Online videos of child sexual abuse only exist because there is a market for them. If nobody watched them there would be no point making them and perhaps a few children might escape the horror of being tortured and raped.
The fact that this man got pleasure from watching these videos and contributed to the marketing of them should get him locked up. I don’t care about his toileting needs, public toilets don’t accommodate him either, but he manages. Even hospitals don’t have dwarf toilets, they use as stool to get up there.

Most of us seem to agree this verdict stinks
Maybe we need the power to do what the USA does, recall[ force] locals officials to be voted on
If we had such a power over the givers of justice we may see some in the job for just weeks before being turfed out

Diver Dan,
I think this bloke got off, not because he was a politicians son, but because of his physical disabilities. Have you ever heard of 'dwarf tossing'? I can see jail inmates engaging in that activity.

I must ask you if you think that aboriginal offenders should have no penalties as per my example and should refugees have sexual offences dismissed on cultural grounds as we have seen in the past.

Should aboriginals and refugees face the same penalties as others for the same offences. Should there be consideration of culture in sentencing

HenryL

you are asking provocative questions that will never be answered. There obviously are different standards in the courts. Much 'cultural' stuff results in blind eyes. Just ask Jacinta Price who cops the usual hateful vitriol from the left when she raises these issues.

Henry L.

Judges should be questioned on sentencing determinations. The dpp can appeal a sentencing outcome, if it's considered inappropriate. But unfortunately they appear to be a law unto themselves, which they should not be.

So if a judge makes a determination based on precedents, which is how the system works, and it is considered inappropriate by the judgment of the dpp on the same basis, then that judgement is the grounds for appeal by the dpp.

This is the point of law which needs to change.
In order to change the standard of judgment upwards, Governments have stepped in with an innovation called mandatory sentencing.

This act of parliament overules a judges discretion. And is actually conflicting, and waters down the independence of the judiciary.
It's this independence which is one of the corner stones of democracy.

So you will probably never get an answer to your question, and the key reason is "precedents". It's already set.

Dan

I read one of Issy's links, the guys a problem. We either lock him up, or let him go off and join the Catholic Church, they are short, excuse the pun, of a bishop or two, and he is fully qualified, wont have to spent time getting trained.

The majority of paedophiles have fathers, whether that father is a garbage collector, a politician, or whatever is irrelevant.