cods wrote on Mar 20
th, 2017 at 12:48pm:
Raven wrote on Mar 20
th, 2017 at 11:41am:
Setanta wrote on Mar 20
th, 2017 at 1:36am:
Raven wrote on Mar 20
th, 2017 at 1:30am:
Poor sentencing has always been a problem.
A 9 year old Aboriginal boy was killed while riding his bike in a hit and run. The driver had a history of meth use and his sister told police he "appeared high" on the day in question.
He received an 18 month suspended sentence and 6 months home detention.
Was it on purpose Raven? People make mistakes but there are mistakes and mistakes. People that would purposely go looking for abos to scare and drive at, run over are at the level of people who would torture animals for enjoyment. I'd feel so very failed as a parent to have them as my kids and would wish their whole sentence carried out. Something like that is not out of the blue.
Yes people make mistakes. He killed a 9 year old boy, fled the scene and tried to hide the damage to his car. For this he got an 18 month suspended sentence.
Melbourne July 30 2016 a man kills a woman with his car and flees the scene, sentenced to 11 years.
Darwin December 31 2015 hit and run, 5 years.
Adelaide December 2013 another driver under the influence of drugs kills a cyclist in a hit and run, 5 years.
Victoria November 26 2013 another cyclist killed in hit and run, driver sentenced to 11 years.
These people received more jail time then the men who brutally murdered an Aboriginal man and terrorised a group of aboriginal people minding their own business.
the rules have to be changed....was it a Police car that hit the boy??...from memory this is what made the difference.... yes very sad mate but nothing will change and bring him back....
have you any cases where a black man has killed more or less the same as a white but his sentencing has been larger????????...
Cods it wasn't a police car that killed the boy, it was a man with a history of meth abuse. His sister told police that her brother looked high before he got in the car but because he fled the scene this was unable to be ascertained.
In Australia, there has recently been a proliferation of studies in the area of Indigenous sentencing disparities. However, there have only been three prior investigations of Aboriginality and sentencing in Australia’s lower courts.
This is a good report investigating disparity between Indigenous and non-indigenous offendersThere does appear to be however apathy on behalf of non-indigenous people towards indigenous victims of crime.
There was a case in 2007 where an 8 year old Aboriginal boy went missing from a small town called Borroloola in the NT. Two days after his disappearance his shirtless body was found in a muddy creek less than a kilometre from where he lived.
Police rapidly concluded he wondered off alone, slipped and hit his head and accidentally drowned. How they came to this conclusion remains unclear.
They ignored evidence of footprints showing a child and adult walking in the direction of the creek.
They failed to show the family a shirt found near the creek.
But most importantly they ignored evidence of rocks in his pockets to weigh him down and a large rock that was on his chest to keep him under the water.
Not only that they also threw out potentially crucial evidence gathered when the body was discovered without forensically testing it.
For three years police failed to investigate a possible killer in the town of 800 people.
Even after the Coroner reopened the the investigation and savaged the police in his final report there was no community outrage at gross negligence of the investigators.
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