Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Barbarity

Today's news about the abject cruelty and barbarity of the atrocity committed on yet another maid by a Singaporean family really takes the cake! The lengths that some Singaporeans will go to to inflict pain and suffering on others really makes me wonder if we have any sense of humanity at all in this country. Siblings who, with cruel deliberation wrenched the teeth out of their Indonesian maid's mouth with a pair of pliers. One wonders at the sociopathic tendencies of the General Public as more and more of the incidents are highlighted in the press.
The punishment for this completely callous act should fit the crime. Is 20 months in prison a sufficient deterrent? Will the offenders be caned? They certainly should be! If we can inflict caning on overstayers and vandals....surely barbarians such as these deserve far worse?

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