Counter-terrorism police encouraged an autistic 13-year-old boy in his fixation on Islamic State in an undercover operation after his parents sought help from the authorities.
The boy, given the pseudonym Thomas Carrick, was later charged with terror offences after an undercover officer “fed his fixation” and “doomed” the rehabilitation efforts Thomas and his parents had engaged in, a Victorian children’s court magistrate found.
Aussie pigs are great at setting people up… This is completely fucked though. A disabled 13yo for fuck sake… Acac
Those cops need to be charged and publically named by IBAC.
Mate you don’t want to look up what actually happens to cops when they get in trouble.
A few years ago in Melbourne they beat up a ND guy in his yard, their punishment? They had to apologise to him.
A cop in Geelong beat up a guy in his cell, he was close to retirement so he had to do deskwork for a month or so until he retired.
The legal system protects its own.
True, but if we can’t have real justice, letting everyone know what dog cunts they are might be the closest we get.
At least the second guy isn’t on the streets.
I’m sorry, but how the fuck does an early teen with disability and an IQ of 71 manage to outdo the parents so much that they go to the police about it?
Are they unicellular organisms or is he just the family genius?
What does “outdo” mean in this context?
They went to the police because they were scared he would be radicalised not knowing that that was the cops plan anyway.
IQ’s not a great predictor of what autistic kids can do.
Still, the saying goes: you have a problem and you call the police, now you have two problems.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Thomas, an NDIS recipient with an IQ of 71, was first reported to police by Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and then by his parents because of his fixation with Islamic State, which included him accessing extremist material online and making threats to other students.
Fleming found the JCTT also deliberately delayed charging Thomas with offences until after he turned 14, as it made it harder for him to use the defence of doli incapax, which refers to the concept that a child is not criminally responsible for their actions.
“The search involved multiple Victoria Police members under the guise of attending to provide support to the family within the CVE [Countering Violent Extremism] framework.
A police officer who performed a report based on information downloaded from Thomas’s phone found that he appeared fascinated with China and symbols of the Chinese Communist party and that there were no religious images or verses from the Qur’an present.
But the operative gave evidence that Thomas was naive, and living a “fantasy life online”, including by asking questions like whether he could join the kids’ section of Islamic State.
Fleming said the prospect of diverting and rehabilitating Thomas was always destined to fail once the operative started communicating with him, and the magistrate could not accept evidence given by police that these efforts had primacy over the criminal investigation.
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