IT'S easy to scream abuse at Justice Sarah Bradley for letting nine males walk free after pack-raping a 10-year-old girl.

It's easy to blame this judge alone for excusing them because the girl "probably agreed" to sex with youths and men as old as 26.

But when you get a decision this bizarre, you know one judge could not have made it on her own.

This is not the result of mere stupidity by one, but of a blind ideology of the New Racist kind that has helped to ruin so many Aboriginal communities. And an ideology like that is the work of an army of idiots.

But first the facts.

Bradley is a Cairns-based judge of Queensland's District Court, and president of the Australian Association of Women Judges, which might give you a clue to her leanings.

Last month she heard a case involving the rape of a 10-year-old at Cape York's Aurukun Aboriginal community by males from the town's most powerful families -- an attack that left her with gonorrhea.

But according to the prosecutor, it was just one of those "things (that) happen in a small community", and, besides, "although (the girl) was very young, she knew what was going on".

Indeed she did. She'd already been raped at seven, and it shows the depravity of Aboriginal towns such as Aurukun that a girl so young "knew what was going on" when raped.

Incredibly, Bradley bought the prosecutor's line and ruled that the six teenage juveniles would not even have a conviction recorded. The three others -- aged 17, 18 and 26 -- were given suspended sentences.

I cannot believe the judge would have let these men walk free had they or their victim been white. So why this monstrous leniency for the pack rape of an Aboriginal girl?

Because, said the judge in sentencing the juvenile rapists, "I accept that the girl . . . probably agreed to have sex with all of you".

But, she added sternly: "I hope that all of you realise that you must not have sex with young girls."

Hope away, judge, because the oldest rapist learned so little from such tut-tutting that he had since been convicted for unlawful carnal knowledge of yet another child. At least Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh, shocked by Bradley's ruling, has ordered a review of all such cases in Cape York over the past two years, saying: "I do want to satisfy myself that this is not part of a broader sentencing trend . . ."

She is right to fear it is. A journalist up there sent me a report he filed in 2002: "A judge has recorded no convictions against a gang of four teenagers who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl in a Thursday Island toilet block."

Even more telling is that Bradley was doing no more than act by the theories she and many other judges of the Left have pushed for years. This was no momentary lapse, but the act of a judge with convictions sure to produce just this kind of "justice".

To prove it, here are extracts from a speech Bradley gave in January on "Indigenous Justice Initiatives":

The statistical facts (of high rates of imprisonment) highlight why Indigenous offenders should be given special consideration in courts.

Special consideration for Aboriginal offenders?

In June 2006 the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which . . . requires States (to) consult and co-operate in good faith with the Indigenous peoples . . . in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.

So Aborigines shouldn't necessarily be bound by the laws of a land? And note this racist declaration has since been endorsed by Jenny Macklin, our new Minister for Indigenous Affairs.

On 19 December 2000 the Queensland Government entered into a justice agreement with . . . a particular target of reducing Indigenous incarceration rates by 50 per cent by 2011.

So don't jail an Aborigine if it can at all be helped?

Here are more clues, this time from a speech Bradley gave last year on Applying Restorative Justice Principles in the Sentencing of Indigenous Offenders and Children:

Justice is being done in a restorative manner when the process: Focuses on the harm done rather than the rules broken; . . . shows equal concern for victims and offenders and their communities . . . (and) encourages collaboration and reintegration rather than coercion and isolation of the offender.

Equal concern for rapist and the raped? Don't "coerce" the rapist?

Recently in Cairns, an eight-year-old, an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old were accused of raping a three-year-old girl . . . In due course, I, or a colleague, will most likely have to consider whether to refer the 11-year-old to a Youth Justice Conference . . .

Conferencing is a facilitative process which at its best provides the offender and his/her family with the opportunity to confront his/her guilt and move on . . .

"Move on"?

I think you catch the judge's drift, and you should know she's not alone. Indeed, her thoughts reflect so much of the deep-sigh Leftist thinking that has left Aboriginal communities sinkholes of despair and crime.

But I've left the most ruinous of all such Leftist theories for last -- a theory that destroyed this girl as it's destroyed all those other Aboriginal children I've told you about this year. I quote from yesterday's Australian:

A senior departmental official (said) the child involved was sexually abused at age seven and, as a safety measure, was put with various foster families, eventually ending up in 2005 with a non-indigenous family . . .

"These non-indigenous people were fantastic -- ensuring she went to school, and the father actually took a year off his work to personally supervise this girl," he said.

"But two new social workers were appointed to the north and they expressed the view, which was repeated many times to the investigating committee, that putting an indigenous child with white foster parents was another stolen generation . . ."

And so this girl was sent back to Aurukun, to be pack-raped again.

God spare Aboriginal children fashionable judges and the gaggle of theorists, academics, journalists and activists who push them on. Just look what they've done to this girl.

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