Victoria’s courts and left-wing Labor government are under fire over revelations magistrates are being trained how to sentence immigrant criminals so they won’t be deported.
A “professional development day” for magistrates court judicial officers held last week was described by attendees as “disturbing”, and used a hypothetical example of a Vietnamese student who had repeatedly sexually assaulted an eight-year-old, the Herald Sun reported.
The magistrates were advised to give the paedophile a sentence of 11 months and 15 days to avoid triggering federal deportation laws which require the cancellation of visas of non-citizen criminals who have been sentenced to a year or more in prison.
