Eldritch
05-14-2010, 12:52 PM
A MOTHER who pimped her 12-year-old daughter out to pay debts and buy drugs has been jailed for 10 years.
The crime was described by Justice Peter Evans as an appalling breach of trust.
Justice Evans said the 41-year-old mother who will be eligible to apply for parole after serving seven years, had an extremely harmful impact on her child's life and evidence suggests would lead to "psychiatric problems" later in life.
"The complainant has not personally provided a victim-impact statement," Mr Evans said.
"Her father says that she finds it too difficult to talk about how she is getting along.
"I have no doubt that what occurred has had a most deleterious impact on her and experience suggests that in the course of time she may suffer from psychiatric problems that can be related to the conduct in question."
The mother pleaded guilty to the charges of procuring unlawful sexual intercourse with a young person, a charge of being a commercial operator of a sexual services business, a charge of receiving a fee derived directly from sexual services provided by a child in a sexual services business and a charge of breach of bail.
Since her arrest for the breach of bail on February 22, she has been isolated in the Risdon Prison because of threats made towards her by fellow inmates.
She was transported back to Risdon yesterday morning to cheers of "enjoy seven years, ya dog" from her own family members and friends.
Her co-accused, Gary Devine who assisted in running the illegal prostitution ring, was jailed for 10 years last month.
He is not eligible for parole until he has served eight years.
Mr Evans said while Devine was the more "dominant personality" in the partnership, played a active role and had a list of prior offences, the mother too was fully involved in the crimes and on another level the act by her was "an appalling breach of trust and maternal obligations".
"The defendant derived a greater financial benefit than Mr Devine from their criminal conduct ... the defendant was initially less forthcoming than Mr Devine when interviewed by police ... the defendant encouraged the complainant to falsely tell the police that the defendant had no knowledge of what had gone on.
"On balance I can see no reason for imposing a different head sentence on the defendant than was imposed on Mr Devine, but I am satisfied that she should receive a shorter parole eligibility period than he did."
At the time the girl and her younger sister were under a Child Protection Services order.
Link. (http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/05/14/146071_scalesofjustice.html)
The crime was described by Justice Peter Evans as an appalling breach of trust.
Justice Evans said the 41-year-old mother who will be eligible to apply for parole after serving seven years, had an extremely harmful impact on her child's life and evidence suggests would lead to "psychiatric problems" later in life.
"The complainant has not personally provided a victim-impact statement," Mr Evans said.
"Her father says that she finds it too difficult to talk about how she is getting along.
"I have no doubt that what occurred has had a most deleterious impact on her and experience suggests that in the course of time she may suffer from psychiatric problems that can be related to the conduct in question."
The mother pleaded guilty to the charges of procuring unlawful sexual intercourse with a young person, a charge of being a commercial operator of a sexual services business, a charge of receiving a fee derived directly from sexual services provided by a child in a sexual services business and a charge of breach of bail.
Since her arrest for the breach of bail on February 22, she has been isolated in the Risdon Prison because of threats made towards her by fellow inmates.
She was transported back to Risdon yesterday morning to cheers of "enjoy seven years, ya dog" from her own family members and friends.
Her co-accused, Gary Devine who assisted in running the illegal prostitution ring, was jailed for 10 years last month.
He is not eligible for parole until he has served eight years.
Mr Evans said while Devine was the more "dominant personality" in the partnership, played a active role and had a list of prior offences, the mother too was fully involved in the crimes and on another level the act by her was "an appalling breach of trust and maternal obligations".
"The defendant derived a greater financial benefit than Mr Devine from their criminal conduct ... the defendant was initially less forthcoming than Mr Devine when interviewed by police ... the defendant encouraged the complainant to falsely tell the police that the defendant had no knowledge of what had gone on.
"On balance I can see no reason for imposing a different head sentence on the defendant than was imposed on Mr Devine, but I am satisfied that she should receive a shorter parole eligibility period than he did."
At the time the girl and her younger sister were under a Child Protection Services order.
Link. (http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/05/14/146071_scalesofjustice.html)