Lately there have been a number of rape cases around. Very sad indeed, and I really feel for the victims. Those poor girls have to bear with the trauma all their lives. Worse is if they get pregnant after the rape.
Then moral issues will be involved. To keep the baby, since the baby is innocent, but then seeing the child will forever remind her of her ordeal, or to get rid of the baby but bear with the guilt of killing an innocent life, and her own child at that? I wonder which is worse.
The saddest case is that of a father raping his teenage daughters. Apparently, one of them got pregnant as a result. In the first place, will the child be considered her sibling or her child? And if she keeps the child, besides the fact that he / she may not be physically or mentally normal, will she be able to live with the fact that her own father fathered the child?
I will say, let the father hang for doing such a dastardly deed. Sadly, there is no death penalty for rapists. Death penalty is only for drug traffickers in possession of more than a certain amount of drugs, and murderers who committed first-degree premeditated murder beyond any reasonable doubt.
The harshest punishment for rape is an imprisonment of twenty years and caning, as indicated in Section 375 of the Penal Code. I find that a little too lenient, where rapists are concerned actually.
If the winds of fate have blown the other way, I might have become a Deputy Public Prosecutor, and I would have proposed a harsher punishment for rapists. These people are just so heartless, selfish and self-centred! Imagine just a few moments of uncontrolled pleasure can run someone's life just like that.
Besides the trauma of being raped and getting pregnant with an unwanted child, what if the girl contracted some sexually-transmitted diseases or AIDS due to this? Then her whole life is indeed runied.
She can never lead a normal healthy life, be in a relationship or get married. And not being able to have someone by your side to love is one of the most lonesome and depressing things to happen.
What would have been the punishment I would have suggested? Castration. You may think I am mean, heartless, cruel or what not, but in the first place, would those rapists have considered how mean or heartless or cruel they were before they did what they did?
Granted every man has needs, every man is lustful, and some much more than others. But then if all the guy want is sex, there are so many other ways to have himself satisfied. There are professional sex workers, there are girlfriends (provided she is willing), there are wives (that is the wife's duty after all), there are even girls one can pick up in a bar and have flings with.
Although I also do not approve of flings and one night stands or visiting prostitutes, these are still much better than raping someone. Why must they hurt some innocent stranger for just a few moments of hormonal release?
I feel we have to get them where they hurt, otherwise who is to know if they will go back to their old ways the moment they are released from jail? As long as their members are still active, there is no guarantee they will not do the same thing again. Afterall, it is hard for leopards to change their spots.
Then moral issues will be involved. To keep the baby, since the baby is innocent, but then seeing the child will forever remind her of her ordeal, or to get rid of the baby but bear with the guilt of killing an innocent life, and her own child at that? I wonder which is worse.
The saddest case is that of a father raping his teenage daughters. Apparently, one of them got pregnant as a result. In the first place, will the child be considered her sibling or her child? And if she keeps the child, besides the fact that he / she may not be physically or mentally normal, will she be able to live with the fact that her own father fathered the child?
I will say, let the father hang for doing such a dastardly deed. Sadly, there is no death penalty for rapists. Death penalty is only for drug traffickers in possession of more than a certain amount of drugs, and murderers who committed first-degree premeditated murder beyond any reasonable doubt.
The harshest punishment for rape is an imprisonment of twenty years and caning, as indicated in Section 375 of the Penal Code. I find that a little too lenient, where rapists are concerned actually.
If the winds of fate have blown the other way, I might have become a Deputy Public Prosecutor, and I would have proposed a harsher punishment for rapists. These people are just so heartless, selfish and self-centred! Imagine just a few moments of uncontrolled pleasure can run someone's life just like that.
Besides the trauma of being raped and getting pregnant with an unwanted child, what if the girl contracted some sexually-transmitted diseases or AIDS due to this? Then her whole life is indeed runied.
She can never lead a normal healthy life, be in a relationship or get married. And not being able to have someone by your side to love is one of the most lonesome and depressing things to happen.
What would have been the punishment I would have suggested? Castration. You may think I am mean, heartless, cruel or what not, but in the first place, would those rapists have considered how mean or heartless or cruel they were before they did what they did?
Granted every man has needs, every man is lustful, and some much more than others. But then if all the guy want is sex, there are so many other ways to have himself satisfied. There are professional sex workers, there are girlfriends (provided she is willing), there are wives (that is the wife's duty after all), there are even girls one can pick up in a bar and have flings with.
Although I also do not approve of flings and one night stands or visiting prostitutes, these are still much better than raping someone. Why must they hurt some innocent stranger for just a few moments of hormonal release?
I feel we have to get them where they hurt, otherwise who is to know if they will go back to their old ways the moment they are released from jail? As long as their members are still active, there is no guarantee they will not do the same thing again. Afterall, it is hard for leopards to change their spots.
1 comments:
Yes to harsher sentencing! You would assume that with the woman's charter, Singaporean women are well protected by the law but our punishment for rape is so lenient.
I say, let the minimum term be 15 years and the rapist should suffer the whip every month they serve their sentence. That would remind them how painful it is for the woman!
Another crime that our laws are too lenient is causing death in traffic accidents through neglience. Imagine a 20 year old killing a man, the sole provider of his family and leaves behind a jobless widow with 3 young kids, while trying to show off his newly acquire license.
I once overheard a conversation by a group of youngster who was thinking of how best to punish or cause another party hurt... and their conclusion was to rape the family members of the other or knock him down with a car on purpose. No why would they have such evil thoughts and why would they think this way??
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