Posted on 11/05/2007 2:29:05 PM PST by BlackVeil
Eight Victorian teenage boys who took part in the filming of a sexual assault on a 17-year-old girl have avoided youth detention.
The girl was filmed performing oral sex on two boys, had her hair set alight, was spat at and urinated on during the incident at a park at Werribee, in Melbourne's outer-west, in June last year.
At a Children's Court on Monday, a judge told the boys they treated the victim in a cruel and callous manner and described their behaviour as cowardly and brutal.
"It was a sustained attack by a pack of young men upon a vulnerable young woman," he said.
He ordered all the boys - aged between 15 and 17 at the time of offending - to participate in a rehabilitation program for male adolescents about positive sexuality.
All except one of the boys had convictions recorded against them. The judge placed six of the boys on youth supervision orders for between 12 and 18 months and two of the boys were placed on probation for 12 months.
He said that if it was not for their guilty pleas and willingness to participate in rehabilitation they would have been at "significant risk" of serving time in youth detention.
Each of the boys had previously pleaded guilty to procuring sexual penetration by intimidation, making child pornography and assault.
The judge said he also took into account they had no prior convictions and their youth.
A DVD of the attack - which was titled 'C**t the Movie' - was distributed throughout the community, the court heard.
The 16-year-old who filmed the DVD and the two youths - both 17 - who were involved in the sexual assault each received 18-month youth supervision orders and had convictions recorded against them.
A 16-year-old boy was the only youth to avoid a conviction and was placed on a 12-month probation order after the judge found he did not directly engage in the sexual or physical assaults and had good insight into his offending.
The judge said the victim had organised to meet two of the boys at a Werribee train station on the day of the attack and had no idea a group of at least 11 boys was meeting her there.
He said the girl sustained significant emotional and psychological trauma from the incident and this was compounded by the filming and distribution of the DVD.
The judge said placing the boys in a rehabilitation program was not the "easy option".
He said the program would involve the boys and their families engaging in individually tailored treatment over about nine months.
The program was very successful in protecting the community, changing sexual offenders' attitudes and behaviour and ensuring they did not reoffend, he said.
The maximum penalty for the offences is three years in youth detention.
No parties involved in a Children's Court hearing can be identified.
I wonder if the girl has a father.
If I were the girl’s father I would be facing some jail time right now.
Maybe someone should make a tape of that idiot judge!!!!
Set him up for trauma, set his hair on fire, and any other cruel treatment the animals can think up.
That is disgusting.
Muslims?
No.
What is the religion of these animals?
There is no mention of her family, and she is mildly intellectually impaired, so is at a great disadvantage.
The boys in question did get roughed up by some members of the community, and bags of urine were hung on their front fence (which seems fair enough, since according to the DVD they like that sort of thing.) But this only made the Court more sympathetic to them.
I could do that ... and I would go for "counselling" afterwards. It would not be fair to send me to prison. Counselling is the key.
Lord of the Flies. Truly ugly, and I think they deserved more than a “diversion” program, if only for the exemplary effect.
Regarding the father, that was my first thought as well. Along the lines of “must be another girl with a father who could not care less about her”, or no father around at all.
Australia is rather a secular society, and I think that they are without religion, or are nominal Christians. Ethnically, they are native sons.
Let’s see, they have a video of me doing this vile stuff and witnesses. So I can plead guilty and spend 6-9 months pretending I am sorry for getting a BJ from this Ho, or I can go to Juvi for 3 years. Gee, tough choice. I got more sever punishment from my dad when I brought home my one and only F in the 4th grade.
Well isn’t this charming..........
Thanks for the reply. My experiences in Australia took me to the more rural areas of WA where there was still a predominantly Christian leaning population, and decency prevailed.
I asked because this sounds like acts committed previously in the East of Australia by those of the islamic faith.
She is mentally retarded. The Dad was devastated.
He said his family felt harassed by the media and hurt by incorrect reports that the girl was intellectually disabled rather than suffering from a developmental delay.
Good God! Is that what worried him?
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