Kids helped Vic mum with drug business

A Melbourne mother who involved her 14- and six-year-old daughters in her heroin trafficking business, sometimes sending them to collect the drugs, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

Kim Huynh, 43, was buying heroin from a neighbour in her commission flat at Fitzroy and distributing it to two dealers, whom she called her "soldiers", to sell to customers.
The drugs were collected by either Huynh or her 14-year-old daughter and both were often accompanied by Huynh's six-year-old daughter.
Huynh was jailed for a minimum two years by Victorian County Court judge Joe Gullaci on Thursday after pleading guilty to a charge of trafficking heroin from December 2009 to July 2010.
Judge Gullaci said the six-year-old was present with her older sister on multiple occasions when the teenager was sent to the neighbour's apartment to carry out drug-related business for her mother, either delivering money or collecting heroin.
"You conducted your business using your 14-year-old daughter as a conduit between yourself and your supplier," Judge Gullaci said.
He said while investigators had established Huynh had purchased 154 grams of heroin to run her "busy trafficking enterprise", there was clear evidence she had trafficked more than that, although the amount could not be precisely determined.
He said Huynh had deliberately tried to minimise her offending to attract sympathy during sessions with psychologist Dr Carla Lechner, who said Huynh was mildly intellectually disabled and trafficked heroin to pay a $40,000 debt to her neighbour.
Judge Gullaci said there was a concerning trend where psychologists simply accepted an offender's attempt to "put the best possible spin" on their criminal conduct without attempting to verify their claims by accessing evidentiary material.
He said Huynh had not been deterred by a previous wholly suspended jail sentence she received for trafficking heroin and that any intellectual disability had had little impact on her capacity to run a successful heroin trafficking business.
"You were able to organise and run a well-planned and executed trafficking business which included the use of your own daughters to hide or prevent detection," he said.

6 Sep 2012

The drug trade in Australia, also particularly Melbourne, Victoria is in the hands of Asian and Middle Eastern crime gangs.

The trade is worth an approximated $1,200 million per month.

Involving one's children is also classified as child abuse, but there will be no repercussions.

There is no policy to eradicate the drug trade from within Australia.

Top politicians, law firms are involved in drug consumption, a fact that the  corporate media is not allowed to expose.