It was bad enough when a Nebraska judge refused to imprison a 50 year old man who raped a child – “because he was too short to survive in prison”. Looks like Australia has their own version of Judge Kristine Cecava – his name is Acting Chief Judge Tony Skoien. Judge Skoien has decided it’s okay for a father to rape his pre-teen daughter repeatedly, in the name of sex education.

Sex abuse father pleads guilty but avoids jail

The man, 36, had pleaded guilty to six charges of indecent dealing with a girl aged under 16 and four more charges of rape by digital penetration. The offences, between April 2004 and June last year when the girl was aged between 11 and 13, came to light when the girl told school authorities.

The court was told the man, from a small north Queensland town, had committed the offences as part of his daughter’s sexual education.

The father was immediately removed from the family home and not allowed contact with his daughter.

Defence barrister Greg Lynham said the daughter desperately wanted her father back in the family fold. Now 14, she had told authorities that not being able to speak with her father, with whom she had a close emotional connection, had been extremely painful.

“All I want is for us to be counselled together so we can be a family again,” she said.

Psychological reports tendered to the court found the defendant had an “interesting and unusual” personality but was not a pedophile.

Judge Skoien said the man had made a “grotesque” error while explaining sexual behaviour to the girl. But to imprison him when he was not likely to repeat the offence would only further punish his daughter. He sentenced him to 12 months’ jail to be served under an intensive correctional order. He will not go to jail but receive counselling and have limitations on his movements.

Apparently raping your daughter is only an insult.

He hoped the “insult” the man had inflicted on the daughter would heal. “And I hope you can pick up your lives together.”

In other words, the girl has fallen victim to Stockholm Syndrome, and the underage victim has become the rapist’s defender. And the judge is too stupid to see it.