I can find nowhere in this article to link the "administrative error" that keeps this Scroat out of gaol with the judge's remarks: "...that he had no doubts that if she was a man, she would have gone to jail for her sexual offending."
Posted on 06/01/2007 2:59:55 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
An administrative error and a commitment to finish community work has saved the first woman in New Zealand convicted of having sex with an underage boy from going to jail.
Briar Dravitski, 24, made a brief appearance in the New Plymouth District Court yesterday.
She was due to appear for her fourth breach of community work after having her review of sentence dismissed earlier this week.
Judge Allan Roberts had indicated he would impose a 15-month jail term as a replacement sentence for the community work. That offer was declined by Dravitski's defence counsel, Pamela Jensen.
Having already breached three times, as well as being on a final warning, Dravitski faced jail yesterday.
The probation service withdrew the fourth breach, however, citing an administrative error.
That leaves Dravitski with close to 350 hours' community work to complete. She has finished 90 hours of a sentence that was handed down after she had sex with a 13-year-old boy. She was also convicted for assault and wilful damage.
The case attracted national headlines last year after she was the first woman convicted under new laws that meant men and women were treated equally as sex offenders.
Judge Roberts told Dravitski that he had no doubts that if she was a man, she would have gone to jail for her sexual offending.
I can find nowhere in this article to link the "administrative error" that keeps this Scroat out of gaol with the judge's remarks: "...that he had no doubts that if she was a man, she would have gone to jail for her sexual offending."
Get a rope.
I don’t think the rope will support the weight.
Can a 13 year old?
Guilty!
Guilty!!!!
I dunno, I like a woman with a little meat on her bones. Give her a few weeks in fashion boot camp and I think she could be rehabilitated.
VERY Guilty.
Doesn’t she sing for Wilson-Phillips?
This woman deserves two life sentences at a minimum.
Absolutely, Positively, Beyond The Shadow of A Reasonable Doubt....
...GUITLY!
Not in the most drunken and/or stoned state possible would a human
male go for that.
Without a gun to his head.
She better not go sailing in Japanese waters.
LOL
That’s a whole lotta woman.
If she lost about half her weight I might consider a suspended sentence.
I’d actually like to see pictures of all the FReepers shouting ‘guilty!’
GUILTY!
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