A man who broke into a house, abducted a five-year-old girl and repeatedly raped her has been sentenced to an additional 13 years in jail.
Adelaide man Samuel Paul Healey, 23, is already serving a 15-year sentence for a very similar crime at Byron Bay in northern New South Wales a year later.
Healey broke into a house at Parkside in Adelaide in 2002.
Armed with a large knife, he snatched the girl, took her to a sports oval and repeatedly abused her.
He returned to the house and tried to take the girl's sister.
Healey fled to New South Wales. A year later he broke into a house at Byron Bay, abducted a seven-year-old girl and also raped her in a park.
He has already been sentenced to 15 years' jail for that offence.
Now he has been sentenced to an extra 13 years.
Justice Tim Anderson said Healey was a severely disturbed man and the crime was brazen, terrifying and calculated.
He will be eligible for parole when he is 40.
'Hope he never gets out'
The father of the Adelaide victim is pleased the case has ended.
"I have no emotion for that rock spider, he deserves everything he gets and more," he said.
"I hope he never gets out. I don't want any family to suffer what my family has suffered.
"I think he should be afraid of the people he's inside with. Hopefully there'll be some natural justice where he is and he'll get everything and more that he deserves."
A prosecution bid to have Healey locked up permanently was rejected, but the girl's father hopes the sentence could be reviewed.
"The Attorney-General can still step in and hopefully that might happen," he said.
Quote: If there is any 'violence' as there is in jail - then the only trouble with that "hope" by the father of a victim quote: "I think he should be afraid of the people he's inside with. Hopefully there'll be some natural justice where he is and he'll get everything and more that he deserves." - is if or when he may get out again? Some prisoners who have been mistreated by authorities - or raped or brutalised in prison by whoever was let into their cage - or whoever they're placed with - may rape or even kill 'others' when they get out, again. Including those who this person is meant to be afraid of. They may also get out too!!!
This article seems to be sending the wrong message by the ABC - a clear message to the authorities in prison to punish or abuse him more? - and a clear message to the other prisoners in prison to punish him more and perhaps repeat his crime in prison or to use violence against him?
So if he did get out after that then whose child will be next? The ABC should be reprimanded? Is that a public broadcasters job to broadcast threats of violence? Is that a pragmatic and diplomatic way to treat a decision by a court of law? Better he gets some help and serves his sentence of 28 years judicial punishment. In the mean time go find out why he was a "severely disturbed man". What about it ABC? You get paid to do your job and we don't. I notice that the article was quick to nail him for a long sentence but short of pragmatic ideas that may prevent crime down the track- by others who may have the same profile. That is how you prevent crime - by looking into the predisposing factors that led to the crime.
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