Showing posts with label assault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assault. Show all posts

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Crime scene

All entrances to Albert Park sealed off this morning ...


... and lurking beyond the trees we could see men in white boiler suits crawling about on the ground. Probably not the local bowls club.

And here's why, it turns out: reports of a serious sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl around midnight last night; 16-year-old boy in custody.

I don't hold with twaddle about contributory negligence, or the she-was-asking-for-it defence, or no-really-means-yes. If an assault was committed, string the brute up by whatever body parts might have been involved. But I can also think of an absolutely foolproof method that guarantees no 14-year-old girl will ever be assaulted in Albert Park at midnight. See if you can guess what it is.