offences and prosecution, family responsibilities, therapy after arrest, and lack of recent offending — were not unusual in historical abuse cases and did not justify avoiding custody.
The offender has now been resentenced to:
• 4 years imprisonment for rape
• 2 years imprisonment for multiple indecent treatment counts
• 18 months imprisonment for earlier indecent treatment counts
All sentences run concurrently, with the total sentence suspended after 12 months in custody and a 4-year operational period.
The Court also stated that correcting the sentence was important not only for the victim but for the administration of criminal justice and deterrence in cases involving sexual offences against children.
A warrant has been issued for the offender’s arrest, with 72 hours to surrender into custody.
Posted by catobsessedtwin
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Good.
Total sentence suspended after 12 months in custody? So he only got a year basically? Still way too low.
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still way too low, try like 12 times that and we might be talking.
What’s the bet they don’t turn themselves in and get a bigger punishment for that?
These predators don’t spend enough time in jail, they are well behaved in jail and get parole really easy because they are so protected. The predators have all the programs to engage with from counselors and Psychologists etc, while there is absolutely no help for victims IMO. Disgusting
So 12 months for SA of a minor. And life for rioting. Gotcha.
I dont agree with hatespeech at all but your telling me some blole saying hail hitler gets 3x longer in jail than a child rapist ? Society is fucked up
An AI summary of a news article?
A bullet or a rope would do it