06-15-2023, 02:03 AM
You can argue that sexual assaulters and abusers should be locked up and the key thrown away.
You won't get a lot of argument.
But I've always found it just a bit disturbing that alleged offenders are often judged and convicted before it gets anywhere near a courtroom,by folks who have no first hand knowledge of the situation, and feel the offender must be guilty because they look a little creepy.
I don't know what happened in the Higgins case.
There are probably only two people who know for sure....and I'm not even certain they know.
But the number of high profile folks, including the PM of the time who were 'definite' in the guilt of the accused derailed any possibilty of a transparent, fair trial.
Morrison actually apologised to Higgins in Parliament before any trial.
She was partnered with Grace Tame as the face of abuse.
Either some of these folks had access to information that wasn't publicly available, or they acted irresponsibly in such a manner that compromised the trial, and meant that neither Higgins or Lehrmann recieved justice.
You won't get a lot of argument.
But I've always found it just a bit disturbing that alleged offenders are often judged and convicted before it gets anywhere near a courtroom,by folks who have no first hand knowledge of the situation, and feel the offender must be guilty because they look a little creepy.
I don't know what happened in the Higgins case.
There are probably only two people who know for sure....and I'm not even certain they know.
But the number of high profile folks, including the PM of the time who were 'definite' in the guilt of the accused derailed any possibilty of a transparent, fair trial.
Morrison actually apologised to Higgins in Parliament before any trial.
She was partnered with Grace Tame as the face of abuse.
Either some of these folks had access to information that wasn't publicly available, or they acted irresponsibly in such a manner that compromised the trial, and meant that neither Higgins or Lehrmann recieved justice.