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Alliyah 'married' their teacher at 13. No-one else knew (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Again, probably because she is a woman. Also, “probability to reoffend” is a bullshit reason to give less time. She harmed this kid for 10 years and only pays 5 for it? Messed up…

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There are 4 factors that a judge needs to consider.[1^] Punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, denunciation[2^], and protection of the community.

Probability to reoffend is relevant to rehabilitation and deterrence. So no, it's not a bullshit reason.

[1^]: I Victoria. I assume Queensland has a very similar list. [2^]: I don't know exactly what this is, only that the judge in Erin Patterson's case mentioned it as one of his factors.

Edit ah fuck. I can't figure out this syntax. Whatever, it's clear enough what I meant.

edit again: ah. It turns out I had the syntax right the first time, before I tried editing. But I was doing it on my phone, and Jerboa doesn't display it like lemmy-ui does.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Testing

There are 4 factors that a judge needs to consider.[^1] Punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, denunciation[^2], and protection of the community.

Probability to reoffend is relevant to rehabilitation and deterrence. So no, it's not a bullshit reason.

[^1]: I Victoria. I assume Queensland has a very similar list. [^2]: I don't know exactly what this is, only that the judge in Erin Patterson's case mentioned it as one of his factors.