Children being used like lab-rats as more sex offenders released into unsuspecting communities

9th July 2016

Figures obtained by the Sensible Sentencing Trust show that the number of child sex offenders given community based sentences has increased significantly in recent years.

“Essentially children are being used like lab-rats and being exposed to a totally unacceptable risk by a corrupt ideology that has put the emphasis on rehabilitating these offenders and not public safety.” McVicar

Trust founder Garth McVicar said the figures proved what SST had suspected for some time.

“These figures prove conclusively that the Courts are deliberately and consciously using children in a disastrous experiment as they sentence more dangerous offenders to community based sentences.”

McVicar said, “Essentially children are being used like lab-rats and being exposed to a totally unacceptable risk by a corrupt ideology that has put the emphasis on rehabilitating these offenders and not public safety.”

“Figures show that in 2004 there were 73 child sex-offenders given community based sentences but in 2015 there were 173 of these despicable creatures granted permission to skulk in our communities, free to prey on vulnerable children via community sentences.”

“It seems the Courts, aided and abetted by Government policy, are now prepared to release more dangerous paedophiles into unsuspecting communities than ever before.”

“If anyone needs more evidence that there has been a deliberate conspiracy between the Government and the Courts in an attempt to reduce prison sentences, they need to look no further than the sentencing of Brendan Henson in Wellington High Court yesterday.”

“The Crown rightly applied for a preventive detention sentence but Judge Russell Collins refused and sentenced him to a finite sentence of 8 years.”

“A preventive detention sentence was the only way Judge Collins could have protected the community for the foreseeable future, but a finite sentence means Henson will be released in the minimum time possible.”

“The Sensible Sentencing Trust is appalled that innocent young children are deliberately and consciously being put at risk, and we call on the Government to immediately establish a publicly available child sex-offender register to give communities the opportunity to protect their children from known predators the Courts seem determined to release amongst us.” ENDS

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