‘Give him a permanent visa or he might rape more Australians’ is such an obviously idiotic argument that only a ‘refugee advocate’ or a tilty-headed bureaucrat (which is to say, much the same thing) would think of it. If you think I’m being hyperbolic, that is almost literally their argument. I kid you not.
A 50-year-old Sierra Leone immigrant, convicted multiple times of indecently assaulting teenage boys, including trying to rape a terrified 16-year-old, is being given a legal pathway to stay in Australia indefinitely – because a psychologist told the court that giving him a protection visa would make him less dangerous.
The Federal Court quashed the tribunal’s decision to refuse him a visa, ruling they failed to consider whether permanent residency would “reduce his risk of attacking more kids”.
This is the same man whose visa was cancelled after repeated child sex offences. The same man who cannot be deported because of a “protection finding”. The same man living freely in the community thanks to the High Court’s NZYQ farce.
When even the Administrative Review Tribunal, bureacratic head-tilters all, think an imported savage is too dangerous to be allowed to stay, that’s really saying something. But a foreign rapist can always rest assured they’ve got a judge or taxpayer-funded psychologist ready to step in and make sure they stay right where all the fresh meat is.
The court cited evidence from therapist Graeme Randall, who works in the treatment and assessment of men who have committed child sex offences. Mr Randall had filed a report noting that if MFKF was provided with a permanent visa, “this would provide a level of security that may reduce the risk of criminal or sexual offending, reducing the risk to the community” […]
Another consultant psychologist, Tim Watson-Munro, gave evidence that referred to MFKF’s “anxiety over being removed from Australia and the impact of separation from his partner and child”. He testified that MFKF’s risk of reoffending was low if he maintained treatment, remained drug and alcohol free, and maintained employment and other protective factors.
Was one of those “other” factors pigs growing wings and taking flight? Because that sounds much more likely than the rest.
But, hey if misters Randall and Watson-Munro are so confidence that this African kiddy-fiddler is so little threat, they should be made to prove it by putting him up in their no-doubt palatial homes. Sharing a bed in their grandkids’ bedrooms.
Or don’t they really believe their own bullshit?
The 50-year-old man from Sierra Leone, who can only be identified by the pseudonym MFKF, had arrived in Australia in 2011 on a partner visa.
In 2012, he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for indecent assault and assault with indecent intent against a 16-year-old boy. In 2016 he was jailed for 70 days on two more counts of indecent assault. In each case, the man was under the influence of drugs and alcohol […]
The man is the subject of a protection finding, meaning he cannot be removed to his home country, and he has submitted that he cannot be removed to a third country in Africa because he is homosexual.
Just ignore his inconvenient heterosexual marriage and children, who happen to live in Bangladesh: time for a family reunion?
In his oral evidence before the tribunal, Mr Randall said the “removal of stress would act as a significant protective factor” and that MFKF’s “risk of reoffending is at present low but could increase if the applicant was in the situation where he is fearful for his life or under extreme stress and if there are no supports are [sic] available”.
Well… cry me a river. Because this scumbag ought to fear for his life.
MFKF’s first offence occurred in 2012. According to tribunal records, MFKF approached a 16-year-old boy waiting for a bus, squeezed his buttock and tried to get him to go back to his hotel room. The harassment lasted for about three minutes before the boy boarded a bus. About 15 minutes later, he approached another 16-year-old boy who was described as a vulnerable youth living in a shelter, and asked him to come back to his room. The youth declined the offer, but MFKF punched him in the chin and grabbed him by the jumper.
According to tribunal records, the victim was scared and intimidated and accompanied MFKF to the hotel. Inside the room, he struck the “terrified” teen before removing the boy’s pants and attempting to rape him.
“The victim was crying … It is stated that the episode has had a profound and adverse impact on the victim,” the tribunal said.
In 2014, MFKF approached a victim at a shopping centre, asked him if he smoked crystal meth or drank beer, and invited him to a hotel. The victim accepted the invitation, put his bicycle in MFKF’s car and they exchanged phone numbers. He then drove to a park, produced an ice pipe and a small amount of methamphetamines, and repeatedly tried to kiss his victim and blow smoke into his mouth. He also placed his hand on the victim’s groin.
He also has hepatitis B and is bipolar.
I can think of one guaranteed way to make sure he never offends again. But I think the bureaucratic tilty-heads won’t like it.
