You don’t have to watch professional finger wagger Bill O’Reilly to run across the trend of child molesters being treated with kid gloves. Stitches77 from Absolute Zero United just posted a piece that shows this trend is international is scope. In that post we meet a judge/folk musician/dedicated “civil libertarian” by the name of Ian Dearden who is at the center of a travesty of justice so profound I fully expect Bill O’Reilly’s head to explode when he hears about it:
A Queensland father who bashed a man caught molesting his 10-year-old son is facing a prison sentence, while the boy’s attacker walks free.
Shane Thomas Davidson was at the child’s house at Eagleby in June last year to watch the State of Origin match with the boy’s father and a few other people. After the game, Davidson went into the boy’s bedroom and began massaging the child’s penis under his clothes. When the boy woke up, Davidson asked the boy to show him his penis and offered to do the same. The child refused and went to tell his father what happened. The man then attacked Davidson, dragging him outside, throwing him on to a concrete path where he struck his head and repeatedly kicking him. Davidson later underwent extensive facial surgery in the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Shane Thomas Davidson was spared jail despite pleading guilty to molesting the boy on State Of Origin night last year. Judge Ian Dearden told Beenleigh District Court the sentence was reduced because the young victim’s father had wrongly taken action into his own hands and badly beaten Davidson.
In handing down his sentence on Monday, Justice Dearden said adult offenders who committed sex offences against children must serve actual jail time – unless exceptional circumstances were found to exist.
“This is one of those rare and exceptional cases,” he said. “When an individual takes the matter of punishment into their own hands, the offence committed by the person may be far, far more serious and, therefore, have far more serious consequences then the original offence.”
Say what? Beating the crap out of a man who molested your son is worse than molesting a child? Understand that the judge here is saying if you caught a man molesting your child the beating you gave that person would be worse than the rape of the child. In fact, Ian Dearden agreed with the pedophile who thought what he did wasn’t something you should go to jail for.
Dearden also believes coercing a teen into sex through force isn’t rape, as he was the author of another outrageous ruling:
A Former north Queensland high school teacher has been jailed after a court overturned his suspended sentence for molesting a female student.
Steven Peter Quick, 29, of Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast, originally avoided jail when Brisbane District Court Judge Ian Dearden sentenced him to a wholly suspended 18-month jail term and 12-month intensive correction order.
Justice de Jersey found that Judge Dearden didn’t take enough notice of the damage done to the victim, that he incorrectly regarded as relevant that she gave “some level of consentâ€, and that he did not give enough weight to Quick’s threats to harm the girl.
The chief justice also found that Quick’s remorse was only self-pitying and he lacked true insight into the damage he had done.
So a person threatens a teenage girl into being violated and Dearden thinks that’s a kind of consent?
This attitude is not new, in fact it’s very European and thus trendy among hard leftists. England is full of cases where rape and child exploitation are dealt wth lightly, if at all. One judge there claimed an 11-year-old girl raped by an adult was “asking for it” since she was dressed provocatively according to him. That same judge refused to deport an illegal alien who raped a 12-year-old because he thought the rapist wasn’t dangerous.
The Ivy towers of Cambridge University host a degenerate named Dr. Nicholas Hammond who was caught with child pornography that included babies as young as two days old being raped. America’s own N.P.R. just ruffled some feathers with this obsequious piece about over rated Somali poet Elmi Bodheri who became famous for penning a series of sexually graphic love poems to a nine-year-old. Bodheri was in his 30s. N.P.R.’s Gwen Thompson glosses over that fact in the story as if it was inconsequential.
The tie that binds all these stories together is nihilism. The children being abused in these cases simply don’t matter to the judges and journalists who have adopted the Albert Camus like pretensions that nothing really matters in the scheme of things. When morality becomes individually subjective in a society then people are free to impose injustice on others. All adults have a responsibility to protect children and teens. We all share the responsibility to allow children to remain innocent, to keep them from having to see the world as an unfair and corrupt place where they are never truly safe from depravity. Only the most nihilistic of cultures abdicates that responsibility, and sides with those who prey on innocents.
It is a sign of our decadence reaching the peak at which it comes crashing down on our civilization to produce men who think raping a child is “pretty minor” and certainly it is a sign that our civilization is collapsing to have the authorities of so many countries agreeing.
I don’t agree with O’Reilly on certain issues such as him promoting “global warming”. I however would agree with him on going after sexual predators and apathetic judges whom let them loose in the streets.
“It is a sign of our decadence reaching the peak at which it comes crashing down on our civilization to produce men who think raping a child is “pretty minor†and certainly it is a sign that our civilization is collapsing to have the authorities of so many countries agreeing.”
Very well said! And thank you Rob for writing about this. Men like Dearden have no place in the criminal justice system. He has not done the job he was appointed to do. How can we ever expect to get the babyraping freaks under control when we have wrist-slapping pedophile apologist enablers turning them loose on our children? I’m beginning to think of judges like this as child predators themselves.
Let us not forget Joseph Duncan.
Rob Taylor,
Ian Dearden, does not belong on the bench! Any form of non consensual sex is rape, period. Pedophilia is rape, because children are not yet mature enough to consent.
This guy needs to loose his job. Plus how can someone give some level of consent, but not all of their consent? That doesn’t make sense.
There is a good aussie blog I follow, Crusader Rabbit, and they are spitting blood over this one in the comments section. http://crusader-rabbit.blogspot.com/2009/06/priorities.html
I’m so confused when I run into things like this. Not about the crimes themselves, or their insanely light punishments — I know about that and send money to groups that fight child abuse and rape. But the idea that there’s some kind of cohesive leftist movement that applauds these shamefully lenient sentences…that totally baffles me.
All the leftists I personally know and work with are completely horrified by this stuff. Feminist and women’s groups continue to some of the strongest lobbies *for* stronger penalties for child molestation and rape. The very same outrage that’s rightfully present in your post is echoed all over the internet by people whose politics differ from yours.
This is clearly a pretty highly politicized blog, so I may be stepping into bee’s nest, but I see so much commonality between your intelligent, outraged analysis and those I see on women’s blogs from the other end of the political spectrum, and it breaks my heart to see the two groups blaming each other instead of focusing on changes to the law and joint demands for tougher enforcement. These crimes are real, and so are these miscarriages of justice. More and more, though, I think the political divisions we’re all tempted to overlay on top of them are mostly illusory, and based on misreadings and the output of a tiny group of extremists who purport to represent both sides.
Feminists have lobbied against stronger sentences for sex offenders many times. Feminists refused to lobby for Jessica’s Law for example, and took no stance against the increasingly cohesive “Sex Offender Rights” movement except in some cases to endorse the idea that registries were too strict.
But modern Feminism may be full of Leftists, but you’re equating Leftism (Socialism/Communism/Fascism) with Feminism which would include Republicans (like Susan B. Anthony) Conservatives (like Tammy Bruce) and people that defy categorization like Camille Paglia. Your “othering” of non-leftist women as not being “feminists’ or capable of being part of a real “woman’s group” is yet another leftist dogma that undermines civilization and causes needless conflict when there are bigger battles to fight.
“I see so much commonality between your intelligent, outraged analysis and those I see on women’s blogs from the other end of the political spectrum, and it breaks my heart to see the two groups blaming each other instead of focusing on changes to the law and joint demands for tougher enforcement.”
Well, since those groups are full of leftists who claim I’m a “race traitor” for being Bi-racial and not slavishly following the edicts of a White run Democrat party, and for believing in small but muscular government, Capitalism and strong national defense, I don’t see the commonality. Since the Feminist groups on “the other side” have come out for treating children like adults, covering up the targeting of my fellow Black Americans by Latino gangs and have literally called me racist names in posts and emails I’ll disagree with the idea that our differences are illusionary.
The racism and hatred by lefties that I have gotten for not allowing them to think for me is not a minor difference. Claiming “Hatefucking” isn’t normalizing rape fetishism (and take the Playboy article out of it, “Feminists” are claiming “Hatefucking” is acceptable terminology and behavior) and that I’m the world’s only Bi-racial Nazi for caring about a genocide in inner cities of Blacks by MS-13 and other Mexican Mafia affiliated gangs is not a minor difference.
But most importantly, believing that Pedophilia is not an orientation as I do is not a minor difference. Leftist groups claim Pedophiles “can’t help themselves” but by their logic our prisons are full of rape-o-sexuals who are victims of their orientation. Pedophiles can be hetero or homo-sexual. Their commonality is sadism and the belief that they are entitled to sexual gratification from anyone they have control over.
But I guess that makes me part of a tiny group of extremists. Or as your fellow lefties often say, a N#$%er.
well this might be a shock but the judges side with the pedos becase…they are pedos too. i know its hard to accept but hey if priests are and teachers are then why not judges. hey i have seen plenty of cops get locked up for messing with kids or rape.
wtf??? THATS FRICKING ITIOTICK!!! WHAT THE @#$! IS GOING ON THESE DAYS??? HOLY *&%#@!$!!!!! GOOD LORD!!!!!