political correctness gone mad

[ninwa]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26248944-421,00.html

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The court heard the man, who can't be named because it would identify a child victim of a violent crime, struck the girl with a metal vacuum cleaner pipe, a hard plastic pipe and a mop handle.

He also threatened to kill the girl by tying her to a boulder and throwing her into the Hinze dam.

Facts before the court also stated the man beat the girl with a metal vacuum cleaner pipe and a mop handle on occasions when she failed to do her homework properly.

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Judge David Searles described the offences as "horrendous" but because of the unique circumstances of the case, including cultural differences, he sentenced the man to a wholly suspended nine months' jail.

It's things like this that make me ashamed to be associated with law >_>


Compare:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/australians-want-to-see-children-smacked/story-e6frf7l6-1225786859914

The discipline debate raged today after a nine-year-old girl told her classmates in Year 3 at Yea Primary School her mum had hit her with a wooden spoon.

Mother Claire Davidson was then reported to police by a school support worker.

"I was told it was assault with a weapon to hit her with a wooden spoon on the bum," Ms Davidson said.

[Gloamglozer]

Hmmm...  Perhaps this could be used as evidence in an EL essay if the occasion arises?