Doctor gets 10 years for raping wife

AdelaideNow... Doctor gets 10 years for raping wife: "A doctor who repeatedly raped and photographed his unconscious wife breached her trust 'as a doctor, a husband and a human being', the District Court has ruled."
This case is unprecedented in Australian law. I have thought about whether to blog about it, but I have come back to when someone killed my cat and my daughter, 12 at the time, found it on our driveway when we were going out to visit my mother who was dying of cancer. I said then that people just do not think. They just do not know what is going on behind closed doors, because I had looked after my mother for 8 weeks at home and it was really , really hard and then someone killed our cat and that was so cruel and so overwhelmingly painful. That closed door image has stayed with me and I am mindful that people can appear to be one thing when they are living in hell behind closed doors. In smaller communities it is hard to behave like that, but in the suburbs and city...who knows? The wife found the photos on the computer hard drive in 2003 and she had been raped and photographed from 2002. She had been medicated. She put up with all of that and did not say a word. She must have been terrified but she must also have felt so powerless because what happened to her was something she obviously couldn't talk about to anyone. I guess that's why I want to blog it. I cannot bear the thought she put up with that and didn't act until she found the photos...and the moment she found the photos, how lonely and in despair must she have felt? Her husband didn't even hide them. So, that was her reality and presumably she had kept up a front. It is so sad she had no one to turn to and felt she had to keep quiet about it. That really is abuse and very successful abuse.

The doctor appears to have been quite normal and of good character until this occurred and the judge believes he is unlikely to reoffend. Is that because he would target no one else but his wife? What will happen to him after 10 years in gaol? Isn't his wife at risk again? If he is judged to be of good character, then who has made this judgement? People don't do things like this out of nowhere. It's a state of mind which develops and grows. Why would he do this? It really is a horrible thing to do to someone and it is not normal. He is very , very sick. How did he get sick? What has affected him to turn him into this type of man? He believes the acts were consensual. Well, a sick mind thinks all sorts of things and in his altered state he probably did believe that. I do not see how 10 years in gaol will help him, because he badly needs treatment, but he cannot be free in his present state because he is very dangerous. I should like to think he will get proper psychiatric treatment and his state of mind will be identified. I also hope the wife has proper care and help...but most of all I hope that we , as a community, can make it possible for people, who are living in acutely abject circumstances, to be able to tell us, so they do not have to continue living behind closed doors like that. We hate hearing things like this...but we are not living them. We need to stop living them which is one reason to find out why that doctor lost his mind and his capacity to respect his own wife.