"You spent three days in the Sydney police centre at Surry Hills. That's not jail,'' he said.
"I'm giving you another chance to go back out there but if you do it again that's it. Nope. Payday. Have you got any idea what it's like in there? Any idea at all? You wouldn't last a night.
"You will find big, ugly, hairy, strong men who've got faces only a mother could love that will pay a lot of attention to you - and your anatomy. Scary, isn't it? But that's what will happen.'
If the magistrate genuinely believes that kids are being raped in prisons, then he has an obligation not to send them there (no matter what Peter Faris might say).
The state has a duty to everyone under its care - no matter why - to do everything reasonable and possible to prevent their being raped or otherwise attacked whilst in a facility they run. (Which you'd think wouldn't be all that difficult in a damn prison.) We do not have state-run punitive buggery facilities, in which teenagers who drive whilst disqualified are sentenced to rigorous anal assaults at the hands of psychopaths whilst the state looks the other way. (Even if you think the kid deserves it, do you think it's a good idea for the sicko paedophile rapist to have some victims to practice on whilst he's in prison?) Oddly enough, buggery is not part of the justice system, and any magistrate who thinks that's what's happening in jail has a moral obligation to ensure that he's not sending anyone to that kind of a prison.
Funny though it might be to scare the pants off some arrogant little shit.
UPDATE (9/1): And the Hun and the Daily Telegraph gloat over kids being raped in prisons:
UPDATE (9/1): "Angry of Ringwood" writes to the Hun:
A NSW magistrate has declared from the bench that a 19-year-old "wouldn't last a night" in prison without being raped, and you publish a cartoon (9/1) implicitly supporting his thesis - but where's the condemnation? Where's the chorus of voices demanding reform? It can't conceivably be that your view is that it is okay for authorities to turn a blind eye to rapists being given free rein to abuse the most vulnerable prisoners under their care, can it? You can't want to be rewarding the most revolting criminals by giving them new victims (even if they are morally reprehensible young hoons) to practice on while serving their time, can you? Rape is not part of our justice system, and never should be. And yet I haven't seen an editorial word from you expressing concern at the magistrate's words or investigating his allegations. Why?
What a crankypants.
UPDATE 26/6: An American muses on the same subject.
