Has This Cultural Different Sexual Offender Got Off Extremely Light?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Judge Cottle said if he sent the defendant, of St Pauls, Bristol, to prison, the sentence would be short and he would come out an untreated sex offender. ///

/// The Thames Valley Sex Offenders Treatment Programme was a demanding course, he said, and would be part of a three-year community order with
supervision. ///

What was wrong in sending him to prison and then after serving his sentence sending him on this sex offenders treatment programme?

Or even better sending him on the next plane back from whence he came.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3479646/Migrant-s-child-sex-attack-blamed-cultural-differences-Somalian-claimed-misunderstood-boundaries-given-community-order.html

[naomi24]

Gromit, //You know next to nothing about him. He has a job and therefore will pay tax. He is worth exactly the same as everyone else in that position. //

I know that he's a sex offender - which makes him less worthy than any law abiding tax payer.

[Gromit]

Naomi,
We do jot know what he was charged with. The article does not say he has to sign the sex offender register.
I have not heard anyone on here to call for Rolf Harris to be deported and his crimes were far far worse.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// I have not heard anyone on here to call for Rolf Harris to be deported and his crimes were far far worse. ///

Hey, that is not a bad idea, perhaps it is because most thought of him as British.

But if we could have deported him back to Australia along with his Didgeridoo, it would have saved the British taxpayer a few quid.

[andy-hughes]

Gromit - //I have not heard anyone on here to call for Rolf Harris to be deported and his crimes were far far worse. //

I would imagine that after all this time, Mr Harris has dual citizenship, which would make the notion of deportation problematic.

Highly desirable ... but problematic.

[naomi24]

Gromit, whether he is on the register or not is irrelevant. He has molested women and he is therefore not as worthy as law abiding tax payers, as you claim him to be. Incidentally, I wouldn’t object if Rolf Harris was booted out - and all the other foreign creeps and criminals to their lands of origin too. Good riddance to the lot of them.

[sp1814]

AOG

Who on earth thought of Rolf Harris as British???

He had a full on Aussie accent.

He drew kanagroos as a motif for decades.

He sang 'Tie Me Kanagroo Down Sport'.

Seriously...who would have thought him British???

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

You once criticised a fellow ABer for saying "If a dog is born in a stable, it doesn't make it a horse"

[sp1814]

AOG

Nope. Totally different.

Rolf Harris was:

a) Born in Australia
b) Australian
c) Had an Australian accent

He was not British.

Unlike the people who are not white but are born in the UK, have a British accent, but still cannot be deemed by certain sections of society.

Do you see the difference?

[sp1814]

AOG

Just to double check...you know that Rolf Harris wasn't born in the UK right?

Let me know if you need to know where he gained his Aussie accent.