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Hassan Nagi should not receive a harsh sentence for rapes, Sydney court hears

TAXI driver Hassan Nagi should not receive a harsh sentence for raping three women as he suffered a condition called "Don Juanism" which made him addicted to sex, his barrister said yesterday.

Clive Steirn SC also urged a District Court judge in Sydney to spare the sex predator a "crushing" sentence because he never bashed his victims while he was raping them.

"There was no gratuitous violence. None of the women was physically harmed. It's an important consideration," he said.

The submissions drew gasps from the public gallery, including from two of Nagi's victims. It also earned a rebuke from Judge James Bennett who said: "He doesn't get rewarded for not belting them."

Mr Steirn said Nagi, 37, from Bexley, had been diagnosed with Don Juanism after visiting brothels from the age of 20. The disorder was "a man's equivalent of nymphomania".

Article from February with details of the cases.

I still have no words. I actually Googled this, hoping it wasn't true, which was how I found the earlier article that just increased my RAGE.

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sheep
2009-05-27 09:01 pm UTC (link)

I don't think so, we are talking about people who can knowingly defend murderers, rapists and paedophiles and the like, in the first place. And get them off. What's a few words?

It may not be that he believes them, but that he knows a lot of people have internalised fucked up views about rape. I'm not saying it's right, but it doesn't necessarily mean that he thinks his client should actually get off for those reasons, just that there is a chance some one else might believe it. If the thinks there is a snowballs chance, he may consider it his duty to go for it.

I'd say the fact that he thinks it might help should me more of an indication of just how messed up peoples views in general are, rather than the lawyers personal opinion.

Thankfully the Judge seemed more on the ball than most on this particular topic. With another judge, it might have actually worked. And I don't think it's that unlikely that some would be sucked in by that argument. It's not is fault, he's sick. He didn't actually hurt them, so it's not really any different than sex. These are arguments we unfortunately see fairly regularly, they aren't all that far out there.

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