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Gang rape brothers jailed for 70 years

 
 
Wilso
 
Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 07:11 am
Gang rape brothers jailed for 70 years
April 22, 2004 - 5:28PM

Four brothers who gang raped two Sydney teenagers were today sentenced to a total of 70 years in jail between them.

But one of their victims said she was ``not overly satisfied'' with the sentences.

The brothers blamed a police conspiracy against Muslims for their convictions, and continued to maintain their innocence when their jail terms were read out.

Two of the brothers were sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court to 22 years each behind bars, and the other two to 16 and 10 years.

The four men, now aged between 17 and 25, were found guilty by a NSW Supreme Court jury late last year of nine counts each of aggravated sexual assault in company.

The rapes occurred at their family home in Ashfield on July 28, 2002.

Another man, known only as RS, also was convicted of nine counts of gang rape in relation to the incident but committed suicide in jail last week.

After the sentences were read out, the 19-year-old brother, known only as MRK, put his head in his hands and wept.

His brother, known as MAK, then stood up and proclaimed the four men's innocence.

``We did not do this crime,'' he said.

``This crime was committed against us. The police set us up because we are Muslim.''

But sentencing judge Justice Brian Sully said the cultural differences between the perpetrators and their victims should not be used as justification for the rapes.

``Neither the law, nor the culture of Australia, recognises multiculturalism ... as providing in any way or to anybody a convenient justification either for rape or for any other form of sexual abuse,'' he said.

Justice Sully sentenced 25-year-old MSK, who he described as the ringleader, and 17-year-old MMK to 22 years each behind bars.

He sentenced their 23-year-old brother MAK to 16 years, and MRK to 10 years.

MSK was given a non-parole period of 16 and a half years, MMK 13 years, and MAK 12 years.

However, MRK, who did not perform any of the rapes himself, could be out of jail in as little as five years.

Outside the court, one of the victims, known as LS, said she was ``not overly satisfied'' with the sentences but thanked the police and prosecutors for their work.

``Everybody with the police have done their best,'' she said.

One of the investigating detectives, Senior Constable Tony Adams, said no amount of jail time would ever compensate the victims for what he described as one the most violent rapes he had ever investigated.

``No sentence, no matter how harsh, will ever compensate the victim(s),'' he said.

AAP


Maybe they'll eventually learn that the west treats women differently than their culture does.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 07:25 am
Friggin' heck...that defence must be one of the biggest pieces of crap I've seen in a long time. I wonder if these pieces of shite thought about the fact that simply using that argument does a huge disservice to their supposed 'religion'.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 07:26 am
...and culture.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 07:39 am
Hmmm - pity the same is not true of defences against beating your kids - we had an overseas family tying their son to the clothesline and beating him with sticks - the local welfare tried to get out of acting because it was "culturally based".
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Wilso
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 08:18 am
dlowan wrote:
the local welfare tried to get out of acting because it was "culturally based".


That organisation is called DOCS in NSW. Department of Community Services. And they're about as incompetent as it sounds like the SA ones are. I wonder, is this a national, or even international phenomenon.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 08:29 am
Even though I have no idea about how social services or welfare groups work in Oz, I have to wonder if the non-comittal to get involved had more to do with "we are understaffed, underpaid, and quite frankly don't really give a ****." The "culturally based" argument is a disgusting smokescreen.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 08:31 am
Nah - I mean yes - but they believed it.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 08:52 am
Sad that, bunny, when people actually believe their own idiocy.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 29 Apr, 2004 03:03 pm
Me, I got angry.
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