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AU - The sex offenders? challenge

View the CharterBlog article here 11/11/2008 My guess last post was right. (Of course, presumably the whole legal community knew this, but not me.) It?s on!: Two convicted sex offenders are invoking Victoria?s human rights charter to appeal against being given an extended supervision order in what is a legal first. One of the applicants is a child sex offender jailed for more than 10 years for his crimes. The man, whose name is suppressed, was convicted for sex crimes against his teenage daughter, another teenage girl and his adult partner. He was given a 10-year extended supervision order when he finished his jail term after a County Court judge found a ?high degree of probability? he was likely to further offend. However, his lawyer Graham Thomas SC told a Court of Appeal hearing today his client was not a high-risk child sex offender and therefore not eligible to to be subject to the order...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).