Australian teen pleads guilty to terror charge

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Australian teen pleads guilty to terror charge

MELBOURNE: -- An Australian teenager detained during raids in Melbourne in May has pleaded guilty to a terror-related charge.

The 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty to engaging in an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act between 25 April and 8 May this year.

He admitted the charge ahead of a committal hearing and prosecutors dropped two other charges.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35089386


-- BBC 2015-12-14

[OMGImInPattaya]

Another one of those "peaceful" Muslims.

[Aachen]

Another one of those "peaceful" Muslims.

An Australian teenager

[simple1]

Believe it's correct to say the guy in the OP is a first generation Muslim Australian.

Bet his defense lawyer had a very pragmatic conversation with the guy. Laws are being enacted in Oz that an individual, no matter their age at time of offence, can be kept indefinitely in prison, after the original sentence has been completed, if they are assessed as an ongoing threat to the public / national security.

Edited December 14, 2015 by simple1

[trogers]

Believe it's correct to say the guy in the OP is a first generation Muslim Australian.

Bet his defense lawyer had a very pragmatic conversation with the guy. Laws are being enacted in Oz that an individual, no matter their age at time of offence, can be kept indefinitely in prison, after the original sentence has been completed, if they are assessed as an ongoing threat to the public / national security.

With only 30+m people, the country cannot afford to lose much due to terrorism...

[ROGER DUNN]

They should not be kept ' forever' in jail at the tax payers expense They are after all a threat to the country

and I believe [ what ever their age ] should have the Death Penalty. It is Treason what they doing.

[ROGER DUNN]

What ever their age they should not go to jail, they should face the Death Penalty,

It is Treason, and they should not be allowed to Live !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rancid]

Australia as a good puppet was involved in an offensive war in Iraq, Afghanistan and is still bombing Syria. So now, just like other western countries we are getting blowback, who would have thought?

So yes, these characters have to be put away, however the long term solution is get our uninvited military out of Muslim countries and stop killing people that had done nothing to us and were never any threat to us whatsoever.

[condo bought]

[OMGImInPattaya]

Australia as a good puppet was involved in an offensive war in Iraq, Afghanistan and is still bombing Syria. So now, just like other western countries we are getting blowback, who would have thought?

So yes, these characters have to be put away, however the long term solution is get our uninvited military out of Muslim countries and stop killing people that had done nothing to us and were never any threat to us whatsoever.

I would agree...and it's also the height of stupidity, in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism, to allow/invite immigration from Muslim countries into what are basically post-religious secular Western societies.

[Acharn]

Another one of those "peaceful" Muslims.

The story doesn't say he's Muslim, though I suppose we cam infer it. The thing that caught my eye,

He admitted the charge ahead of a committal hearing and prosecutors dropped two other charges.

Looks like what prosecutors do in the U.S. Pile on charges so the suspect is facing decades in prison, get him to plead guilty to a lesser charge that he/she is not guilty of, and save the court the time of a trial. Also increases the proseceutor's "win" record. Nobody gets a fair trial any more. Come to think of it the Thai system of reducing the penalty by half if the defendant confesses has much the same result.

[simple1]

Another one of those "peaceful" Muslims.

The story doesn't say he's Muslim, though I suppose we cam infer it. The thing that caught my eye,

He admitted the charge ahead of a committal hearing and prosecutors dropped two other charges.

Looks like what prosecutors do in the U.S. Pile on charges so the suspect is facing decades in prison, get him to plead guilty to a lesser charge that he/she is not guilty of, and save the court the time of a trial. Also increases the proseceutor's "win" record. Nobody gets a fair trial any more. Come to think of it the Thai system of reducing the penalty by half if the defendant confesses has much the same result.

The guy pleaded guilty to the more serious charge of preparing for an act of terrorism.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-14/melbourne-teenager-pleads-guilty-to-preparing-act-of-terrorism/7025644