AngeB & Augie 🐶

If you commit a crime like rape, you don't have good character. And you don't deserve glowing references. That's why we're scrapping so-called 'good character' references in sentencing. Because too often, victim-survivors are forced to sit there and listen to excuses. Letters praising the very person who harmed them. As if being a "good bloke" cancels out the violence you perpetrate. It doesn't. And it won't anymore. Our justice system should never retraumatise victims to protect the image of offenders. We'll always stand with victims of crime and make it clear: violence has consequences and your safety comes first.