> Due to an inability to access his phone as well as the fact that he used encrypted communication methods such as Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, Victoria Police was unable to access evidence which would have enabled them to secure a successful prosecution and identify further victims and offences.
That's a textbook example of begging the question, huh. Without the alleged evidence, they don't know if they would have been able to get a conviction or not.
It also presumes that none of the parents of those minor children would let police look at their kids' phones. If I were a parent in that situation and the police wanted to see what messages the accused had sent to my child, I've break the speed of sound on my way to the police station to hand it over.
So all in all, what they intended was "OMG please think of the children". What I heard was "we have incompetent police who don't understand how the justice system is supposed to work".
That's a textbook example of begging the question, huh. Without the alleged evidence, they don't know if they would have been able to get a conviction or not.
It also presumes that none of the parents of those minor children would let police look at their kids' phones. If I were a parent in that situation and the police wanted to see what messages the accused had sent to my child, I've break the speed of sound on my way to the police station to hand it over.
So all in all, what they intended was "OMG please think of the children". What I heard was "we have incompetent police who don't understand how the justice system is supposed to work".