An Australian judge found a 70-year-old defendant guilty today of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. But he didn't just find the defendant guilty.

"You have been described before me as an aged hippie," he told the man, who listened through earphones in the Supreme Court dock.

"It seems that too many aged hippies choose to wear rose-coloured glasses," Justice Teague said. "They choose not to see the wreckage caused by marijuana which is so often the evidence before sentencing judges."

Well, it seems to me that too many idiotic judges blame crimes on culture, drugs and anything but the actual culprit: the people who commit them. Nothing more. Nothing less.

More here from The Age.