This article is really interesting
http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/latest/16544960/man-allowed-son-to-have-sex-with-prostitute/
A man has been charged with child sex offences after allegedly allowing his 13-year-old son to visit a prostitute during a family holiday.According to News Limited, the 45-year-old was charged last month and faced Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday charged with two sex offences which carry a maximum 20 year sentence.
One charge alleges he caused a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual intercourse outside Australia, while the other that he procured a child to engage in sexual activity outside his place of residence. Police say the offences took place in September last year at a Thai resort in Ko Samui.
In a separate charge, the alleged offender has was previously charged with causing his son actual bodily harm in February this year.
Queensland criminal lawyer Bill Potts says the new laws were designed to stop vulnerable children, especially in Asia, from being exploited. "The legislation was brought in to give extra-territorial power to Commonwealth criminal law," he said.
"What it means is that it doesn't matter where an offence occurs - if an Australian citizen commits an illegal act in a foreign place, they are deemed to have committed an offence under Australian law and can be punished here.
"People have to be increasingly aware, particularly in matters of morality and sexual offending, that the long arm of the Australian law can extend to wherever in the world an offence takes place."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/latest/16544960/man-allowed-son-to-have-sex-with-prostitute/
A man has been charged with child sex offences after allegedly allowing his 13-year-old son to visit a prostitute during a family holiday.According to News Limited, the 45-year-old was charged last month and faced Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday charged with two sex offences which carry a maximum 20 year sentence.
One charge alleges he caused a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual intercourse outside Australia, while the other that he procured a child to engage in sexual activity outside his place of residence. Police say the offences took place in September last year at a Thai resort in Ko Samui.
In a separate charge, the alleged offender has was previously charged with causing his son actual bodily harm in February this year.
Queensland criminal lawyer Bill Potts says the new laws were designed to stop vulnerable children, especially in Asia, from being exploited. "The legislation was brought in to give extra-territorial power to Commonwealth criminal law," he said.
"What it means is that it doesn't matter where an offence occurs - if an Australian citizen commits an illegal act in a foreign place, they are deemed to have committed an offence under Australian law and can be punished here.
"People have to be increasingly aware, particularly in matters of morality and sexual offending, that the long arm of the Australian law can extend to wherever in the world an offence takes place."
