Following Gojam’s recent posts on “Judge-mental”, I was struck by a link Martin posted. There has been much discussion lately about paedophile judges and paedophile-friendly judges. This is in response to widespread concern about paedophiles being freed or given ludicrous light sentences for offences most of us would consider to be heinous crimes. When we dare protest at this, we are dismissed as “online nutters”. We are told how important it is for judges to be “independent”. They are in possession of all the facts and we should leave sentencing to them! Really?! What about accountability to the public? But paedophile-friendly judges are nothing new. They have been doing this for decades. It is not just the British public who have been expressing concern at the lenient treatment of these evil people.
The link Martin provided was to an article in the Sidney Morning Herald, dated July 1st 1983…
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