Salah Sulaiman Almuhama, a 29-year-old Iraqi refugee, lured a 14-year-old girl from school in Toowoomba via Snapchat with a vape offer, drove her to a remote lookout, paid her $50, and committed indecent treatment after she disclosed her age as 15; the original rape charge was dropped in a plea deal.
The rape charge was dropped.
Instead of locking this pedophile up and throwing away the key, the woke judge Deborah Richards decided the REAL problem was the risk he might actually be deported if she issues a strict sentence.
So, she found so-called “exceptional circumstances” including his visa sob story and the “great hardship” he might face if deported back to Iraq, and handed him a fully suspended sentence.
She let him walk straight out of court a free man. No jail time. No proper punishment.
And thanks to Deborah, his visa wasn’t automatically cancelled, and now, deportation is almost impossible.
One Nation senator Tyron Whitten tore into the sentence in the Senate and demand he be deported.
My dear Female Judge, protecting the Rapist is much more important that protecting our country’s young women.
Deb Frecklington can still appeal it, and Tony Burke can cancel his visa. Neither has moved.
In Toowoomba District Court, Judge Deborah Richards imposed a fully suspended sentence, citing exceptional circumstances including deportation risk to Iraq.
The ‘risk of deportation’ should be specifically excluded as a sentencing consideration in every state and federal Sentencing Act. It is ridiculous that the judiciary should be allowed to expressly subvert the intent of the Immigration Act.
When our judiciary fail to exercise justice, Australians must hold our politicians to account. This Queensland judge has failed the victim and her family, failed the people of Toowoomba, and failed the criminal by permitting him to walk free.
Disgraceful.