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Dobbing parents pay off for son
Kim Arlington
October 5, 2010

It must be a terrible dilemma for a parent - if you suspect your child is involved in something illegal, do you tell police?

Gregory Barlow's parents did. And in a decision backed by the Court of Criminal Appeal, a judge has taken it into account when giving their son a lighter sentence.

Barlow was 19 when his parents grew worried about his behaviour. They discovered $14,000 in the boot of his car and a small amount of what they thought were drugs in his bedroom. After some deliberation, they contacted police.

Barlow admitted to police that he had $120,000 in cash from the sale of 10,000 ecstasy tablets. He later pleaded guilty to supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, which carries a standard 10-year non-parole jail term.

Several elements weighed in his favour when Barlow was sentenced in April to 2½ years of periodic detention, to serve at least 15 months. The District Court judge, Colin Charteris, considered the need ''not to deter parents from bringing to attention illicit behaviour of their children".

The Crown challenged the sentence as inadequate and disputed that this was a proper consideration for sentencing as it rewarded the child for the parents' conduct. But the appeal judges, James Allsop, Lucy McCallum and Derek Price, disagreed.

Justice McCallum conceded it was rare not to impose a full-time jail term but said the sentence was ''a thoughtful and sensible exercise of judicial discretion''.

Justice Price said Barlow had reacted positively to his parents' intervention and Judge Charteris was confident about his prospects of rehabilitation given ''the support of loving parents''.

The parents' decision could not have been easy, Justice Allsop said, but it promoted the objectives of sentencing by increasing the likelihood the community would be protected and Barlow would be rehabilitated.

''Realistically, it was a decision that many parents would baulk at,'' Justice Allsop said.

''Even more would they baulk if they thought that the law would take it as a matter of no account in the sentencing process.''
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I didn't put this in the drug bust mega thread because I thought it was unusual for parents to do dob in their son. I'm curious to see what you guys think, my parents as I've said before hate drug's more then most people. I can't see them dobbing me in if I used a little bit but if I ever were to go down the path of dealing and they found out. I would bet my dad would send me to the slammer.

It's a tricky subject because whilst I don't see anything wrong with what he was doing I don't entirely blame the parents for doing what they did based on what I assume their knowledge of Drugs is.
However I think they definately should have approached their son first, maybe one good talk could have got him stopped dealing for the rest of his days and the cash could go towards his future, or punished him by making him give all the profits to charity.

If them speaking to him would have been enough to stop him from dealing then he doesn't need to be rehibillitated and doesn't need to serve time at such a place ;)
 
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"I would bet my dad would send me to the slammer."

Damn dude... I feel bad for you living under that "we are highly educated and drugs are bad" bullshit...in reality they need some proper fucking schooling my friend..

lol..

I thank my lucky stars that i popped out in 89 and not a year later... These days parents are drug testing and everything. Its utter bullshit...


But i guess you have to HAVE actual drugs to test positive.. so most kids are safe! Oh...except for that nasty piperazine stuff which is.. well... basically all pills..but parents arent worried about that because they havent had an ACA story jammed down there throat regarding an epidemic.

:-)
 
My parents had me raided by the drug squad when I was 16. I have never spoken to them since.

How old are you TS14? Sounds like it is time to move out.
 
Verybuffed said:
My parents had me raided by the drug squad when I was 16. I have never spoken to them since.

How old are you TS14? Sounds like it is time to move out.
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Wow, that's pretty fucked up.

Anyway, I really oppose this, since I think it'll probably turn the kid against the parent and not do anything to better the life of the kid. I think the whole 'I went to jail and realised I was on a dark path and turned my life around!' is usually bullshit, they come out with more criminal connections and less job prospects in the real world, and now they don't even have their parents to support them.
 
No doubt, the parents are brainwashed scum.

Although we are assuming the kid was all nice and good lol.. if all he did was sell pills and his parents came across the cash... shit... that's fucked up to call the cops.

He shouldnt have admitted to anything though... foolish as well... it was kinda him against the world in that one eh..
 
er 10 thousand pills 8o that's some serious quantity!! He's probably lucky his olds found out and dogged him - he would have got the full 10 years when he was inevitably caught anyway a little while later :|
 
This is sad.

The parents have sent their own son to Australia's best criminal college...

He has a high chance of coming out worse than when he went in. I doubt he will have any time for his oldies when he gets out.

Sending your 19 y.o son to jail is a dog act in my books. I fail to see the love in it, even if they thought it was for the best and are straight/strict.

They should have just talked to him about it, maybe made a few threats about getting the authorities involved and I'm sure he would have changed his ways (or at least hid them a bit better from his folks). What was he doing at home with all that cash any way? Most youngens would have been gone once they made enough to live out of home.

My oldies never did drugs and were against them, but they never would have dobbed me into the cops.

Why are they going through his car boot and bedroom when he is over 18 any way? I left home about then, but if I found out my rents were going through my stuff I'd be furious!

All in all, mega FAIL. They have fucked his life up, he now has a criminal record and will find it hard to get a decent job. This will then lead to him falling back on his jail connections.

Top marks for treachery!!!
 
I think my parents would be happy with me having $120k..
 
What a fucked up situation. Poor guy.

PsiloSubNaut said:
Why are they going through his car boot and bedroom when he is over 18 any way? I left home about then, but if I found out my rents were going through my stuff I'd be furious!
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I know several people whose parents think nothing of searching their room/bags/etc.. Really sucks but they aren't in a situation to leave home and can't do anything about it :(
 
Thanks belarki for adding the link, forgot.

My parents had me raided by the drug squad when I was 16. I have never spoken to them since.

How old are you TS14? Sounds like it is time to move out.
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Thats messed up dude, nah I have it pretty sweet at home, as long as my old man doesn't find out about my antics, I'll tell him one... when I'm 30 haha. And I'm 21 ;) But I have to have moved out by July next year anyway.
 
Divine Moments said:
I know several people whose parents think nothing of searching their room/bags/etc.. Really sucks but they aren't in a situation to leave home and can't do anything about it :(
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I hear similar stories all the time.

I couldn't care less about parents wanting to know what their young teenager is up to, but once they are of legal age I have an issue with behavior such as room searches.

Just as they would not expect you to go through their personal possessions in their absence, so too should you expect them to act in a similar manner.
 
PsiloSubNaut said:
I couldn't care less about parents wanting to know what their young teenager is up to, but once they are of legal age I have an issue with behavior such as room searches.
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Start hiding extreme sex toys or soiled fetish gear where they are looking. That will give them something else to worry about.
 
I had some pretty extreme sex toys from my early teens and got busted having sex as many times as I got busted smoking pot. My olds were more worried about the pot than the sex and I probably would be too with a young teen, undeveloped brain etc...
 
This sounds a lot like what my mother would do if I was to ever go down this path and she found out...

She hates drugs so so much and I don't understand why, especially when she works in the medical industry and takes 'legal' drugs herself for medical problems..........

My mum wouldn't even think twice if she found a big bag of drugs and money in my possession, she would probably go to the police station while I wasn't home and invite them in and have them wait for me to return so that I would not have a chance to explain myself.

Her opinion on drugs is that they are bad for you and that they ruin families and lives, their is no other side to them in her books.

I feel sorry for this bloke, his parents could of at least given him one warning and maybe sat down with him and had a chat!
 
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