Afghan refugee who said raping woman was part of ‘cultural differences’ is jailed for 14 years

  • Daily Mail:

  • Esmatullah Sharifi, 30, targeted the drunk teenager outside a nightclub
  • Said that coming from Afghanistan meant he didn’t understand what ‘consent’ was

By Richard Shears

PUBLISHED: 05:56 EST, 12 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:10 EST, 12 April 2012

Trauma: The teenager was targeted while she was 'vulnerable' from being separated from her friends (picture posed by model)Trauma: The teenager was targeted while she was ‘vulnerable’ from being separated from her friends (picture posed by model)

An Afghan man who fled from the Taliban to begin a new life in Australia will spend the next 14 years behind bars after a judge rejected his claim that cultural differences had led to him raping a woman.

Esmatullah Sharifi, 30, was told by Judge Mark Dean in Melbourne that his background as a traumatised Muslim refugee was no excuse for the rape of a drunken and vulnerable teenager.

The judge noted that a psychologist had told the Victoria County Court in Melbourne that Sharifi, who arrived in Australia in 2001, had an ‘unclear concept of what constitutes consent in sexual relationships’.

Rejecting that argument, the judge said Sharifi’s background and flight from the Taliban was not an excuse for violence, telling the Afghan: ‘You well knew the victim was not consenting to the act of sexual penetration you performed.’

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