Daniel Morcombe
- Episode aired Mar 16, 2014
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Daniel Morcombe
In December 2003, Daniel Morcombe was kidnapped and murdered by Brett Cowan. This documentary covers the investigation and contains two remarkable revelations. The second is the extraordinary even bizarre way the police went about extracting a confession from Cowan; the first, which is incredibly disturbing, is the fact that Cowan had two previous extremely serious convictions for sexually abusing young boys.
The first was committed when he was a teenager; the victim makes an appearance herein, and claims the attack still haunts him. Cowan received a virtual slap on the wrist for that crime, and only seven years for the second one, which was even more serious. A second rape of a young boy surely warrants a life sentence. This is all the more outrageous when one considers the Draconian restrictions that are imposed on sex offenders in many American jurisdictions. Men, and at times women, who have been convicted of relatively trivial sex offences can see their lives destroyed for what might at times be described as youthful mistakes. The programme makers, and unsurprisingly the parents of Daniel Morcombe appear to believe Australia should go down the same road.
The first was committed when he was a teenager; the victim makes an appearance herein, and claims the attack still haunts him. Cowan received a virtual slap on the wrist for that crime, and only seven years for the second one, which was even more serious. A second rape of a young boy surely warrants a life sentence. This is all the more outrageous when one considers the Draconian restrictions that are imposed on sex offenders in many American jurisdictions. Men, and at times women, who have been convicted of relatively trivial sex offences can see their lives destroyed for what might at times be described as youthful mistakes. The programme makers, and unsurprisingly the parents of Daniel Morcombe appear to believe Australia should go down the same road.
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