Counter-terrorism police encouraged an autistic 13-year-old boy in his fixation on Islamic State in an undercover operation after his parents sought help from the authorities.

The boy, given the pseudonym Thomas Carrick, was later charged with terror offences after an undercover officer “fed his fixation” and “doomed” the rehabilitation efforts Thomas and his parents had engaged in, a Victorian children’s court magistrate found.

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    8 months ago

    Aussie pigs are great at setting people up… This is completely fucked though. A disabled 13yo for fuck sake… Acac

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      8 months ago

      Mate you don’t want to look up what actually happens to cops when they get in trouble.

      A few years ago in Melbourne they beat up a ND guy in his yard, their punishment? They had to apologise to him.

      A cop in Geelong beat up a guy in his cell, he was close to retirement so he had to do deskwork for a month or so until he retired.

      The legal system protects its own.

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        8 months ago

        True, but if we can’t have real justice, letting everyone know what dog cunts they are might be the closest we get.

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    8 months ago

    I’m sorry, but how the fuck does an early teen with disability and an IQ of 71 manage to outdo the parents so much that they go to the police about it?

    Are they unicellular organisms or is he just the family genius?

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      8 months ago

      What does “outdo” mean in this context?

      They went to the police because they were scared he would be radicalised not knowing that that was the cops plan anyway.

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      8 months ago

      IQ’s not a great predictor of what autistic kids can do.

      Still, the saying goes: you have a problem and you call the police, now you have two problems.