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Human rights going down the pan? : Comments
By Judy Cannon, published 20/11/2014Refugee advocates have spoken of their alarm at the new legislative reforms currently proposed under a migration amendment bill, calling them 'diabolical' and 'destructive'.
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The court also heard that Hakeem Hakeem bashed a 63-year-old woman in her home the day after raping the teenager.
Hakeem went on a sex-crime spree just a month after arriving in Australia and then told a church worker he thought he was an evil person for what he had done, the Victorian Supreme Court in Melbourne court was told.
Hakeem, 21, formerly of Dandenong, arrived in Australia with his family on February 9 last year.
On March 10, Hakeem and another man raped a 16-year-old girl at a scout hall in Dandenong, south-east of Melbourne.
The following day, Hakeem raped and bashed a 63-year-old woman in her Dandenong home, leaving her with fractured eye sockets, a fractured nose and wounds to her back and arm.
Prosecutor Michele Williams said Hakeem choked the elderly woman and slashed her throat twice.
"She thought she was going to die," Ms Williams said.
"After he had slashed her throat with the knife she begged to be taken to hospital and gave the prisoner $100."
In Dandenong the next day, Hakeem raped a 16-year-old girl four times and forced the victim's 16-year-old friend to rape her three times.
He threatened both teenagers with a razor blade and scissors, and cut their hair so he could take a sample with him.
Last month, a jury found Hakeem guilty of one count of each of rape and false imprisonment in relation to the March 10 attack.
Hakeem was sentenced to 24 years incarceration with a 17 year non parole period.
Total cost to Australia? Two raped girls, one elderly woman bashed in her own home, his wife and kids on the dole till God knows when, maximum security costs of $80,000 dollars per annum per prisoner for the next 17-24 years. We got a real bargain with Hakeem, didn't we? But Susieonline and Jay Cannon care more about people like Hakeem than the safety and welfare of their own people.;