Results 5,601-5,620 of 18,728 for speaker:Michael McDowell
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: Yes.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: If one brings a child into a room for the purposes of observingââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: Yes, if it involved one of the earlier offences.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: It is highly unlikely.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: That could happen under the existing law too.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: No, it would not cover two young people snogging because that is not an offence.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: The child would have to be deprived of his or her liberty.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: If one is babysitting a child, one is not detaining the child.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: I am happy with Deputy Jim O'Keeffe's amendment.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: I do not think the provision is unduly wide. It believe it is a serious offence to take a child someplace and deprive him or her of his or her liberty for the purpose of observing sexual activity.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: If depriving a child of his or her liberty and then obliging him or her to observe sexual activity is not grooming, I do not know what is.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: It does not. I do not accept that proposition at all.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: I have.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: We have a Constitution, a law and a set of judges who are reasonable people. I do not believe that babysitting amounts to the detention of children. I do not believe anybody would interpret the act of babysitting in such a way.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: I appreciate that.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: I take the point that Deputy Howlin is making. The Deputy and I, along with many others, worked hard over many months at the committee chaired by Deputy Peter Power to develop an agenda for reforming the child protection law. In that context, we appreciated that the law would have to be restated. It is hard to pull it all together because it is spread over a pile of difficult and obscure...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: There is not really a party political division on this issue.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: The Deputy and I had one view and Deputy O'Keeffe had another.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: It is not an exact science. It is a case of talking about 365 days. I know that a year is a long time in the life of a child but the Deputy is talking about a fairly arbitrary distinction, one way or the other. All I am doing in this legislation is trying to give this House an occasion on which to unite to bring about small but significant improvements in our law and to deal with the...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Michael McDowell: I refer to the case of a person who communicates with a child on a number of occasions and then travels to meet that child with the purpose of inviting, inducing or coercing that child to participate in or observe activities of a sexual or indecent nature. In my opinion, that is grooming the child and is sexual exploitation of that child.