Mufiz Rahaman told a court that when he raped a ten year old boy, he didn’t know he was breaking the law because it is socially acceptable in his home country of Myanmar. The ten year old that he abused is also a refugee looking for asylum in Australia. This highlights the trouble with bringing in refugees from countries run by Muslims. The wholesale rape of the women and children isn’t considered an abomination in their countries.
Both rapist and the victim were living in a refugee camp just outside Sydney. Rahaman told the court that he he’d been raped when he was a young boy. To him it was natural, so the judge naturally sentenced him to five years in prison.
Rahaman told the court he had been a victim of sexual abuse as a child before he moved to Australia.
Judge Andrew Scotting said Rahaman failed to understand his actions would ‘physically’ and ‘psychologically damage’ his young victim.
He also said Rahaman, who insisted he thought sexual assault was not seen as morally wrong in his homeland, had not accepted responsibility for his actions and demonstrated a ‘lack of morality’, according to the Daily Telegraph.
‘There is a need for specific deterrence … The offence appears to have been (viewed) as being culturally acceptable conduct in the offender’s childhood,’ Judge Scotting said.
The Daily Telegraph reports, via the Daily Mail, that 20-year-old Mufiz Rahaman told Sydney’s Downing Centre Court that sexually assaulting children was not viewed as morally wrong in his country of origin, as he pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault.
Rahaman and the boy, also a refugee, are stateless Rohingya Muslims, a religious minority of “people considered illegal immigrants from Bangladesh by the Buddhist-majority in Myanmar—who came to Australia to flee religious persecution,” according to the Daily Mail.