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Rapists Above 50 Years Old Should Not Be Spared Caning, Says President Halimah Yacob
Channel News Asia ^ | 19 Dec 2022 | Chew Hui Min

Posted on 12/19/2022 2:54:55 PM PST by nickcarraway

SINGAPORE: President Halimah Yacob on Monday (Dec 19) suggested that rapists aged 50 or older should not be spared caning, in a Facebook post expressing her dismay at recent cases of children being raped in their own homes.

Under Singapore's Penal Code, a convicted rapist can be jailed up to 20 years and fined or caned.

Those 50 years old and above cannot be sentenced to caning, but can be imprisoned longer in lieu of corporal punishment.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elderly; rape; singapore

1 posted on 12/19/2022 2:54:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Democrats aren’t going to like that


2 posted on 12/19/2022 2:58:52 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: nickcarraway

I am well over 50, and would take the caning over a longer prison sentence. I hope I would be contrite, and offer my suffering as partial justice as well as being a deterrent.


3 posted on 12/19/2022 3:00:35 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: nickcarraway

Let’s go Brandon!


4 posted on 12/19/2022 3:04:08 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Dr. Sivana

“would take the caning over a longer prison sentence.”

At some point, I think the caning will kill you.


5 posted on 12/19/2022 3:05:33 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: nickcarraway

Here they let them go to do it again unless they make the mistake of doing it to a rat politicians family


6 posted on 12/19/2022 3:07:43 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: alternatives?

I don’t think caning is particularly harsh. Painful, yes, but it’s not like Roman whips with pieces of glass and metal and so on ripping your flesh apart. I think I’d take the pain over the long sentence myself.


7 posted on 12/19/2022 3:13:02 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: nickcarraway

should not be spared caning? They should be given what any rapist should get!
A UNICH life.


8 posted on 12/19/2022 3:14:23 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: nickcarraway

At little surgery is required, preferably with a rusty knife.


9 posted on 12/19/2022 3:16:40 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: nickcarraway

I haven’t dated anyone over 50, but I keep the caning t0 20-somethings. It loses its appeal as they creep past 30.


10 posted on 12/19/2022 3:17:22 PM PST by PatriotarchyQ
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To: TribalPrincess2U

I’m slow. You beat me by 17 seconds.


11 posted on 12/19/2022 3:17:44 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ronnie raygun

Elite ‘extremist politicians’.


12 posted on 12/19/2022 3:18:04 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

“The blows are applied with the full force of the jailer’s arm. When the rattan hits the bare buttocks, the skin disintegrates, leaving a white line and then a flow of blood.” (Singapore Bar Association report)

“I [...] saw blood at the fourth stroke. The prisoner slumped over in evident terrible pain. The caning stopped” (”Caning — the most dreaded punishment”, The Straits Times, 7 September 1974).

“The skin at the point of contact is usually split open and, after three strokes, the buttocks will be covered in blood.” (Singapore Director of Prisons, September 1974)


13 posted on 12/19/2022 3:27:51 PM PST by brianl703
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To: brianl703

OK, if that’s the same method I stand corrected.


14 posted on 12/19/2022 3:39:55 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Far as I know they only do it one way.


15 posted on 12/19/2022 4:01:52 PM PST by brianl703
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Hey, rapist! We,re gonna give you a new operating system - Eunuchs!


16 posted on 12/19/2022 4:07:28 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Exactly.


17 posted on 12/19/2022 4:48:25 PM PST by dragonblustar (If you watch porn then you are a pedophile and a supporter of rape. Repent and be saved! )
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