Rape victim Tegan Wagner wants attacker’s citizenship to be stripped
ANGRY victims of a gang rapist are petitioning for his Australian citizenship to be stripped as he was released from jail yesterday. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said he’d kick them out tomorrow if he could but he doesn’t have the power to.
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ANGRY victims of a gang rapist are petitioning for his Australian citizenship to be stripped as he was released from jail yesterday.
Tegan Wagner was 14 when she was raped by a gang of Pakistan-born brothers including MMK, who did not respond yesterday when asked if he would apologise.
“I feel sick … pissed off that he’s out,” Ms Wagner told Seven News after watching footage of MMK’s release.
“In my mind they’re just as bad as terrorists. They terrorised me; they terrorised other women.”
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MMK, who cannot be identified because he was 16 at the time of the rapes, migrated to Australia two years before he and his brothers attacked 18 women in 2001-2002.
Ms Wagner is petitioning to allow the government to cancel the citizenship of dual citizens convicted of rape.
While Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has the power to deport dual citizens who are terrorists, those powers do not extend to convicted rapists.
“If I could kick them out tomorrow I would, they’re horrible individuals,” Mr Dutton said. “We’ve got laws stuck in the Senate that Labor and the Greens won’t support.”
Ms Wagner told Seven that even though MMK, now 32 — who served 16 years behind bars — will be electronically monitored until his parole ends in 2024, she believed none of the brothers can be rehabilitated because of their upbringing.
“That was part of their defence that they didn’t understand our culture, they shouldn’t be here if they don’t understand our culture,” she said.
“He (MMK) was the most violent and aggressive … he slapped me across the face and said ‘Do you want me to f … ing stab you’.”
The mother of another victim said the vicious sexual assault scarred her daughter for life and the brothers “shouldn’t be walking around in our community”.
The Daily Telegraph understands the brothers became citizens soon after their arrival in Australia. A State Parole Authority spokeswoman said MMK “will be subject to strict conditions” on parole.
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CHAPTER ONE: 15 YEARS ON BILAL SKAF STILL UNREPENTANT
CHAPTER TWO: ‘THEY SAT IN COURT LAUGHING AND JOKING’ — CUNNEEN
CHAPTER THREE: GANG RAPES HAD ‘MILITARY PRECISION’ — FINANNE
CHAPTER FOUR: ‘I FEARED GANG RAPES WOULD BECOME A TREND’ — CARR
TIMELINE: HOW THE MONTH-LONG RAMPAGE UNFOLDED