Comment by mrkeen
1 month ago
That kid stated he tried to contact ISIS, had pledged allegiance to the current ISIS leader, expressed a desire to be an ISIS recruiter, and to build and detonate a bomb at a government building. (June 2021).
It looks like he was searched on 6 October 2021 and granted bail on 8 October.
I don't know what the conditions of his bail were, but when it was revoked in June 2022, his
Google searches involved topics such as “10 ways to cover up a murder”, “how to murder”, “16 steps to kill someone and not get caught” and references to a schoolteacher.
https://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-01/Application%20for%20bail%20by%20Carrick%20%28a%20pseudonym%29%20%5B2022%5D%20VChC%204.pdf
That exactly sounds like some unhealthy obsession of a mentally unhealthy individual. It should be treated as mental disease, not as a crime, especially given the age and already established medical condition of autism.
And that's how it was being treated by the state police, before the feds engaged the kid online, and actively and deliberately undermined his rehabilitation.
Damn, why didn't they prosecute that instead? Probably would have won some public support. Declarations of a desire to commit violence are an entirely different beast than purchasing plutonium, and far more worth prosecuting.
The 13 year old ISIS supporter is a different person than the 24 year old plutonium science nerd. You're discussing a different person than TFA was about.