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 on crime - society/ both sides are to blame sort of bullshit. I blame it on the marijuana smoking. :)
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.
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.
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