{"id":195318,"date":"2025-04-04T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=195318"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:16:26","slug":"violence-against-woman-appears-acceptable-in-victorian-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=195318","title":{"rendered":"Violence against woman appears acceptable in Victorian Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Violent African woman Alajeck Anai has won an appeal against her six-month jail sentence for savagely bashing an autistic 14-year-old girl at Altona Pier, Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Pardeep Tiwana gave her 15 months of community corrections and overturned her conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Judge Pardeep Tiwana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do we know about this Judge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018My appointment should inspire migrants,&#8217; says first Indian-Australian judge of Victoria County Court.  An incredible disclosure by this Judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in England, Pardeep Tiwana migrated to Australia in 2006. After practising law in Victoria for nearly a decade, he has now risen to become a judge of the state\u2019s County (Criminal) Court, the first person of Indian descent to be appointed to this high position.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-04_124032664-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195329\" style=\"width:688px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-04_124032664-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-04_124032664-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-04_124032664-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image_2025-04-04_124032664.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Judge Pardeep Tiwana.\u00a0Source:\u00a0Supplied by Pardeep Tiwana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>An outrage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extraordinary decision letting a person convicted of a violent assault on a young woman off the hook.  Every woman who is fighting for violence to end against women should be outraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Victoria the victim has less rights than the person who commits the crime.  Only recently a judge handed a substandard sentence to a man who brutally killed two women in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extraordinary decision letting a person convicted of a violent assault on a young woman off the hook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":195319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35,921],"tags":[16212,993,8],"class_list":["post-195318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-judge-pardeep-tiwana","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195330,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195318\/revisions\/195330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}