Teen who groped Surfers Paradise swimmers avoids jail
Tourists on the beach at Surfers Paradise.
Eight women were assaulted in the water at Surfers Paradise last year. (ABC News: Tom Forbes)
A teenager who groped eight women as they swam at one of Queensland's busiest beaches has been placed on two years' probation by a Gold Coast judge.
The Afghan-born 17-year-old, who cannot be identified because he committed the offences as a juvenile, spent two hours grabbing women, aged between 15 and 24 years, as he swam between the flags at Surfers Paradise Beach on January 16 last year.
The offending stopped when three of the victims approached the lifeguard on duty and he then notified police.
The teenager was initially charged as an adult because he had no birth records from Afghanistan.
He was sentenced today as a juvenile in the District Court at Southport after pleading guilty to nine charges of sexual assault and three charges of common assault.
Two of the victims, who were aged 15 years at the time of the offending, were present in court.
Victims approached in 'predatory manner'
Judge David Kent heard the Victoria-based defendant grabbed his victims on their bottoms, breasts and, in three cases, their vaginas.
Crown prosecutor Nick McGhee said the defendant was seen swimming up to his victims "in quite a predatory manner".
When questioned by the lifeguard on duty, the defendant allegedly said: "If I just say sorry, can we forget all about it?"
During sentencing, Judge Kent accepted the teenager grew up in difficult circumstances in Afghanistan and his father died in 2011.
He went on to say his behaviour, while holidaying on the Gold Coast with his family, was unacceptable.
"You indulged in behaviour which was essentially groping," he said.
"Essentially touching private parts."
The judge placed the Victorian teenager on two years' probation and no conviction was recorded.
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Send him to live with some of the imbecilic lefties and feminists who wanted him here, who have teenage daughters in the house, put them all under the same roof so they can learn a bit about each other.
Snake, I love the way you blame everything on the left. The current LIBERAL RIGHT government announced an increase of refugees to 18,750, the highest intake in Australian history. Simply put this is not a left or right view of politics it’s a commitment that all 1st world countries make to the UN.
The refugee intake is a fraction of immigration and is only linked in the poorly functioning brains of easily led morons prone to enjoying racist grunting more than thinking. Ironically the problem of refugees is also a direct function of global economic policy, another right wing idiot collective.
This policy will not change under Bill Shorten and is in conflict in the Liberal party between moderates and conservatives
The reason that both major parties are currently in line with high immigration numbers is that it helps raise GDP allowing them to brag that the economy is growing
You're joking if you think anyone in the Liberal Party will question growing the population a lot lot more.
Tony Abbott did once to appease his racist moron fan base and the business council along with NewsLtd tore him a new one and he apologised within hours.
The only party that ever seriously questions unfettered population growth is The Greens.
Pauline Hanson and other morons go on about it but the morons are just pleasing other morons that conflate 20000 refugees with 400000 invited migrants.
Maybe they should have these on the beaches now, Lol
Living on Lesbos, I can tell you that previous to the Syrian Crisis, our island was a paradise for women and girls who could wander the streets without fear of being robbed or sexually harrased, groped and assaulted. Any time of night or morning hours was safe for them. Ever since the crisis, our island has been flooded with middle-eastern but also north african scum who have commited numerous offences. Barely half are reported because of the shame many of the girls and women feel in our small town(Mytilene) of 25.000 for a stigma it may cause.
My wife is an english lesson tutor has to park her car about a half a kilometre where she works kicking off at 3pm by the time she finishes at 9 it's dark and I have to escort her with my bike to her car because the parking area is full of these 15-16 year old foreign youths and men who just linger at a kids play area close by.
Yeah, some women assaulted have stepped forward. They are formally charged and then released and end up commiting the same offences. The defence goes telling the same bs (they don't know any better, it's how it works in their country, they thought women were leading them on with their mini dresses etc).
We have a simular situation with these beardy, leftist, soft cocks defending them.
These people have no values, no respect and no fear of consequences and they shouldn't have anything to do with Europe.
With the war with ISIS on going on a daily basis you had boats coming in from Turkey constantly. I happend to be driving on the coast when they would arrive and the supposed "refugees" where usually 80% men and 20% women and children. In war situations that ratio is supposed to be opposite. In this situation is seems that the men are the ones fleeing and the women and children doing the fighting.
Politically we are run by a leftist government, but the truth is that even if the central-right government came into power they would do feck all since they have no once spoken about the escalating situation of importing middle-eastern and north african scum.
Only Golden Dawn (who are a extreme right and neo-nazi loving party) have spoken against this influx and have actually taken some action against them (Raid and assault) which has caught on admirers which will increase its votes for the next election.
This below is one of the worst stories that have happened with the influx of illegal scum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Paros_beating_and_rape
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