{"id":30698,"date":"2016-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/violent-assaults-are-we-putting-offenders-before-victims\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:00:00","slug":"violent-assaults-are-we-putting-offenders-before-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/violent-assaults-are-we-putting-offenders-before-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent assaults &#8212; are we putting offenders before victims?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Court reporter Sean Fewster says the personal circumstances of violent offenders are often put before their victims.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI see a lot of assault cases where the circumstances of the offender are prioritised,\u201d Sean tells FIVEAA breakfast \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have a bad upbringing, they have difficulty, they have emotional problems, they have psychological issues \u2026\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/280816371&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not meaning for a second to downplay any of those things,\u201d Sean said, \u201cand the importance that they have in sentencing \u2026 but when you\u2019re sentencing a tenth time offender, surely those sorts of thoughts have to take less and less priority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This week Sean reported on two stepbrothers who have <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/the-violent-thugs-who-dodged-jail-nine-times\">nine assault convictions between them<\/a> &#8212; and have never been to jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver my 14 years in the courts, I can\u2019t think of many assault cases that have been handled in the way that ordinary members of the community would expect them to be handled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/port-adelaide-star-hamish-hartlett-on-the-table\"><strong>POWER STAR \u201cON THE TABLE\u201d DURING TRADE PERIOD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/the-violent-thugs-who-dodged-jail-nine-times\"><strong>VIOLENT THUGS DODGE JAIL NINE TIMES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court reporter Sean Fewster says the personal circumstances of violent offenders are often put before their victims. \u201cI see a lot of assault cases where the circumstances of the offender are prioritised,\u201d Sean tells FIVEAA breakfast \u2026 \u201cThey have a bad upbringing, they have difficulty, they have emotional problems, they have psychological issues \u2026\u201d&nbsp; LISTEN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v20.2.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Violent assaults - are we putting offenders before victims? 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