Myer Chadstone sex assault on girl

[Proud Pies]

As deplorable and disgusting as this is, my question is: Why were the parents shopping on another level to where their children were in the toy department?

If the parents had been looking after THEIR children, perhaps this wouldn't have happened?


http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21389901-2862,00.html

[~Madness~]

Wonders never cease. What the hell is wrong with the people that do this in the first place???

[joffa corfe]

Suprise suprise in our never ending piss weak society run by gutless moronic minority groups and do gooders and those who believe we all have rights...yeah believe it or not the good ole fitzroy legal service and other groups continue to fly the same old boring belief we all have rights no matter how terrible the crime is.
So another child sex attack happens its just another sad news story buried away in the pages of other attrocious crimes.
Time to bite the bullet with arseholes who attack kids..give em the bullet prove the bastards guilty in a court of law drag em out the back and dispense with them...no loss no tragedy no tears give em what they deserve...we can all only hope this arsehole feels some kind of remorse and actually hangs himself before capture or the parants of the girl involved deals with the gutless bastard first....it would be no loss..another no lifer no hoper clogging up our justice system

[zoia]

piss weak

[Pa Marmo]

Spot on Joff, its time to execute these people who I believe have forfeited there right to live amongst us. Child molesters, rapists and murderers as well as repeat sex offenders repeat violent offenders.

Some will say it does not in fact drop the crime rate but it does stop the ones you execute from re offending.

[member34258]

I am not defending the scumbag involved in this incident at all, but I must agree with PP and ask the question. "Where were the parents?"
It appears they used the toy department as a defacto babysitter, and therefore the staff of the store as unpaid childminders.
Time people took charge of their responsibilities.

[sherrife]

Hold on guys, what happens when the inevitable wrong conviction takes place, and we kill an innocent?

Even if you do believe in the death penalty, are you happy to be the one killing these people? Because clearly someone has to be the executioner here.

What are you doing to yourself if you respond to violence with violence? Get a grip, the guy has serious issues, has committed a serious crime, and something serious needs to be done, but killing him achieves very little, apart from further brutalising our already f***ed up society.

[Dale61]

I know, when they get locked up, just put them in the general population and let everyone know what they did. Then, it won't be a problem when the rest of the crims get a hold of him and hand out their own form of punishment.

Who knows, the crims may even get time off for performing a community service.

[David]

The trouble is, what Joffa is suggesting is that we should forgo rationality and choose blind emotion. I've got an issue with that.

It's fair enough to suggest that the death penalty should be applied to such situations - I do not have a strong opinion on capital punishment, but I would be willing to have a referendum on it.

But, the fact is, at the moment, such crimes do not carry a death penalty. Should they? That's something to debate.

Obviously the crime is appalling - I am not disputing that. However, Joffa, I am one of those boring people that thinks people should have rights no matter how terrible the crime is. But, then again, aren't you as well? What are your views on David Hicks?

[eddiesmith]

Kids should be safe inside a department store, I reckon alot of parents would have let their kids check out the toy department whilst they look at other things and Parents should not have to worry that some sicko will do something to their kids during that time

[nomadjack]

Round and round and round we go...Still yet to see anyone calling for the death penalty to be imposed in any of these discussions deal with the issue of innocent people being convicted and executed for crimes they did not commit. No one is disputing that the crimes are vile or that the perpetrators deserve the strongest possible punishment, but are you prepared to have an innocent family member of yours convicted and executed for a crime they did not commit?

I'm not philosophically against the state using violence as a form of punishment (unlike you Sheriffe, although I respect your perspective), or as a form of defence, and would be perfectly willing to administer a lethal injection, for example, as part of my duties as a citizen. From a practical perspective though, I cannot accept that a death sentence can ever be justified purely because of the experiences of other countries where mistakes are routinely made.

In any civilised society we all have rights, and whether people like it or not society can only function if those rights are recognised, whether they be the right to a fair trial, the right to be presumed innocent, the right to legal representation, the right to work or any other fundamental rights.

Groups like the Fitzroy Legal Service do more for the downtrodden and destitute than you or I will do in our lifetimes Joffa. It's their job to challenge the system - and ensure that the state does their job properly and that convictions are earned. Otherwise innocent people get convicted. And if you don't like the way the place is run, run for parliament yourself. You've already got a profile which is way more than most independents have. I'd love for people to actually get inside government and see how bloody hard it is to make good policy and good decisions that are acceptable to everyone. It's too bloody easy to throw crap from the cheap seats.

[nomadjack]

As a parent of a nine year old girl Eddie, there is no way I would let here out of sight for more than 5 seconds in a department store. You just can't afford to with these sorts of sick bastards around. You also need to make sure they are aware of the dangers, although it is hard to do this without making them paranoid about everyone around them. Stores or public places like libraries or games centres are not baby-sitting centres, yet is is amazing how many parents leave their kids unsupervised in these kinds of venues.

[Proud Pies]

[eddiesmith]

[Collingpie]