PORN & VIOLENCE

Pornography 'desensitised' teen rapist

The Northern Territory Supreme Court has heard a teenager who raped a 24-year-old woman had been surrounded by pornography, alcohol and drug abuse as a young child.
The 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty to raping the woman in an Alice Springs park in February.
The court heard he had been drinking with the woman as part of a larger group and convinced her to go for a walk.
He attacked her when she refused his advances.

Chief Justice Martin acknowledged the boy had been desensitised to violence, including sexual violence, as a young child, having watched pornography with his uncle as a six- or seven-year-old.

[Note that the judge says the boy was desensitised to violence through watching porn, not through watching Arnie flicks or Wrestle Mania. More likely he was desensitised to violence by being beaten and abused himself. Or perhaps he was born a psychopath.]