'More needs to be done' to house WA's sex deviants, judge says
A Supreme Court judge has suggested WA introduce a specially built accommodation for the state’s sex offenders so they can be freed from prison.
Tyrone Corbett received the first of his five convictions for sex offences at 15 years old but despite improving considerably during his rehabilitation process, there is now nowhere capable of housing him, The West Australian reports.
After the exhaustive efforts failed to find somewhere that would suitably supervise the convicted criminal, Justice Stephen Hall said there needed to be more done to house the state’s most dangerous pedophiles.
“This case makes it plain that merely relying on existing sources of accommodation is not sufficient,” Justice Hall said.
“More needs to be done. No doubt there are financial implications, but these must be weighed against the serious consequence of depriving a man of his liberty.”
There are now calls that WA introduce a facility like Victoria’s “village of the damned” in Ararat.
It was added that such a facility in WA would cost far more than the $112,000 a year currently spent housing the dangerous sex offenders.
