News headline….. Former NRL star Brett Finch fighting to avoid jail…

[eddie]

Disgraced ex-NRL star Brett Finch has avoided jail for sending a series of “depraved” child abuse messages via a sex chat service after a judge accepted they were part of a desperate and “absurd” attempt to feed his drug addiction.

The former Melbourne Storm premiership hero, State of Origin star and broadcaster’s spectacular fall from grace was completed on Wednesday as he was sentenced inside Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.

Finch, 41, has become a social pariah since he admitted to sending a series of sexually charged voice messages about young boys in a gay sex chat service.

However, he blamed his offending on his cocaine addiction and explained it was part of an ill-thought-out attempt to obtain drugs.

Judge Phillip Mahony on Wednesday said the messages could “only be described as highly depraved and sexualised content referring to boys” but also accepted they were driven by Finch’s desire to score cocaine.

Finch pleaded guilty to one count of using a carriage service to make available child abuse material after he was arrested in his Sans Souci home in December last year following a 13-month police investigation.

[Mickie Lane]

Finchy was lucky they believed his BS story.
Look on Pedophiles I agree they are a blight on society but they are also another part of what makes up the human race like trannies, cross dressers & other weirdo's.
Humans are complex strange beings that come in all different varieties.
From what Ive read of history once upon a time it wasnt uncommon for say a King to be in relationships with children of the same sex.
When I did my placement as a nurse in the mental health section of the correctional services I attended programmes were they try to re wire sex offenders so that they dont recommit those crimes again & I actually admirred those nurses & doctors who try to help change them because most people in todays society would probably just shoot them.

[King Salvo]

Finchy was lucky they believed his BS story.
Look on Pedophiles I agree they are a blight on society but they are also another part of what makes up the human race like trannies, cross dressers & other weirdo's.
Humans are complex strange beings that come in all different varieties.
From what Ive read of history once upon a time it wasnt uncommon for say a King to be in relationships with children of the same sex.
When I did my placement as a nurse in the mental health section of the correctional services I attended programmes were they try to re wire sex offenders so that they dont recommit those crimes again & I actually admirred those nurses & doctors who try to help change them because most people in todays society would probably just shoot them.

Can they change though?

Not equating them to these individuals but they have been undertaking research on the brains of serial killers/ Multiple murderers post mortem and some have shown that their brains show abnormal activity in a variety of brain regions, especially the prefrontal cortex involved with empathy, judgment, and forethought.

Many have shown no abnormalities at all too.

A majority of individuals who commit murder for instance stop after one due to being disgusted with what they have have done etc(maybe caught too) - Serial killers/Multiple murderers continue as basically they like it and get a thrill out of it each time.

[ism22]

Finchy was lucky they believed his BS story.
Look on Pedophiles I agree they are a blight on society but they are also another part of what makes up the human race like trannies, cross dressers & other weirdo's.
Humans are complex strange beings that come in all different varieties.
From what Ive read of history once upon a time it wasnt uncommon for say a King to be in relationships with children of the same sex.
When I did my placement as a nurse in the mental health section of the correctional services I attended programmes were they try to re wire sex offenders so that they dont recommit those crimes again & I actually admirred those nurses & doctors who try to help change them because most people in todays society would probably just shoot them.

1. I think it's pretty obnoxious that you're comparing people who legally have different preferences to you in bed to convicted criminals. I don't judge what two consenting adults do in bed as that's their business and they're old enough to know what makes them tick.

2. Having worked in prisons (including with paedos as clients), the consensus on them is that it's a control thing, not a sexual preference. That is, they are adults who get their kicks outta hurting people. Lotsa groups of aduots like hurting people (e.g. wife beaters and stuff). The only difference with paedos is that they are so far down in the food chain that the only people they can hurt are children (usually their own children).

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Not on Finchie's side (and I'm not across the facts or the legal tests that played out). However, the media's reporting is that he posted fake messages on a group (not sure how he sourced them) while saying 'if you gimme drugs, I'll get you more messages'.

Reportedly he received a 2 year suspended sentence that he's able to serve in the community (largely because no actual children were hurt and he's done a lot of good for the community in a past life). This involves regularly checking-in at the cop shop, seeing a psych regularly and being on a short lease whereby he'll most likely be sent straight to the slammer if he farks up.

From a rehabilitation perspective, another piece of the puzzle is that this guy's now on the cops' books and they're gonna have an eye on him the whole time (including all his movements, phone calls and internet activity). I'm confident that they'll be able to get him and put him away for much longer if he stuffs up. Double edged sword for him in that respect... if he behaves then he can do alright and earn some more freedom. If he can't reform his ways then he'll get put away for longer with a pretty much guaranteed custodial sentence.

[Carlos Parra]

Finchy was lucky they believed his BS story.
Look on Pedophiles I agree they are a blight on society but they are also another part of what makes up the human race like trannies, cross dressers & other weirdo's.
Humans are complex strange beings that come in all different varieties.
From what Ive read of history once upon a time it wasnt uncommon for say a King to be in relationships with children of the same sex.
When I did my placement as a nurse in the mental health section of the correctional services I attended programmes were they try to re wire sex offenders so that they dont recommit those crimes again & I actually admirred those nurses & doctors who try to help change them because most people in todays society would probably just shoot them.

Piano wire should do the trick.