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.
the kind you have to roll around in flour and look for the wet spot.
> Kiwi women are hot.
True. I married one. Yesterday was our sixteenth wedding anniversary.
> So, I have to ask...
> HOW did this woman into the country?
Scientists are still working on that one. The current theory is that, abandoned by her pod for groping male calves, and chased mercilessly by the harpoon-wielding Japanese thru the waters of the southern South Pacific, she beached ashore near the port of New Plymouth...
> This whale not in gaol should stay mainly on the scale.
HEE-hee-hee! Priceless! (giggle!)
I swear I had to read that twice because I thought it said.............."beached three times"
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.
However, this case falls under the "reasonable woman" standard of being "treated equally," so this sexist patriarchal blathering about guilt or innocence can be dismissed out of hand. The important question is, "When will society learn that she, as a woman, is the real victim?" Clearly, the poor dear just needs a taxpayer-sponsored personal makeover.
Ack!
Guilty,Guilty,Guilty,Guilty,...............
Guilty...and keep her away from the beach.
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