Australia: mother busted for sexting 14-year-old boys, gets community service

Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2013-08-13 12:07

Link here. Excerpt:

'The mother of three pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday to six charges of using electronic communications to expose a child under 16 to indecent material.

The woman from Brisbane's south can't be named to protect her victims' identities.
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Ms Yousufzai said under the law an adult who commits an offence of a sexual nature against a child under 16 must serve a term of imprisonment unless in exceptional circumstances.

She said the Crown wasn't seeking a prison sentence but a conviction should be recorded.

"This offending is just as serious as if the defendant was a male doing this to 13-year-old girls," she said.

Defence barrister Stephen Zillman tendered a psychiatrist's report which stated the woman had been psychotic at the time of the offences.

She had been suffering from a breakdown from significant stresses in her marriage and home life and been looking to boost her self image, he said.

Magistrate Elizabeth Hall said it was "a most unusual situation" and she was persuaded that the woman had been suffering a psychiatric condition.'

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That's what it amounts to. Does anyone imagine for a second the following would ever be written abt a man in a similar position?:

"He had been suffering from a breakdown from significant stresses in his marriage and home life and been looking to boost his self image, he said."

and from there, been given a major break? Can't imagine.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-08-13 16:25

You do not "boost your self image" by preying on children.

If these crimnal acts were the result of psychosis, the the woman - by definition - was criminally insane at the time. You don't just put criminally insane sexual predators on a couple of days community service.

Unless that criminally insane sexual predator is a woman.

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Submitted by MrWombat on Thu, 2013-08-15 10:10