TWO years after they gang-raped a 10-year-old girl – and eight months after a judge decided their crime was not worth a jail sentence, noting the child “probably agreed to have sex with all of you” – five of the victim’s nine attackers were finally behind bars last night.
Three males convicted over the May 2006 rape of the girl in the remote Cape York Aboriginal community of Aurukun arrived in Cairns yesterday to start their custodial sentences.
The males – adults Austin Koowarta and Raymond Woolla and a 15-year-old juvenile who cannot be named – handed themselves in on Monday and were yesterday flown from the community in far north Queensland in a single-engine aircraft, accompanied by two police officers, to begin their sentence.
They arrived in Cairns just after 11am, dressed in civilian clothes but wearing handcuffs, and were immediately loaded into a waiting police van and transferred to a Queensland correctional facility.
Two other men among the nine adult and juvenile males who raped the girl – including 19-year-old Michael Wikmunea – are already in custody over unrelated matters. Four others escaped custodial sentences.
What is there to say but about bloody time !
Let us make no mistake, without the sustained outrage from members of the public (and the bloggosphere )about the manifestly inadequate sentences handed down for this crime these chaps would have remained unpunished. The reason that they nearly escaped punishment was quite simply the worst kind of patronising racism that is integral to leftist notions of “cultural sensitivity” and “political correctness” that infects the leftist mindset like a cancer.
The only sad thing about this whole affair is that Sarah Bradley is still on the bench…
I suppose that is a fight for another day.
Cheers comrades
Filed under: Australian Politics, Ethical questions, Indigenous Issues, Justice, Law, Leftism, Men and Women, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Queensland, Racism, the Law | Tagged: Aururkun rape case, Sarah Bradley
