Ice said:
Of course I will be howled down on this one............I think this has all been blown way out of proportion. After watching the footage, I see she knew what they were gonna do, yet she still climbed into bed, she laughed the whole time, and continued to lay there and joke with the boys after. There was no harm intended at all and to me it didn't look like he used much force to hold her. Assault because they held her down?! If they held her down and tickled her would that still be assault?
Camilla didn't seem too bothered at all, and I think the key to whether or not an incident is actually an assault is whether or not the victim felt threatened at all. It didn't look to me like she was and I guess that is because she knew the true intentions behind the incident. Was this really a sexual assault, or more of a tormenting act? I know a 19 yr old I know who threatened to drop his towel if his younger sister wouldn't change the tv channel or get off the computer, there was no real harm intended.
As for the message it sends to young people, well send your kids to bed, they shouldn't be watching at that time of night anyway.
These two boys are really going to suffer for this one moment of foolishness because some people want to make more of it than it really was.
Just my opinion
hate to burst you bubble but this is from the austrtalian parlimentary and legislation website
"31. Assaults
(1) A person who—
(a) assaults or threatens to assault another person with intent to commit an indictable offence; or
(b) assaults or threatens to assault, resists or intentionally obstructs—
(i) a member of the police force in the due execution of duty; or
(ii) a person acting in aid of a member of the police force—
knowing that the member or person is such a member or person; or
(c) assaults or threatens to assault a person with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detention of a person—
is guilty of an indictable offence.
Penalty: Level 6 imprisonment (5 years maximum).
(2) In sub-section (1), "assault" means the direct or indirect application of force by a person to the body of, or to clothing or equipment worn by, another person where the application of force is—
(a) without lawful excuse; and
(b) with intent to inflict or being reckless as to the infliction of bodily injury, pain, discomfort, damage, insult or deprivation of liberty—
and results in the infliction of any such consequence (whether or not the consequence inflicted is the consequence intended or foreseen).
(3) In sub-section (2)—
"application of force" includes—
(a) application of heat, light, electric current or any other form of energy; and
(b) application of matter in solid, liquid or gaseous form."
