Sensible Sentencing Trust outraged by sentence given to
infant abuser
The Sensible Sentencing Trust has today
expressed outrage and called on the Crown to immediately
appeal against the disgusting and unjust “sentence” of
home detention handed down to a father for repeatedly and
deliberately causing grievous bodily harm to his
four-month-old daughter.
SST spokesman Garth McVicar today
said “We have become used to the judiciary handing down
ridiculous sentences, but this one takes the cake in recent
memory.
“For a crime that carries a maximum term of
imprisonment of seven years, the sentence of a year’s home
detention for such serious, repeated violence against a
helpless infant by the person who should have been her
protector, beggars belief. Even the defendant’s own lawyer
argued for a starting point of two year’s imprisonment,
while the Crown called for four years.
“We call on the
Crown to immediately appeal against this sentence in the
interests of not only this infant, but of all infants and
children who are put at greater risk by such outrageous
sentencing.”
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