TeamZephyr wrote:
While this isn't really world news this has really hit home for me because I know one of the people being beaten in the video and the girl in question.
Jesus fucking christ... give her my 'support'*
1. How are her and her family holding up?
As a detective said in the article:
...This is disturbing, very disturbing...
As a Sydneysider, I am not familiar with the demographic of western Melbourne. I haven't seen any pictures (of the offenders), so were these animals "Aussie" or of another ethnicity (I would guess Lebanese).
I am stunned that these people would commit this atrocity, film it
and then make it into a DVD. I am stunned, and can't think of anything else to say about that at the moment.
For the people who have argued about prison in this thread. They will be sent to prison for quite a while. They have been charged with many offenses. The DVD is there and will fuck them over. But going to prison will not change them. That can only happen if they are truly remorseful.
In Australia, the recidivism rate for prisoners is about 40%-50% (year 2002). That means that there is a good chance that these people will commit crimes again. It is through a combination of incarceration and rehabilitation that the problem will be fixed, and people like Zephyr's friend might not have to go through this horrible ordeal.
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1 - I put quote marks because it's over the internet... but you know what I mean.
Mcminty.