Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Australia

You just don't get headlines like this from the amoral U.S. media.

Ex-Brighton Grammar teacher admits child pornography shame
Defence lawyer John Dickinson said Hewitt's former high standing in the community had made his downfall all the greater.

"One doubts he will ever regain that reputation," Mr Dickinson said.

Brighton Grammar chaplain Brian Porter gave evidence that Hewitt had lost just about everything.

The Victorian Institute of Teaching said Hewitt was no longer registered as a teacher.
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TT - If it had been reported here in the U.S., a shameless defense lawyer would claim the pictures were no worse than watching a video game, no one would ever use the "R" word because reputation is something our Peter Pan Press knows little about. A psychologist would actively campaign against sentencing him to anything but expensive sex therapy, provided, of course, by another expensive psychologist, if not the same psychologist. And, despite the guilty plea, it would take two to three years and $200,000 to strip him of a teaching license.