A former police officer was under pressure from her refugee family when she took her 11-year-old nephew to a lock-up and asked he be stripsearched and treated like an adult inmate, a magistrate says, sparing her a conviction.
A former Tasmanian Police officer has avoided conviction for taking her 11-year-old nephew into a prison lock-up, where he was stripsearched and held in an adult cell, in order to"educate" him.Maureen Riziki acted to please her Congolese family who wanted the boy to be taught a lesson, her lawyer said
Maurine Riziki, 29, pleaded guilty to common assault in the Hobart Magistrate's Court on Wednesday after ordering correctional officers at the facility to treat the young boy"like an adult inmate" in January. Riziki was called to her mother's house to retrieve the child because she did"not want him anymore", following troubling behaviour, the court heard.
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