AusGeoff wrote on Nov 10
th, 2023 at 6:34am:
Well, this is yet another example of the multiple
and continuing failures of Australia's state and
federal jurisprudence systems during the past
couple of decades.
Why not simply transfer him to a normal jail in
Melbourne or Sydney or wherever? Problem
solved surely?
If the government does release him into the general
population, then his name, image, and other primary
identifiers must be made public for the safety of that
public. (Imagine you've got a couple of little kids, but
not knowing this bloke is living right next to your home.)
As a child rapist, he's repudiated the norms of an
Australian society—any society—and as such cannot
expect to be especially protected by that same society.
He came illegally on a boat 2012, raped tge boy in 2015, was sentenced to two and a half years. .
He served his sentence already. On release from prison he was taken into immigration detention because his asylum claim was rejected on character grounds (ie for being a convicted child rapist)
No other country would resettle him for the same reason.
He is a stateless Bangladeshi /Burmese Muslim.
There are another 127 such convicted stateless criminals in immigration detention.
No protection is owed to these illegal boat arrivals because of their criminality, no other country would take them for that reason - so they will no be released because indefinite detention is unlawful.