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Speaker 1: You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Tali Blackman from Momamea's twice daily news podcast,

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Speaker 2: The Quickie with Your Headlines for Wednesday, December seventeen. Tom Sylvanney,

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Speaker 2: the son of former AFL star Steven Sylvanney, has been

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Speaker 2: sentenced to six years and two months in prison for rape,

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Speaker 2: with a non parole period of three years and three months.

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Speaker 2: He was taken into custody following the sentence. On December five,

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Speaker 2: a jury found the twenty three year old guilty of

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Speaker 2: digitally raping a woman in a dark bedroom after a

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Speaker 2: night out with friends in January twenty twenty four. The

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Speaker 2: court heard the woman told him to stop, but prosecutor

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Speaker 2: said Sylvanney pretended to be her boyfriend. The prosecution described

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Speaker 2: the offense as rape through deception. Judge Greg Leon said

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Speaker 2: Sylvanney took deliberate steps to cover his tracks, increasing the

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Speaker 2: seriousness of the crime. His identity was pressed during the trial,

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Speaker 2: but revealed after the County Court of Victoria lifted the

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Speaker 2: order last week. In a victim impact statement, the woman

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Speaker 2: told the court the assault continues to affect her daily

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Speaker 2: life and will require years of healing. She said Tom Sylvanni,

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Speaker 2: you raped me, not once, but twice. You know this.

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Speaker 2: I know this, and now so does everyone else. Justin Quill,

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Speaker 2: partner at top tier law firm Thompson Gear has been

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Speaker 2: closely involved in this case. Justin, how did the judge

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Speaker 2: arrive at today's sentencing decision?

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Speaker 1: In coming to a sentence he's on, it had to

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Speaker 1: take into account a range of factors going in favor

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Speaker 1: of Sylvanni and some going against Sylvanni, just trying to

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Speaker 1: offend that he doesn't have prize, his youth, the fact

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Speaker 1: that he's got a good family support, factors going against

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Speaker 1: him as obviously, the fact that he didn't play guilty.

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Speaker 1: He pleaded not guilty and tried to doctor the uber receipts.

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Speaker 1: He gave evidence, said in the word witness box, and

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Speaker 1: gave evidence and lied while giving that evidence. He forced

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Speaker 1: the victim to have to retell her story and relive

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Speaker 1: her trauma and be cross examined about it and told

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Speaker 1: during cross examination that she was wrong. And we heard

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Speaker 1: her say in her victim impact statement that that was

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Speaker 1: a really significant factor for her. So and of course

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Speaker 1: he's on a took into account that victim in fact statement.

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Speaker 1: So a range of factors that all go pulling different

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Speaker 1: directions and allow he's on a settle on the sentence

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Speaker 1: that he came.

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Speaker 2: Up with, right, And what does this sentence mean for

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Speaker 2: Tom Sylvanne?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: What happens next?

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Speaker 1: What this sentence means for Tom Savanne is absent some

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Speaker 1: sort of success in an appeal, he will spend the

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Speaker 1: next three and a bit years of his life in jail.

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Speaker 1: At the very least, it could be up to six years,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's more likely to be the minimum

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Speaker 1: non parole period that he ends up serving. So it's

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Speaker 1: just over three years. And he will serve that I

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Speaker 1: suspect in protective custody. I suspect he will put himself

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Speaker 1: in protective custody, and that means for twenty three out

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Speaker 1: of twenty four hours a day he is in a

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Speaker 1: cell by himself in order to keep him away from

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Speaker 1: their general prison populationhip.

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Speaker 2: False information and manipulated images have spread widely online following

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Speaker 2: the Bondai terrorist attack, raising concerns from authorities and fact

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Speaker 2: checkers about the harm caused by misinformation. Sixteen people were

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Speaker 2: killed and dozens injured when two gunmen opened fire at

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Speaker 2: a hunker event on December fourteen. Police have declared the

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Speaker 2: shooting and active terrorism. Social media posts have falsely linked

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Speaker 2: Israel to the attack, including claims it was a false

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Speaker 2: flag operation. Fact Checkers found no evidence that people in

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Speaker 2: and authorities say there are no links between the attackers

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Speaker 2: and Israel or the IDF. A deep fake image of

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Speaker 2: victim Arson Ostrof's was circulated online, falsely betraying him as

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Speaker 2: part of most sad propaganda. The AI image shows Ostrovsky's

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Speaker 2: face being painted red with blood, insinuating that he was

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Speaker 2: not actually hurt and it was all fake. The AI

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Speaker 2: generated image included distorted vehicles, unreadable text, and impossible background details.

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Speaker 2: Ostrovsky himself later posted images from hospital showing the deep

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Speaker 2: fake was false. Other misleading images have also circulated. A

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Speaker 2: widely shared photo of a New South Wales police officer

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Speaker 2: with her hands raised was cropped and taken out of context,

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Speaker 2: giving the false impression she was surrendering or not taking action,

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Speaker 2: when in reality, police say she was directing civilians to

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Speaker 2: safety after being shot at Premier. Chris Mins also addressed

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Speaker 2: claims that police were not doing enough during the attack.

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Speaker 2: Speaking on the matter at a press conference yesterday.

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Speaker 3: If there's any suggestion that New South Wales Police didn't

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Speaker 3: this state, it should be rejected because it's not consistent

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Speaker 3: with the facts. New South Wales Police officers, some of

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Speaker 3: whom had been in the job for a number of months,

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Speaker 3: put their lives on the line to save people in

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Speaker 3: this state and I think this rushed to conclusions before

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Speaker 3: all the facts are known, in my view, is disrespectful

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Speaker 3: to their actions on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Factcheckers have also debunked to misidentified images of hero Ahmed

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Speaker 2: al Ahmed and incorrectly labeled videos from the scene. Authorities

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Speaker 2: warned that these false images and out of context posts

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Speaker 2: exacerbate trauma for victims, families and first responders while spreading

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Speaker 2: confusion online. Five children are facing life without a father

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Speaker 2: after Rabbi Elie Schlanger was killed in Sunday's terror attack

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Speaker 2: at Bondai. The forty one year old, who had welcomed

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Speaker 2: his fifth child just two months ago, was remembered as

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Speaker 2: one of the purest and most sincere and compassionate people

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Speaker 2: at a funeral. Health Bondai Synagogue today. His two month

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Speaker 2: old baby remains in hospital after being hit by shrapnel

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Speaker 2: during the attack, and his wife Kaya, was also injured

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Speaker 2: while trying to protect him and their child. Friends say

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Speaker 2: the infant is not out of the woods just yet.

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Speaker 2: Hundreds of mourners, including rabbis from the US and Singapore,

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Speaker 2: described him as everything to the family and praised his

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Speaker 2: dedication to the Jewish community. Rabbi Richie Moss said Schlanger's

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Speaker 2: loss was massive for the entire Jewish nation and highlighted

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Speaker 2: his lifelong commitment to spreading love and joy. Premier Chris Min's,

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Speaker 2: former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and Federal Opposition leader Susan

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Speaker 2: Lee attended the service. Pop star Justin Bieber has been

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Speaker 2: seen praising Ahmed al Ahmed, the hero who disarmed one

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Speaker 2: of the Bondai Beach gunmen, during a Twitch live stream

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday. Talking with friends backstage, Biber called the act

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Speaker 2: krazy and described al Ahmed as a hero for wrestling

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Speaker 2: the gun from the shooter. The guy is a hero

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Speaker 2: of the guy that disarmed him.

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Speaker 1: The video, he disarms the guy with the gun on

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Speaker 1: the beach.

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Speaker 2: Al Ahmed remains in hospital recovering from the bullet wounds

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Speaker 2: after risking his life during the attack. He has received

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Speaker 2: international recognition, including from the US President and King Charles.

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Speaker 2: A fundraiser in his honor has raised two million dollars,

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Speaker 2: and he's likely to receive a bravery award from the

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Speaker 2: Governor General for his heroic actions. And that's your evening

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Speaker 2: news headlines. In tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, will you

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Speaker 2: take the time to remember the victims of the Bondai

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Speaker 2: Beach terror attack, who they were and how their memory

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Speaker 2: lives on. Plus, we pay tribute to the acts of

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Speaker 2: bravery that emerged from such a tragic incident. Listen to

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