Friday, January 30, 2009

Mother raped in front of son after a Carols by Candlelight Service

Sometimes you read news that shocks you. This is one of them.

As to why Australians don't want to vote for a politician who is tough on crime, I don't really know. Some say they are just soft-hearted and want to believe its society's fault/ both sides are to blame/ takes2toTango sort of bullshit. I blame it on the marijuana smoking. :)

The rapist ought to be flayed for a few days - before he gets fed to sharks. Its a win-win-win.


Rapist Mark James Dennis jailed for 18 years for attacks
January 30, 2009 03:47pm

A SYDNEY man who raped a woman in front of her four-year-old son before igniting the gunpowder he had poured into her eyes, has been sentenced to at least 18 years in prison.

Mark James Dennis will serve up to 24 years in prison, after being found guilty of 13 sex and robbery charges, including rape and indecent assault.

The 38-year-old, of Tregear, in Sydney's west, admitted abducting and sexually assaulting a woman and a schoolgirl at knifepoint in separate attacks in Sydney's southwest in 2003 and 2005.

In one attack, a 26-year old woman was raped in front of her four-year-old son on their way home from a Carols by Candlelight service at Liverpool.

Dennis then put gunpowder on her eyes and ignited it, so she could not see him walking away.


Dennis bound her with rope from his bag before molesting and raping her. He also threatened the sobbing boy with a knife.

Dennis threatened to take the woman to a "gang bang" with his friends who "aren't as nice as me", and to kill her and her son if she went to police.



It was an act Judge Penelope Hock, sitting in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court, described as "gratuitous cruelty or a form of torture".

"This offence is so abhorrent that a substantial sentence must be imposed," she said.

Dennis will become eligible for parole on November 2, 2023, taking into account time already served.


Judge Hock said Dennis was a long-term drug user and had no previous sex offences on his record.

"(These offences mark) a serious and disturbing escalation in his criminality...," she said.

5 comments:

Andrew Hall said...

probably the Mafia thretened the judges 50-100 years back, the judges became soft and organized crime is probably going to go after any judges who are believed to be hard core on crime. I dare say organized crime could take care of anyone who is too hardcore in the political arena. Remember John Newman in Sydney (One of the few ALP blokes that got it right)?

Yauming YMC said...

I thought in a democracy - power lay with the people. The people vote for the govt - the govt creates laws and kicks the asses of criminals.

Andrew Hall said...

Or that is the illusion anyway. Truth be told if we really did what the voters wanted we wouldn't have speed cameras revenue raising, we'd have less pokies, a train system that works, less welfare for those not interested in working yadda yadda yadda... and the list goes on.

Yauming YMC said...

A democracy is only as good as the voters.

Andrew Hall said...

Then God help us!