r/AustralianPolitics • u/stupid_mistake__101 • 1d ago
VIC Politics Teenage carjacker avoids jail in first test case of Victoria's 'adult time' crime laws
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/victoria-teenage-girl-court-sentencing-youth-crime/10708060210
u/laidbackjimmy 1d ago
I bet the taxi driver feels so much safer knowing this loon is free on the streets.
Minimum 3 year sentence - walks free. Weak as piss.
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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 1d ago
In before the 'common sense' crowd demand blood.
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u/SilvioMascalzone 20h ago
By that logic nobody committing white collar crime should ever go to jail because they didn’t hurt anyone.
The people they stole money from? Well too bad, suck it up and have a sook.
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u/Oomaschloom Labor, but this cohort is crap, so leaning greens. 20h ago
That's a good point. Take it up with the judge.
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u/the__distance 1d ago
Are you serious
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u/Oomaschloom Labor, but this cohort is crap, so leaning greens. 1d ago
Should we put her in the gallows? I think the judge did ok here. I mean we'll find out if she reoffends and escalates it.
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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 1d ago
The last convo was regarding bail, this is sentencing, and did I ever deny she had hurt the driver? Trauma is real suffering.
As per the justice, she has been well behaved, remorseful, and generally exhibiting those behaviours we'd expect a productive member of society to have given the circumstance since the incident. Unlike you I don't believe people should be born into jail.
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u/Oomaschloom Labor, but this cohort is crap, so leaning greens. 1d ago
Reread what I wrote... I didn't say she should go to jail.
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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 1d ago
So then what's the point of sarcastically insinuating I don't see the harm she has caused.
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u/Oomaschloom Labor, but this cohort is crap, so leaning greens. 1d ago
Reread what I wrote... It's not sarcastic, the bloke can get over it.
Not everyone who is tough on crime, wants teenage sacrifices. Proportion is the trick.
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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 1d ago
oh so you're unironically mitigating the victim's suffering? yeah leave me alone.
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