Thursday, July 15, 2010

Aus News 7: Mad Max actor Stephen James jailed for child sex abuse

An actor of the movie Mad Max, Stephen James and his partner, Garth Witbek have been jailed for sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy. According to the news, James were purportedly assisting the boy to enter the film industry, and the victim was offered free acting lesson and a car by James to achieve his acting dream. During the lessons, the victim was forced to take off all his clothes and sexual abuse took place after that. James also persuaded the victim to start a relationship with him and there was once where the victim was made to watch a homosexual pornographic film. The boy started to avoid the lessons and told his mother about the abuse. Both men have pleaded guilty for their shameful offence and sentenced to jail.

In my opinion, the sexual abuse has left the victim a bitter memory which maybe perpetual for the rest of his life. He will lose trust on people and may even get into certain psychological problems subsequently. As such, proper counselling should be given to those young adults so that they will know the proper way to deal with the unfortunate incidence.

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