proposal
Subject: A proposal to elevate awareness of people with disabilities getting off with a light sentence in court
I write this proposal in order to raise awareness as well as to put forward a solution to the matter ‘Autistic taxman jailed for fraud’. The autistic taxman Philip Solimon Tadros has defrauded the Tax Office with the amount of $2.4 million in GST funds. Several people opposed that Tadros’ ability to reason was clouded owing to his disability and that jail would ‘traumatise’ Tadros. As a result, the judge has lessened his jail sentence. I think that this is indeed unjust. We should treat everyone, especially those with a condition or ability equally. In order to avoid handling similar situations in the future unfairly, I think laws should be adjusted to also apply to people who may have conditions and judges should be harsher and not be influenced by those around; evidently the judge felt sympathy for the accused.
Tadros has been jailed for defrauding the Tax Office with an amount of 2.4 million dollars, resulting in a jail sentence of a maximum of four years. In spite of being forewarned on June 9, 2011, Tadros has since then resumed offending activity; interfering with a total of 127 business activity statements receiving $2,417,000. Several, some of which are Judge Mark Taft, defence barrister Patrick Tehan and forensic psychologist Patrick Newton have disputed that his capacity to reason has been diminished due to his disorder. Even clinical psychiatrist Dr Danny Sullivan, who at first said even though his condition may have affected his intellectual learning, he has still managed to complete his VCE, primary and secondary school learning and become an accountant. Yet later he states that Tadros has reasoning capacity range of a primary student. Clearly, he has been swayed by the reasoning of others. To conclude, Tadros has pleaded guilty to five charges and one attempt of obtaining money.
I propose that laws be improved so that it also
I write this proposal in order to raise awareness as well as to put forward a solution to the matter ‘Autistic taxman jailed for fraud’. The autistic taxman Philip Solimon Tadros has defrauded the Tax Office with the amount of $2.4 million in GST funds. Several people opposed that Tadros’ ability to reason was clouded owing to his disability and that jail would ‘traumatise’ Tadros. As a result, the judge has lessened his jail sentence. I think that this is indeed unjust. We should treat everyone, especially those with a condition or ability equally. In order to avoid handling similar situations in the future unfairly, I think laws should be adjusted to also apply to people who may have conditions and judges should be harsher and not be influenced by those around; evidently the judge felt sympathy for the accused.
Tadros has been jailed for defrauding the Tax Office with an amount of 2.4 million dollars, resulting in a jail sentence of a maximum of four years. In spite of being forewarned on June 9, 2011, Tadros has since then resumed offending activity; interfering with a total of 127 business activity statements receiving $2,417,000. Several, some of which are Judge Mark Taft, defence barrister Patrick Tehan and forensic psychologist Patrick Newton have disputed that his capacity to reason has been diminished due to his disorder. Even clinical psychiatrist Dr Danny Sullivan, who at first said even though his condition may have affected his intellectual learning, he has still managed to complete his VCE, primary and secondary school learning and become an accountant. Yet later he states that Tadros has reasoning capacity range of a primary student. Clearly, he has been swayed by the reasoning of others. To conclude, Tadros has pleaded guilty to five charges and one attempt of obtaining money.
I propose that laws be improved so that it also