The Australian government is set to introduce new minimum sentencing for dangerous pedophiles who commit sexual crimes against children.
Lawmakers in Australia will allow judges to jail child rapists for life in a landmark bill set to pass parliament on Thursday.
Child sex predators who commit sickening crimes against children have often been handed short sentences, with some released into the community without supervision, attorney general Christian Porter said.
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Dailymail.co.uk reports: Child abusers would receive a mandatory minimum sentence under the new bill, which also limits bail for repeat offenders.
Under current rules, a third of federally-convicted child sex offenders spent no time in prison in 2019 – and those who did go to jail averaged just 18 months behind bars.
Most child sex offences are dealt with by states, with this new law only applying to federal cases.
The proposed new laws are aimed at dealing with online or overseas predators, with new offences being set up to target the owners of websites known to host child sex abuse content.
‘Sexual crimes against children destroy lives,’ Mr Porter said on Thursday.
”It simply beggars belief that nearly a third of all child sex offenders who were sentenced last year were not required to spend a single day behind bars,’ the attorney general said.
‘Despite the devastating and life-long impacts that their crimes have on their young victims and their families.’
While Labor has expressed concerns about mandatory minimum sentencing, senators have indicated they won’t oppose the bill.
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese told parliament on Wednesday his party would help the government in ‘any way possible’ to end child abuse.
It follows comments made by home affairs minister Peter Dutton, after a police operation saved 14 children from abuse.
‘The Australian Federal Police working with AUSTRAC and others is detecting more and more people who are depraved, who are online and who deserve to be caught and will be punished,’ Mr Dutton told parliament.
It would also create offences for when someone subjects a child to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, or which causes a child to die.
The proposal will not apply to people under 18.
The radical overhaul will also bring in a new offence for grooming of third parties with the intention of procuring children for sexual abuse – to target instances of offenders approaching parents and carers.
The minimum prison terms will be five to seven years for the most serious child sex offences.
Reoffenders will also face minimum sentences from one to four years for all Commonwealth child sex offences.
The Australian Federal Police received almost 18,000 reports of child exploitation involving Australian children or Australian child sex offenders in 2018, which was almost double the number from the previous year.
‘Sentences need to reflect community expectations and act as a significant deterrent to others, which is why these sorts of despicable crimes must result in significant penalties, not simply a slap on the wrist which is often the case,’ Mr Dutton said last year.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Australia usually celebrates pedofilia. what has happened?
Nothing at all!! Its targeted only for the bottom feeders.Those in positions of influence and power like Catholic Bishop Geroge Pell are let off the hook after period of Masonic/Jesuit establishment virtual signalling to justice! Geroge is serial pedo offender as well their where dozens of victims!Strangely very little out cry from politicians after his conviction being dubiously quashed!
If America would do that half of Hollywood and hald.of the Progressive Politicians would be in Jail. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f659fbd7b8d43736e30a5ac3638ca18bef0557fdcafbdd2a1862e27265352870.jpg 8
See police whistle blower tells all on you tube with James English .Englands really the Mother land of America, and Australia. Notice how English changes the subject whenever Welger starts talking about the upper class established institutionalised pedophilia and always wants to bring it back to well known names and the middle or lower classes. Watch him Look and learn .
Everyone who knows how jail works knows pedophiles basically get violently abused or even brutally murdered inside Pedophilua is similar to rape in that theres widely different degrees You can be convicted if pedophilia because you looked at a child or under 18 yo in a way that made them feel ” uncomfortable ” by todays,laws ,but the facts of the matter arent reported in the papers so the prisoners only know someones a convicted pedophile .The law is a monster really .And they will nw er prosecute the VIP rings that operate inter nationally NeverAnd they’re the worst of them all
I was just watching Anna Brees interviewed by James English ,Anything Goes ( and he would know ) where she ,as a former BBC journalist ,revealed the names of the cops who were all ordered to not investigate and actually to cover up vip pedophilia in England She tells the source of the actual investigation and identities all of the facts ,that is the name of the reports and the web site where it’s all documented ,probably all deleted by Google now ,but has all the evidence that was also I think used for a BBC doco that then wasnt allowed to be aired. Something like that. I’m sure its globally the same. Everywhere at the highest levels they ,all the pedophiles, are protected and only the lower classes are punished for the same behaviours or much less.
Except if they are ranking Catholic Bishops like George Pell it would appear! I can see these Epstein ring convictions against Prince Andrew going no where either seems little better than virtue signalling at this point by law enforcement and prosection lawyers. I can imagine in several months charges agianst will be dropped as well!
Jailing them and forceing themt to be teachers at elementary schools for no pay.