Things that make you go What the F**k?

[LeoMc]

Sick bastards. Its child abuse.

Aye, the Da should just bate the notion out of them and keep them locked up until they stop acting like a p00f.

[Deerstalker]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68770641

Cass report released yesterday, seems pretty sensible - any child should have a full assessment for unrelated "issues" l, numerous divergent, autism etc and a mental health assessment before proceeding with gender treatment. Instead of just prescribing puberty blockers as a matter of course

[Tony Baloney]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68770641

Cass report released yesterday, seems pretty sensible - any child should have a full assessment for unrelated "issues" l, numerous divergent, autism etc and a mental health assessment before proceeding with gender treatment. Instead of just prescribing puberty blockers as a matter of course

Better late than never.

[Armagh18]

News headline there- "new legislation means it will soon be illegal to assault shop staff in England and Wales, shop owners want the same here"

Didn't know it was legal at the minute....

[Look-Up!]

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-who-filmed-sexual-abuse-of-baby-to-be-sentenced-6352660-Apr2024/

There are no words

[balladmaker]

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-who-filmed-sexual-abuse-of-baby-to-be-sentenced-6352660-Apr2024/

There are no words

Despicable crime.  As for the 4 yr jail time sentence, WTF!  The courts really do not help the situation ... 133 previous convictions, then this ... 4 yrs!  The key should be thrown away on scumbags like this.

[tonto1888]

News headline there- "new legislation means it will soon be illegal to assault shop staff in England and Wales, shop owners want the same here"

Didn't know it was legal at the minute....

may get the assaults in asap

[tonto1888]

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-who-filmed-sexual-abuse-of-baby-to-be-sentenced-6352660-Apr2024/

There are no words

Despicable crime.  As for the 4 yr jail time sentence, WTF!  The courts really do not help the situation ... 133 previous convictions, then this ... 4 yrs!  The key should be thrown away on scumbags like this.

4 years!!! shocking. Ho long did Iain Watkins get?

[RedHand88]

Solksjaer 3/10 to become next Ireland manager....

[Look-Up!]

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-who-filmed-sexual-abuse-of-baby-to-be-sentenced-6352660-Apr2024/

There are no words

Despicable crime.  As for the 4 yr jail time sentence, WTF!  The courts really do not help the situation ... 133 previous convictions, then this ... 4 yrs!  The key should be thrown away on scumbags like this.

Would make you sick to the pit of your stomach but to add insult to injury they hand out a sentence like that. Blood boiling! Surely they'll have to appeal the leniency of the sentence. No way someone like that can be let stalk the streets in less than 4 years.

[David McKeown]

Courts don't have carte Blanche in sentencing decisions. They take their lead from parliament and statutory committees such as JSBNI in Northern Ireland or the sentencing guidelines counsel in England and Wales. Parliament can and does intervene when sentences are too low. But until it does Courts are highly curtailed by the will of parliament.

All that said when sentences that are seen as lenient are imposed then whilst Courts who really couldn't have done anything else, parliaments who could have set proper guidance get off Scot free. That annoys me.

[Look-Up!]

"Marshall was facing a maximum life sentence for the defilement charge, a maximum sentence of five years for the possession charge, and up to 14 years on each of the other three charges including, producing child pornography, distributing child pornography and using communication technology to facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child. "

"Marshall uploaded and shared 15 videos and two images on kik of sex acts involving children, including the infant boy, as well as images and videos of a number of underage girls that were shared with him by a third party whom Marshall did not identify."

The law needs to be tougher on crime in general but I see nothing here to give that judge a pass. If he saw fit to give that utter scum "credit" and thinks it's ok for him to prey on others in 4 years time, which he most certainly will do, then he is not fit to be a judge.

[Tony Baloney]

The judge seems like quite an operator.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/560459/limerick-man-who-started-fire-after-splashing-petrol-on-wife-and-children-warned-of-further-conduct.html?fbclid=IwAR1Xfwq-EDmAp68nStaOpEiV_sWulCP2Qxn6QDpBqsH-JaxKmaE-uVfECdQ

[David McKeown]

"Marshall was facing a maximum life sentence for the defilement charge, a maximum sentence of five years for the possession charge, and up to 14 years on each of the other three charges including, producing child pornography, distributing child pornography and using communication technology to facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child. "

"Marshall uploaded and shared 15 videos and two images on kik of sex acts involving children, including the infant boy, as well as images and videos of a number of underage girls that were shared with him by a third party whom Marshall did not identify."

The law needs to be tougher on crime in general but I see nothing here to give that judge a pass. If he saw fit to give that utter scum "credit" and thinks it's ok for him to prey on others in 4 years time, which he most certainly will do, then he is not fit to be a judge.

The judge didn't see fit to rather he is obligated by law as set by parliament too. There's good reason to afford credit in cases like this not because defendants deserve it or to condone their actions but because if credit wasn't given then defendants would have nothing to lose by running trials. Increasing costs to the taxpayer and much more significantly retraumitising victims.

Strangely there's been a couple of reports on the justice system in recent months talking about the necessity of credit but how terms like credit and discount for a plea shouldn't be used on the basis they don't accurately convey what's happened and the terms themselves undermine confidence.

I don't know what the guidelines are for these offences in the south and this judge may be quiet lenient but similar offending in the north would probably attract a similar sentence for a 'non dangerous' defendant. That's not though a reflection on the judiciary but rather on parliament.

[Look-Up!]

What utter nonsense. As if the judiciary give a crap about the tax payer when they're billing their time! And they're well fit to throw the book at people if they've gotten out of the wrong side of the bed for trivial crap.

This sc**bag raped a baby, filmed it, put it up on a sharing platform and would not co-operate with authorities in naming his buddies. The book should be thrown at him. If some p***k in government then wants to take issue with that and over rule the judge, I doubt they'd be too popular or get very far.
There are not too many crimes as stomach churning or vile as this one. Letting him walk in 4 years is a complete insult and more retraumatizing to the victims than anything that could have been said in court. And if we've lowered ourselves to the point of affording credit to the most depraved of paedos so as not to upset them, then the lunatics are truly running the asylum.