Tax Evasion Worse Than Sexual Assault And Child Porn

Apparently.

Glenn Wheatley, who by all accounts is a reasonable chap who got caught with his hand in the till, copped thirty months (15 minimum) for tax evasion and other dreary stuff. He didn't steal from others, he just neglected to pay the applicable tax. He ended up paying up, co-operating, did a deal and then that deal was reneged upon by the prosecutors. Nice.

But, if you want to get away with raping a girl, degrading her, filming the whole thing and then distributing it on DVD, just plead guilty and you'll get an "adolescent sexual rehabilitation program." (Source)

No, really, go right ahead. We'll get you in a room with a middle-aged woman who'll harangue you instead of getting what you really deserve, which is a shower with Big Ken in Cell Block D. Aggravated sexual assault in company? Pah! It's off to a caring-sharing tea and biscuits night. Tax evasion? Big Ken for you!

This is hot on the heels of Pat Power, a former NSW deputy senior Crown prosecutor, gets a piffling seven months for possession of a staggering and sickening range of child pornography. (Source)

Prison a little bit twicky for poor schnookums? Oooooooohhhhhh....have a shorter jail sentence. That's the point of jail! To make life hard. Depressive illness or not, he still did it.

Eight months was already manifestly inappropriate, but less because of his chosen profession is a joke. I won't even bother getting into Matthew Newton's conviction being quashed. Hitting someone because you can't be arsed gettting help is a lame excuse.

What the buggery bollocks is going on here? Wheatley did the wrong thing, no question. He thought he'd get away with it because he's famous (but, in my opinion, is getting his just punishment for unleashing Delta Goodrem on us) but appears to be paying a rather high price, higher than the appropriate punishment doled out to Rene Rivkin.

The Age article suggests that there are seven (seven!) more youths to be tried over the Werribee DVD. What will they get? Poked with cushions? I think the lot of them should be filmed with Big Kev and have that smeared all over the internet while they scream for their mothers. I don't care if they were minors, common human decency does not allow for this type of behaviour.

The judiciary in this country have absolutely no regard for women who have been harmed in such a disgraceful manner. These people barely broach the line between human and animal let they are allowed the equivalent of a Cubs meeting instead of a good hard walloping in jail. They must think they've got away with it because they have. Perhaps the judges in these cases ought to spend some time with the victims of these crimes before being allowed to pass such ludicrous sentences.