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Registered child sex offenders in Australia will be stuck in a giant penal colony (known as Australia) under a proposed law:
Australia's estimated 20,000 registered child sex offenders would lose their passports under a new law that government officials say is aimed at preventing convicted pedophiles from victimizing children overseas. Officials call the proposal a "world first" in the fight against child sex tourism.
"This new legislation represents the toughest crackdown on child sex tourism by any government, anywhere," Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said, adding that Australia is "determined to prevent the sexual exploitation of vulnerable young children overseas."
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Australia Could Deny Passports to Registered Child Sex Offenders
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 02 2017, @01:42AM (1 child)
Except that confessing your sins and getting absolution is your get-out-of-hell card.
There's no equivalent in US (or apparently Australian) justice. Serve your sentence, remain guilty.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 02 2017, @08:36PM
And that's justice how? The guy who rapes a hooker and runs her over with his car and confesses goes to heaven while the poor working girl spends eternity in torment?
This entire thing is beyond abhorrent. If any of the hellfire and brimstone fetishists had any imagination or common humanity at all, trying to contemplate what it is they say they believe would give them a fatal case of insomnia and panic disorder leading to stroke or heart attack.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...