Asylum seeker 'groped boys'

[catsnknots]

Really??? 

I find this very concerning....  not a good look for those good people that have come here in great need and do follow our laws... 

What can we do to help prevent this situation....  these asylum seekers have already arrived.... they are here... how do we educate them and ensure they will follow our laws and our way of life... 

An Afghan asylum seeker living in the community while awaiting deportation is facing child sex charges after he allegedly indecently assaulted two boys at a public swimming pool in Seville Grove.

Armadale detectives allege Ali Khan Ibrahimi groped the boys, aged 11 and 14, in a pool at Armadale Aquatic Centre on a Sunday afternoon in January. The boys reported the incident to a lifeguard and centre staff notified police.

Mr Ibrahimi, a father of three young children, arrived on Christmas Island by boat last year. The Immigration Department had refused him a protection visa, despite his fears of persecution by the Taliban, but he had been allowed to live in the community while waiting to be sent home.

He is now in an immigration detention centre and will face court next month on a charge of indecent dealing with a child under 13 and indecent dealing with a child over 13 and under 16.

The allegations come weeks after shadow immigration minister Scott Morrison claimed asylum-seeker boat arrivals were given a "light touch" security assessment before being released into the community, after a Sri Lankan man on a bridging visa allegedly indecently assaulted a Sydney student last month.

Mr Ibrahimi, who spoke to _The West Australian _about his fight to stay in Australia before the allegations emerged, was among 88 asylum seekers rescued by the navy in February last year when their people-smuggling boat split in two.

Like Mr Ibrahimi, most aboard were Hazara, fleeing the persecution of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The 38-year-old was shot in the stomach and leg and his father and two uncles were killed by the Taliban in 2001 when his family fled their village after refusing orders to join the jihad and fight against their own people.

Mr Ibrahimi spent several years living illegally in Pakistan under what he claims was constant threat to his life, before desperation led him to pay people smugglers.

The Australian Government said in its refusal of Mr Ibrahimi's refugee application in August that it accepted his story but "given the passage of time since the incident occurring and the Taliban . . . not actively targeting Hazara Shi'as (as) they were during their rule in Afghanistan", they could "not be satisfied that he would be targeted upon his return on account of his race and religion".

[izabsmiling]

the Court case would also be for justice for the alleged victims ?

[puddleback]

If I was an alleged victim I was be overjoyed to know the man had been thrown out of the country never to return.

But I guess that if he is convicted it goes on his "record" and hopefully make it very difficult for him to go another country.....so hopefully we don't just send the problem elsewhere.

[j*oono]

What if the boys were lying?  I'm not suggesting at all that they were but surely the man needs a trial before he his thrown back to the Taliban because such things do happen.  

[azureline**]

Possible.

However, he was being sent back because it was shown he was in no danger.

[vampire-teddy]

this is an individual issue not an asylum seeker one.  there are many australian men who go to bali and thailand and abuse children does that mean all australian men are pedophiles - of course not.  he is here so he should face the same laws that any other person in this country does.  

we are all people good and bad i simply cannot understand how people can judge others simply on race, religion, sexuality etc.  also can't understand the belief that we own this country so no-one else has the right to come here.  i am grateful that I was born in Australia and am willing to share that.  i don't own the country and will only be here for a brief time in the scheme of things.  yes i certainly believe that criminals should be punished but judging all people from a group according to the behaviour of a few is ridiculous.

[puddleback]

Teddy and Joono...it is immaterial to me whether he is an asylum seeker or not...the Australian Govt were sending him abck as he was no longer considered to be in danger.. so he was no entitled to enter the country under this manner.

Regardless of whether he is convcted or not he is still being deported...so why waste the money of a trial..except that if he is convicted he will have no come back?

Where will he serve his sentence if convicted?