What did we tell you about never trusting a man who wears a goatee? The law is specific in that magistrates and judges may only ban the publication of details any details of a court case, or discussion about it, while it is underway. So, if the name of a criminal has been banned by the court in blatant disregard of what the law specifies, and more particularly if the crime in question is a sexual offence against children, then I feel obliged to ignore that ban and to ask the magistrate to justify his stance.
Would that the editors of our newspapers were to get together and challenge these offensive bans on the publication of the names of criminals once and for all. The man who was sentenced, yesterday, to two years in prison suspended for four years, for sexually propositioning primary-school boys β not secondary-school girls β when he was their religion teacher is Mark Vella Gera, born June The incidents occurred when he taught at St Michael School.
He has since been dismissed. Why would a mentally healthy man want to spend his free time doing that, instead of running around with women or taking up some normal hobby or interest? Mark Vella Gera is an amateur meteorologist who runs the organisation Malta Weather on the net, at maltaweather. He has been fascinated by the weather all his life, he claims on his site. So now we must ask ourselves whether he got into teaching, and more specifically, teaching religion, purely to put himself into contact with large numbers of young children.
Bormann, or do you model yourself on the Nazi Martin Bormann? If it is the latter, please stop doing so. This is one initiative worthy of unequivocal applause.
That is sometime the Gonzi govt. So what? On the other hand, by not publishing names you may be maybe protecting the victim, but you are SURELY protecting the offender! So, once the offender is found guilty, publish the names and put them into a sex offender book for all to know and be wary of!
