Adelaide rapist with intellectual disabilities to be kept in indefinite detention

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A serial rapist who attacked three women more than a decade ago is to be kept behind bars, the South Australian Supreme Court orders.

A serial rapist who attacked three women more than a decade ago is to be kept behind bars indefinitely, the South Australian Supreme Court ordered on Friday.He was eligible for parole in July last yearIn 2009, Aiden Harvey Driver, who has intellectual disabilities,

The court previously heard Driver had received 70 hours of intense one-on-one counselling while in prison, but still had limited insight into his offending. Driver's defence lawyer, Garen Truscott, previously told the court his client did possess insight — saying he hold told psychiatrists that he had "hurt" his victims.

 

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If crimes have been deemed to be caused by an intellectual disability (which means no conviction based on medical factors) then of course detention will be based on curing the condition. People with intellectual disabilities are placed in indefinite medical care all the time.

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