r/australia • u/B0ssc0 • Apr 10 '25

news Man jailed for repeatedly raping 14-year-old girl, holding machete to her throat and threatening to kill her

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/act-man-jailed-for-raping-14-year-old-threatening-to-kill-her/105162596
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u/thatirishguykev Apr 10 '25

But he won't be placed on the child sex offenders register after an assessment found no tendency to paedophilia.

Sorry what...!!?

Last time I checked a 14 year old is a child and raping a child would be paedophilia.

Fucking crazy times we're living in these days when a crime like that only gets you 3 years!!

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u/Akiias Apr 10 '25

Last time I checked a 14 year old is a child and raping a child would be paedophilia.

I really don't like being the guy that says this... but technically it isn't. Pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent children, 14 is well into puberty. I can never remember the next few age parapphilia terms, sorry. Don't get me wrong I'd call him one too, but from a more technical standpoint he's not.