The government is supposed to kick men who abuse children out of the country – except this guy! Edward James Kilbey was jailed for 14 months two years ago after he was convicted on charges relating to holding down and sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl.
He was also charged over the abuse of a young boy but was acquitted at trial on that offence.
“You held or pinned her down,” Perth District Court Judge Felicity Zempilas said during his sentencing over the attack on the girl.
“This conduct was not fleeting and involved a degree of force or coercion by you towards her.”
The children’s families are outraged Kilbey gets to stay in Australia.
“We were completely let down, completely betrayed,” one mother told the ABC.
“His needs were put before the victim’s, before the community … why are we giving priority to an abuser over Australian child victims of sexual abuse?”
She wrote to the Immigration Minister Tony Burke three times but only received a response from the Department of Home Affairs, saying Burke was not going to act.
A Department of Home Affairs spokesperson said a minister’s powers were “non-compellable”, the ABC reports.
“That is, the ministers are not required to exercise their power,” the boy’s mum was told.
“Further, what is in the public interest is a matter for the ministers to determine.
“I appreciate this is not the response you were hoping for. I can assure you that your correspondence has been noted.”
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