Kate Hawkesby: Sentences like we saw the other day are why many sexual assault victims don't come forward

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 16, 2023 · 3m

Everything that's wrong with our justice system at the moment was summed up this week by the judge who gave those two sex offenders home detention.

They were described as two of this country's most notorious sexual predators, their offending so heinous one of the victim's called it depraved, one's had PTSD and flashbacks since, one had attempted suicide twice.

The judge apparently choked back tears as he said, ‘The harm to the victims can only be described as profound.’

The judge 'described graphic details of some of the offending, which at times involved the use of beer bottles and a…