A man convicted of raping his former partner 11 times has been jailed for more than 13 years, with the judge saying 'no woman deserves to be the subject of this appalling treatment'.
A man convicted of raping his former partner 11 times has been jailed for more than 13 years, with the judge saying "no woman deserves to be the subject of this appalling treatment".Alan John Matas, 37, pleaded guilty to 25 family violence charges against his on-again, off-again partner.
Agreed facts tendered to the ACT Supreme Court revealed Matas filmed most of the offences on the victim's phone over about 25 minutes, while she was drug-affected and at times unconscious.Court documents show the man recorded the sexual assaults from a drawer beside a bed, after the pair had taken the drug GHB.
She ended her statement by saying: "I do not even want an apology from you … It will not fix the damage you have caused or take away the pain I am feeling".When handing down the man's sentence on Friday, Justice Chrissa Loukas-Karlsson told the court "no woman deserves to be the subject of this appalling treatment"."The shame belongs to the offender … it cannot and should not belong to the victim," Justice Loukas-Karlsson said.
"I think it's absolutely critical that you understand that you cannot treat a fellow human being in this way — you cannot," she said."I have two questions I want you to think about: Is this the kind of relationship that you want your children to have when they grow up? And how would you feel if a man did this to your children?"Australians have been hit by a worldwide tech outage.
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