‘Her penis’: NSW District Court judge Alister Adadee’s comments about child sex offender criticised
‘Her penis’: Judge stirs up controversy over ‘confusing’ verdict as he jails child sex predator for disgusting behavior towards boy, 14, in mall restroom
- Judgment described sex offender as ‘she’ and ‘he’
A judge has referred to “her penis” in a mind-boggling ruling in the case of a convicted child molester who was born male but identifies as female.
Kahdir Kamoun exposed himself to a boy, 14, on February 18, 2021, at a Centro shopping center in Bankstown, south-west Sydney, resulting in Kamoun being convicted of intentionally committing sexual acts with a child under the age of 16.
In a published verdict upholding Kamoun’s two-year prison sentence, Judge Alister Adadee describes the predator variously as “she” and “her,” as well as “he,” “him,” and “herself.” The judge also speaks of ‘her penis’.
2 GB breakfast host Ben Fordham criticism of the written record of Judge Abadee’s April 23 decision for “confusing” language.
The controversial verdict was written by Judge Alister Abadee. Pictured, he was congratulated by the NSW Law Society when he was sworn in as a District Court Judge in 2019
Ben Fordham has blasted the language of a landmark court ruling in the case of convicted sex offender, who was born male but identifies as female, as ‘a puzzle of pronouns’
At several points, the judgment switches between different gender pronouns to describe Kamoun, who is incarcerated in a male-only prison.
At the same time, the judge avoided gender-neutral pronouns, such as she or she,
“Get a load of this piece and I quote…” The victim saw the perpetrator’s pants partially down and her penis was exposed. Her penis?’ asked Fordham.
These are two words that you don’t often see side by side. In the verdict we read twice about ‘her penis’.’
The verdict also referred to Kamoun continuing to “masturbate her bare penis” during the attack.
Fordham said he liked to respect people’s pronouns, but berated the court for not being able to “make a decision.”
“I can’t understand why we have to suspend biological reality in an official verdict on a child molester,” Fordham said.
“A child’s safety was shattered by a larva that preyed on him in a mall bathroom. Courts are supposed to rule on facts.
“The law is meant to be black and white, so why did the NSW District Court create a puzzle of pronouns when dealing with this sex offender?”
Judge Abadee’s verdict upheld the decision of December 22, 2022 in Bankstown Court, in which magistrate Walsh sentenced Kamoun to two years in prison.
Criminal defense attorney Sam Macedone described Judge Abadee’s verdict as “pretty hard to read.”
“You wonder why we switch from one gender to the other when perhaps the judge should have used neutral terms like ‘the perpetrator’,” he said.
Kahdir Kamoun was found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison over the incident, where she exposed herself to the boy in the toilets of the Centro shopping center in Bankstown in February 2021.
Fordham suggested that even using the accepted term “she” would have been less confusing than calling Kamoun both “he” and “her.”
Due to “other unrelated crimes,” Fordham said Kamoun will spend just under four years in prison.
Mr Adadee, a former lecturer at the University of Sydney and an experienced barrister, was sworn in as a District Court Judge in February 2019.
Daily Mail Australia approached Judge Adadee’s chambers for comment.