Magistrate will be asked to consider an assault victim is a 'six-foot-six, 120kg

[stephaniec]

Magistrate will be asked to consider an assault victim is a 'six-foot-six, 120kg transgender person' when he sentences the man found guilty for fracturing her cheekbone and eye socket

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3334605/Magistrate-asked-consider-size-transgender-assault-victim.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

The Daily Mail/By Australian Associated Press and Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia
Published: 03:19 EST, 26 November 2015  | Updated: 03:48 EST, 26 November 2015

"A magistrate will be asked to consider that an assault victim is a 'six-foot-six, 120kg transgender person' when he sentences a man who attacked her during a night out at the pub.

Stephanie McCarthy suffered a fractured cheekbone and eye socket after being held down and repeatedly bashed by a gang of young men at the Town Hall Hotel - known as 'the Townie' - in inner west Sydney's Newtown on the early hours of June 6."

[Beth Andrea]

OMG what nonsense. A "gang of young men" > one person, no matter their physical size/weight.

In addition, it seems to me that ANY attack against someone who is not willing or able to fight back is still an attack, regardless of any other factors.