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Australia's Approach to Serial Child Sex Offenders: A serial sex offender already jailed indefinitely for previous sexual crimes, has been sentenced to another 12 months' imprisonment according to a story written by Christine Flatley from The Australian. In the District Court in Brisbane, 66-year-old Keith Albert Beattie pleaded guilty today to the indecent treatment and unlawful sodomy of a 15-year-old boy in Brisbane between November 1995 and February 1996. The court was told the charges against Beattie were made after the complaintant saw him in the prison system last year. Beattie has been in jail since July 1996 for child sex offenses and today marked his ninth appearance before a court for sexual offences against a minor. Judge Michael Shanahan today sentenced Beattie to an additional 12 months jail for the latest offenses...continue to full post

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