The BBC’s report of a judge’s decision not to jail nine men guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl in an Aboriginal community has triggered outrage in Australia, and I’m not surprised.

I rarely even read the news, only happening to see this headline on Google’s home page by chance, and it’s even rarer for me to want to put virtual pen to virtual paper to comment on it, but this one is so wrong that it’s hard to know where to begin.

It used to annoy me that the British courts would occasionally let somebody off a drink driving charge because “their jobs depended on their ability to drive”. Well, if being able to drive was so important to these idiots, then they shouldn’t have been drinking and driving in the first place. It seems pretty simple to me!

But this case is way worse than that.

To start with, the nine men apparently admitted to the rape, which should have made this an open and shut case from the word go.

But if that weren’t enough, you’d have thought that a judge who came to this startling conclusion would be a male … but you’d be wrong!

Judge Sarah Bradley apparently told the nine men that the victim “probably agreed to have sex with all of you”.

Apart from the fact that this amounts to pure supposition – her use of the word “probably” shows that there was no concrete evidence to support this – and should therefore be inadmissible in a court of law, the fact remains that these nine men had sex with a 10-year old girl.

In most “civilised” countries, sex with a minor is illegal, regardless of whether she consented or not, and in some countries is deemed to be statutory rape.

But even this wasn’t enough for this excuse of a judge to convict these criminals – six probations and three suspended sentences for people who have not only ruined a young girl’s life but also set an example that seems to say that it’s OK to rape women, including young girls at.

It does make you wonder whether this judge, who you have to assume can’t be a mother herself or she would never have come to such a ridiculous and derisory decision, would have made the same statement if the victim involved had been a white girl.

People all over Australia, whether they are directly involved in this case or not, should be up in arms about this decision, and in my opinion, this judge should be disbarred on the grounds that she is clearly not able to differentiate right from wrong.