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Subject: Re: [OT] British asylum system is a farce
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:38:29 -0400
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On 2025-03-26 11:44 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:28:55 -0500, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
>> Then there are the adult pedophiles who claim to be children who are
>> getting detained in facilities designed to hold only children and
>> families. Imagine "punishing" a pedophile by putting him AMONGST
>> children! When independent assessors determined that one such individual
>> was actually 23, the courts decided that such evidence was no longer
>> admissible!
>>
> Why is that? Was the prosecutor arguing the defendant was getting
> younger?!?

The cited video explained it. In a nutshell, the prosecutor must have 
persuaded the judge that the age of the pedophile couldn't be reliably 
determined by outside parties so the pedophile needed to be believed 
when he claimed to be under 18. (I don't remember the precise wording of 
the video and I'm inferring a bit as well but it seems like the only 
reasonable theory. If the outside party assessed the pedo as being 23 - 
which they did - I would assume the judge would accept that but, since 
the judge *didn't* accept it, I think we can assume that the prosecutor 
called the credibility of the outside assessment into question.)

For what it's worth, I remember a somewhat similar thing happening in 
Windsor, Ontario back when Trudeau took in all those Syrian refugees. 
Apparently, several Syrian families ended up in Windsor claiming that 
the family members accompanying them were under 18 so they were enrolled 
in high school. But there were strong suspicions that these "teenagers" 
were actually well into their 20s, according to a news item I saw. It 
would seem reasonable that either school staff or other students 
initiated these suspicions. I don't know if that was ever proven - or 
how it was proven if it was - so it wouldn't remotely surprise me if 
they were allowed to stay in school and either graduate or drop out.

If I recall correctly, the program under which the Syrians came to 
Canada was limited to families and their children under 18. Human nature 
being what it is, I can well imagine that families with older children 
sometimes just claimed that they were younger so that they could stay 
together. I would imagine documentation for these people was scarce at 
best given the ongoing civil war so Global Affairs probably just took 
their words for it with regards to the ages of the "children".

Of course I could be wrong. Maybe Assad's regime made meticulously 
accurate documentation available to our people and every one of those 
"children" really was under 18; maybe kids just mature faster in Syria. 
Or maybe someone in Windsor just made up this whole thing out of whole 
cloth in an attempt to make Trudeau look foolish or to mess with 
Syrians. There are always alternate possibilities.

-- 
Rhino