littleblonde
24-Aug-01, 08:05pm
I know this has nothing to do with the dance music scene but it is an issue that really gets to me...
Don't know how many of you read the paper today or have seen the news over the last few days, but you may have heard about a case in which a group of males (two brothers and another have been sentenced) gang raped two sixteen year old guys at knifepoint.
These sentences that have been passed on these people is the most abhorrent attempt to find justice that I have seen for a long while. Someone commented that the victims had been "let down" by the court system. Let down would have to be the biggest understatement of the century. The sentences passed on these youths do little less than condone the act that has taken place upon these girls.
Rape is a crime that in many ways is harsher than murder. Being raped by one person alone is enough to leave someone traumatised for the rest of their lives, even with years of counselling. The person will be extremely lucky to ever have a normal sexual relationship again. Think of this trauma being multiplied as you are violated by one person, then another person, then another person and so on at knifepoint. I know this isn't an attractive picture and most of you may squirm at the thought as you take five minutes to read this thread. Try to imagine the fact that these girls have to live not only with the thought but the knowledge and memory of physical and mental violation for the rest of their lives.
Rape is a crime that should receive a much harsher punishment. Why are police imprisoning small time drug dealers for long periods of time when criminals like this get little more than a slap on the back of the wrist?? There is something wronf with our judicial system. Gang rape is a crime that should get a life sentence with no chance of parole. If you sentence people who are committing these haneous crimes so lightly, is it any wonder that people who have been raped are not speaking out and putting the people who did it behind bars. What's the point?? You put them behind bars for six years and they come out more bitter and jaded, and one's who start their criminal career at such a young age so violently are sure to hone their skills in prison and commit even more ghastly crimes when they are let out. These women have been mocked by our court system. The punishments of the males are a disgrace to our country and to human rights.
Rapists aren't looked kindly upon by other prisoners, and if harsher punishments are not handed down all I can say is that I hope these boys experience first hand the trauma that they have put these women through. I am not a violent person but this absolutely disgusts me.
peace :blush: lb
Don't know how many of you read the paper today or have seen the news over the last few days, but you may have heard about a case in which a group of males (two brothers and another have been sentenced) gang raped two sixteen year old guys at knifepoint.
These sentences that have been passed on these people is the most abhorrent attempt to find justice that I have seen for a long while. Someone commented that the victims had been "let down" by the court system. Let down would have to be the biggest understatement of the century. The sentences passed on these youths do little less than condone the act that has taken place upon these girls.
Rape is a crime that in many ways is harsher than murder. Being raped by one person alone is enough to leave someone traumatised for the rest of their lives, even with years of counselling. The person will be extremely lucky to ever have a normal sexual relationship again. Think of this trauma being multiplied as you are violated by one person, then another person, then another person and so on at knifepoint. I know this isn't an attractive picture and most of you may squirm at the thought as you take five minutes to read this thread. Try to imagine the fact that these girls have to live not only with the thought but the knowledge and memory of physical and mental violation for the rest of their lives.
Rape is a crime that should receive a much harsher punishment. Why are police imprisoning small time drug dealers for long periods of time when criminals like this get little more than a slap on the back of the wrist?? There is something wronf with our judicial system. Gang rape is a crime that should get a life sentence with no chance of parole. If you sentence people who are committing these haneous crimes so lightly, is it any wonder that people who have been raped are not speaking out and putting the people who did it behind bars. What's the point?? You put them behind bars for six years and they come out more bitter and jaded, and one's who start their criminal career at such a young age so violently are sure to hone their skills in prison and commit even more ghastly crimes when they are let out. These women have been mocked by our court system. The punishments of the males are a disgrace to our country and to human rights.
Rapists aren't looked kindly upon by other prisoners, and if harsher punishments are not handed down all I can say is that I hope these boys experience first hand the trauma that they have put these women through. I am not a violent person but this absolutely disgusts me.
peace :blush: lb