Nine child rapists go free in Australia

Here’s your horrifying lede of the day, from The Guardian: “A judge in Australia was facing calls to step down today after she failed to jail a group of nine males who admitted gang-raping a 10-year-old girl in an Aboriginal community, saying the young victim ‘probably agreed’ to have sex with them.” I…what the…sigh.
Australia has been struggling over the problem of sexual assault of in indigenous communities; a recent report showed that sexual abuse against Aboriginal children is happening at staggering levels.
In the case of this young girl, who was raped by three adults and six juveniles, communities across Australia were horrified by Queensland District Court judge Sarah Bradley’s leniency and disgusting comments.

“If this was a white girl in white suburban Brisbane’ there’s no way the defendants would have walked out of court,” said child protection campaigner Hetty Johnston.
Aboriginal academic Professor Boni Robertson called for the judge to step down while there was an inquiry. “It’s undermined everything we have worked for over the last 10 years to get our women justice in this country,” she said.

Apparently several of the attackers were from “prominent” families. Charming. I’m looking for sites where folks can take action, but if any one finds something before me–feel free to post in comments.

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