Oz girl gang raped twice.Rapists jailed/probatin aftAG appea
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"she probably agreed to have sex with all of you"
A very interesting but sad remark from a Oz Judge.Gang raped by 5 juveniles at aged 7 and ''contracted syphilis in April 2002''.
Thanks to lenient judiciary of the Great Australia.
She was gang raped again by 9 men when she was 10 years old and contracted ''sexually transmitted diseases.''No no need go to jail.Wat a democratic and free Australia.The worst is no one make a appeal during the one month appeal period!!It took OZ AG special appeal to re trial the case.
What a @@#$%%^ system!
read the expired thread i list below.
2.Justice has been done ,at last.
u may say just because Aussie get media freedom then
this case went to re trail.
No judge is perfect.Nor no man is perfect.
But the judgement of the original judge seem far away
from public expectation.
u can read the responses of my expired thread that
most of the forumers thought some things went wrong
in the original trail.
Oz AG also called for review once he was informed of the
orginal sentences.The sentences just too little,if not cruel
to the victim.
If the case happen in SG,the Judge most likely will not make
this wrong judgement.
http://www.sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/296307
9 men released aft plead guilty gang raped aged 10
pl read the Judge's reasons for original sentences!!
2.Jail for gang rapists of 10-year-old
Tim Dick
June 13, 2008 -http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/jail-for-gang-rapists-of-10yearold/2008/06/13/1213321580120.html
Today, the Court of Appeal delivered its long-awaited judgement in an appeal over the sentences imposed by District Court judge Sarah Bradley.
The three men were sentenced to six years, one boy to three years' detention and one boy to two years' detention. The rest were sentenced to three years probation with orders to attend treatment.
Chief Justice Paul de Hersey said: "The prosecution must bear substantial responsibility for what occurred but ... the imposition of a proper sentence was ultimately the responsibility of the judge.
"The errors, and the resulting miscarriage of justice, were so serious, and the circumstances in which they occurred so extraordinary, as to warrant allowing the Attorney-General's appeals."
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Voices of Minority in Oz has been neglected.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/aurukun-justice-groups-disbelief-over-rape-case/2007/12/18/1197740273420.html
Janine Chevathun, a Aurukun councillor and member of the Justice Group, said the committee had taken Judge Bradley out on the community boat where they had explained to her over several hours the impossible levels of social dysfunction and alcohol-related crime tearing the community apart.
"I don't wish to blacken her name, but she was told what the problems were. We cannot understand her decision. It has mystified and deeply disappointed us. We want her to come here and explain why she ignored our group. We believed she was a good woman."
It is understood Judge Bradley, a regular visitor to the community in her official roles as both a magistrate and a judge, was briefed on Aurukun's spiralling crime well before she handed down her decision in the rape case on October 24. Until her controversial decision, now subject to official review and appeal, she had been held in high regard by the community.
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and your point being?
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why Oz get this kind of Judge?
Any system failure in Oz judiciary sys?
a girl of 10 liked to make love with 9 men in a short span
of time?
Just like SG get Selemat and inmates escapes?
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this world is screwed ... does not matter which country
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Originally posted by the Bear:
and your point being?
He wants to make Speaker's Corner an Aussie website
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pl read the expired thread for explanation fr DPP.
He claimed he had been instructed to tell Judge no jail required.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080613/tap-as-gen-australia-rape-outrage-79704af.html
The leniency of the sentences originally handed down sparked nationwide outrage and raised questions about the standard of justice for Aboriginal communities in the remote northeast wilderness of Cape York.
District Court Judge Sarah Bradley last year gave the three adults six-month suspended prison sentences. The six juveniles received 12-months probation with no convictions recorded against them.
Appeal Court president, Chief Justice Paul de Jersey, said Friday that Bradley had made serious errors in passing the sentences and disregarded court precedents.
"These errors were so serious as to produce a clear miscarriage of justice," de Jersey told the court.
The three adults were sentenced Friday to six years in prison. They will be eligible for parole on June 13, 2010.
Two teenagers were ordered detained in juvenile detention. One is to serve 18 months and the other a year. Four other teenagers who also pleaded guilty to the crime were given three years probation.
None of the nine convicted can be named.
The state government lodged the appeal against the leniency of the sentences despite a government prosecutor arguing against jail terms during the original sentence hearings. That prosecutor has since resigned.
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LOL, he's back on the aussie bandwagon again.
And even better, he's trying to restart an old topic.
Recommended response for everyone?
+1
Eh lionnoisy, you talk so much still haven't answered about your cloning...
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Crimes Against the Forum
CLONING!
MAKEPEACE, MAKE CLONES?
A REPORT ON ATTEMPTED ASTROTURFING AND SOCKPUPPETING BY LIONNOISY
a lion puppet
For those who wondered what happened.
Lionnoisy created a clone called "makepeace" which he used in speakers corner to further his own agenda, trying to give people the impression that there are others out there that would agree with him.
Unfortunately he did a very poor job of hiding it.
This kind of behaviour is called sockpuppeting, ie. creating a false online identity to praise, defend or create the illusion of support for one’s self, allies or company.
A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception within an Internet community. In its earliest usage, a sockpuppet was a false identity through which a member of an Internet community speaks while pretending not to, like a puppeteer manipulating a hand puppet.[1]
In current usage, the perception of the term has been extended beyond second identities of people who already post in a forum to include other uses of misleading online identities. For example, a NY Times article claims that "sock-puppeting" is defined as "the act of creating a fake online identity to praise, defend or create the illusion of support for one’s self, allies or company."[2]
The key difference between a sockpuppet and a regular pseudonym (sometimes termed an "alt") is the pretense that the puppet is a third party who is not affiliated with the puppeteer.
To "flame wars" and "phishing" we can now add "sock puppet." A sock puppet, for those still boning up, is a false identity through which a member of an Internet community speaks while pretending not to, like a puppeteer manipulating a hand puppet. Recently, a senior editor at The New Republic got in trouble for some particularly colorful sock puppetry.
When Lee Siegel began blogging for The New Republic, he found, as many others have, that Internet posters tend to be fairly outspoken — and a good number of the posters on the blog were harshly critical. An exception was ''sprezzatura,'' who regularly offered extravagant praise. After Mr. Siegel was criticized for his writing about Jon Stewart, host of ''The Daily Show,'' sprezzatura wrote: ''Siegel is brave, brilliant and wittier than Stewart will ever be. Take that, you bunch of immature, abusive sheep.'' A reader charged that sprezzatura was in fact Mr. Siegel, but sprezzatura denied it.
The reader turned out to be right. ...
After making some lame and hasty excuse about his account being hacked, lionnoisy suddenly abandoned all this threads in which him being sockpuppeting was being mentioned. Unfortunately his excuse cannot stand up to logic as he was seen responding to and talking back TO HIS OWN ACCOUNT.
This is what happened:
29th April 0932hrs a "user" called "makepeace" that had never posted before created a lionnoisy-sounding titled thread called "Oz Judge ban TV drama & interview glorify gangland wars "
Already suspisions were raised because the structure and phrasing of the title was signature of lionnoisy. The first post by this "makepeace" was as such:
Originally posted by makepeace:
Oz Supreme Judge Justice Betty King
bans TV drama serices & interviews
glorifying those in the gangland war.The bans to prevent
jurors to be affected while the trial of a murder case is in progress.
U hardly expect democratic and free country like Oz will
ban TV programmes .Right?
U wont know TV programmes on Oz gangsters
are so hot there.Right?
u wont know ganglang wars there also so frequent.Right?
1.Judge cuts down(TV) Nine's Underbelly
Milanda Rout | February 12, 2008
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23200497-7582,00.html
2.Judge bans 'crime mums' interview
Peter Gregory | April 22, 2008
Barbara Williams and Judith Moran,
the mothers of defendant Evangelos Goussis
and the widow of the murdered Lewis Moran
respectively,were interviewed.
Its damn interesting that this news was under
Entertainment section!!
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/entertainment/judge-bans-underbelly-report/2008/04/21/1208742836107.html?s_cid=rss_news
3.The Morgan family----the story of the murdered
http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/moran.family.htm
4.The story of the Boss ,Carl Williams,behind the killing
http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/carl.williams.htm
5.u can learn more by seraching Justice Betty King
in www.yahoo.com.au
6.Questions
A.Why the media want to air the interview while the trial
is still on?
B.How are the gang activities in Down Under?
C.Am i look like anti--Oz?
D.How true are the postings in 3 and 4 listed above.
i dunt expect the there are so many details about
Oz gangsters.Can any one tell me more?
Note that other then for the user name, this post is virtually indistinguishable from the countless of other lionnoisy posts we can compare it with. The excessive reliance on the media, posting of hyperlinks, using warped logic that takes issues out of their context, and most tellingly the horrible english which make typos and grammatical errors right down to what lionnoisy would EXACTLY make is exactly what you'd expect from lionnoisy.
Hence lionnoisy must have been someone disappointed because after 20 minutes still nobody bothered to reply to his post under makepeace. Hence he decided to bump his own thread.
But after a few lackluster replies, he finally decided to "talk" to makepeace
Originally posted by lionnoisy:
3.The Morgan family----the story of the murdered
http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/moran.family.htm
4.The story of the Boss ,Carl Williams,behind the killing
http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/carl.williams.htm
I cant believe there are so many killings
in the above links !!!
More excited than Holloywood movies!!
Note the bad acting, where he pretended to be "excited" and "surprised" about what he wrote himself.
Now this is the funny part, if his account was really hacked as he claimed it to be, he would certainly not be replying back to his "hacked" account so happily in such a way.
But in any case when he was exposed he made this very funny, frantic and desperate post trying to suddenly divorce himself from the actions of his sockpuppetry by claiming he was hacked. Unfortunately all a basic look at the thread will reveal what really happened, and that is nothing other then lionnoisy was caught red-handed sockpuppeting.
Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Why did u check IP and English of forumers?
i just know my acct has been hijacked and u post it!!
It seems u are faster than me?Looks so strange!!
Looks like it is a cyber crime and /or frame up.
Hv anyone(u know who i mean) hacked into my e mails and computers ?
Do i have to hire armed guards to stay outside my
pigeon hole?
I am seeking helps from ISD,CIA,FBI,MI 5 and 6,
PRC Kong Ang, etc to check who hijack my acct
and make me appearing as ''makepeace'' after
i click submit.How safe in this forum??
I will buy you Ya Kun coffee if your info can lead to
catch the criminal,
Forums owners and mods are hereby notified my formal ,written and distressing complaints to cyber crimes!!
Another paethetic, and desperate reply from him when he was cornered:
Originally posted by lionnoisy:
oh it is good.Then can help me saving time to see counsellors How to get rid of computers addicts!!bye
Those who want to see what happened can go here:
http://sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/315326
And some screencaps, so the evidence is preserved:
"mysterous" makepeace appears:
and of course his own excited and poorly acted "reply" to his own clone.
and his own desperate and feeble attempts to wriggle out of the situtation:
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How come still nobody brought to justice for this in Sg?:
This morning at about 3.40am, a young man believed to be chinese was found lying in the midddle of the road whilst I was driving towards AYE of the Merchant Road exit which is opposite Riverside Point. I saw a group of youngters gathered around a man and was thinking, gosh... what on earth is this drunk guy doing there.
I stopped my vehicle and went closer to take a look and found the man in a pool of blood and still spurting from numerous bad open wounds. I saw what appears like slash wounds on his legs, abdominal area and hands all in blood. I quickly summonsed the police and ambulance for their assistance.
Upon checking with some of the good samaritans who are mostly youngsters. They told me that this man have been set upon by a group of more than than youths believed to be malays from the Riverside Point area. Some of them were chasing some chinese youngsters in the area with Parangs, metal rods, chairs and belts.
The badly wounded victim was later conveyed to the hospital. The police were very quick in arriving promptly. But sad to say, the gang that attacked the victims were no where to be found. The road leading to the exit was also cordoned off to preserve the scene for evidence gathering.
This event led me thinking of what on earth have happened to our youngsters nowadays? Is this a social issue related to easy entry to clubs and liberal drinking. These repercussions have its causes and effects. Bringing more liability to youths and youngters who patronise drinking areas in big groups. They get more boisterous and seemed more prone to start fights then say, middle aged drinkers? (maybe 35yrs and above). -
Originally posted by noisylion:
Siggie spent millions on biopolis said to try to be a world leader in biotechnogy
but they dunt even can control somethin as tiny as a mosquito:
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SINGAPORE: A strain of dengue new to Singapore is impeding efforts to stem the spread of the mosquito-borne disease that has infected hundreds in the affluent city-state this year, a top health official said Thursday.
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said the current rise in infections, including a record 210 cases last week and one fatality, evoked memories of a 2005 epidemic that killed 25 in the tropical island-nation of 4.5 million.
"I'm quite worried about the dengue trend," Khaw told reporters on the sidelines of an infectious diseases exhibition.
Authorities said earlier this week that Singapore recorded a nearly 50 percent increase in dengue infections in the first 4-1/2 months of this year compared to the same period in 2006.
Dengue cases reported from the start of January to May 12 rose to 1,488 — up from 993 in the corresponding period last year, the Health Ministry said.
The dengue virus now predominant in Singapore is believed to be the same as in neighboring Indonesia, and is different from the main active strain in Singapore over the past few years, according to local media reports.
Those previously infected with other types of dengue are not immune, and may even face a higher risk of complications when infected with a different strain, The Straits Times newspaper said.
Health officials have been combing public housing estates in search of mosquito breeding sites. Dengue-carrying insects can breed in tiny pools of water found in flower pots, discarded bottles or cans, or old tires.
The Health Ministry said the recent spike in infections is likely due to warmer weather during this period of the year, which is conducive for breeding mosquitoes and the spread of dengue.
tink this singapore park is safe for yr kids? bcareful of the singapore dengue mosquito!
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trying to fight dengue with millions of dolloars of smoking and biopolis... still dunt can work!
wats more this is not the first time! a lot of people (for siggie country) infected and died in 2005 from dengue outbreak! but still dunt can tink of way to prevent n it happen again!
n wats more siggie told not to use hospital during outbreak! so much for world class hospital system!
Dengue Outbreak Means Sagging Fortunes for Singapore Bustlines
My adopted long-term home, Singapore, is having its worst outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever in recent memory according to an AFP article carried in Voice-of-the-State, China Daily. Don't underestimate what a big deal this is for Singapore, which invests huge amount of effort into mosquito control and which prides itself on being the one Southeast Asian nation that you would actually consider raising your children in. This is being called the biggest health crisis in Singapore since SARS. That's really saying something, because I remember SARS in Singapore, and it was a spooky and weird time. Medical facilities are being pushed to their limits, and the nation is being called upon to make the sacrifices that you would expect in times of severe hardship:By one estimate, over 100 new cases per day are now being reported, and since there is no effective vaccine against the virus, mosquito eradication is the only means of containing it.
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has gone to the extent of urging Singaporeans to postpone breast enlargement and other forms of non-critical surgery to ease the load on public hospitals in Singapore, where foreigners regularly go for sophisticated operations. -
I could only deduce from the bitterness which Lionnoisy displays that he/she must have got rejected for another PR visa to Australia again.
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A noisy lion in Australia will be out of its natural habitat, as a lion in the African plains is much quieter, and only noisy when protecting his harem, or during mating.
This noisy lion is simply noisy out of frustration for being castrated and unable to fulfill his deluded needs.
Did he attempt to make a pass at the kangaroos and got kicked ?
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besides the comments about TS..i think the news is pretty serious..judge letting go of criminals who gang rape a kid..
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Originally posted by domonkassyu:
besides the comments about TS..i think the news is pretty serious..judge letting go of criminals who gang rape a kid..
It is old news . The Court of Appeals already corrected it and gave sentences out.
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Not surprising... notice how lionnoisy tries to put a negative spin on even such news that they corrected it?
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Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:
Not surprising... notice how lionnoisy tries to put a negative spin on even such news that they corrected it?
yes they have corrected the mistakes.But why this happen in the first place?
The penalty to the rapiests in the first gang rape to the poor girl
cant deter the rapists to strike again,to the same girl.
i cant remember how many involved in the 2 gang rape.
u have to read my old postings that some rapistes
come from rich and famous families in NT.
Rapists just tell the public:What can u do with me even i get convicted?
Just short jail and probabtions.
Yes , Brisbane barrister Peter Davis SC has reviewed 71 sexual assualted cases
,incluing this case.The report has been released.
"It should be noted that thereis no evidence of any judicial misconduct by Judge Bradley or any of the other judges whose sentences were reviewed," he said.
But look at the Appeal Judge comments:
"In a case where, without compelling and articulated reasons, an adult who was 25 years of age is sentenced on the same footing as a 13-year-old boy - in terms of criminal responsibility - for raping a 10-year old girl, the lack of disparity bespeaks an error of some kind."
anyway,Justice in everybody's heart.U are the Judge.
read the news
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23861192-601,00.html
No action against Aurukun judge
Tony Koch,14 june 2008
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''military organised gang rape involving 14 young men''-Judge
For the next six hours, Miss C was subjected to multiple rapes...
''Rapist ... Mahmoud Sanoussi is due for release soon.''
oh the more i read,i fing OZ nice to rapists--
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23864124-5001021,00.html
Evil rapist back on the street
June 15, 2008 12:00am
The gang took their victim, Miss C, to a toilet block where Mohammed Skaf asked her if she liked it "Leb style'' before raping her. He left the cubicle and Sanoussi (Mahmoud) came in and raped her.
For the next six hours, Miss C was subjected to multiple rapes and death threats at three isolated locations.....
During the sentence of the Skaf gang rapists, the judge described their crimes as worse than murder.
"These cases concern one of the greatest outrages, in criminal terms, that has been perpetrated on the community in Sydney ... military organised gang rape involving 14 young men,'' Judge Michael Finnane said in 2002.
Sanoussi served part of his sentence in juvenile justice before moving to an adult prison. -
In Queensland,18 people guilty of rape not go to jail
FYI,population of QLD is 4.2 million,less than SG 4.6 m.
Imagine in SG,18 rapists need not go to Changi...
That is the time PAP losing the heart of people.
dunt blame me.All the bad news just appear in one day.
Not to mention frequent shooting in Oz big cities CBD!!
Too many,i am tired to post here.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23863224-952,00.html
June 15, 2008
Besides,
826 people convicted of rape, attempted rape, armed robbery, robbery and serious assault, not one received a maximum sentence.
well it is very interesting and terrible!!
In 2007-08, 18 rapists, 88 armed robbers and 39 people who committed brutal bashings avoided jail time despite their serious offences.
God damn it.Justice for who?For the criminals?Yes!
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Urm would you like to explain to me how a prisoner , who has links with a terrorist organisation, manage to escape from such a fine and secure facility in Singapore?
I could act like you and hammer the system but we all know that human errors do occur. Rules are made by humans and humans are not infallible.
Do you think that gang rapist will get it easy? He won't . If he get released , he might get hammered in the community. And where he is now, he probably have to watch himself carefully because prisons are a danger zone to rapists. And best of all , they are appealing against him being released.
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lionnoisy talks so much about justice, but he hasn't even said anything about the injustice that has been happening on our own doorsteps that we are not stopping?
Singapore is a destination country for women and girls trafficked for the purpose of labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
Some women from India, Thailand, the Philippines, and the People’s Republic of China who travel to Singapore voluntarily for prostitution or work are subsequently deceived or coerced into sexual servitude.
A significant number of foreign domestic workers in Singapore faces the unlawful confiscation of their travel documents, restrictions on their movement, confinement, and/or physical or sexual abuse.
Some Singaporean men travel to countries in the region for child sex tourism.
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Originally posted by noisylion:
In Singapore, many people guilty of parangs not go to jail
FYI,population of SG is 4.6 million, slightly more than QL 4.2 m.
Imagine in Oz, parangs need not go to jail...
That is the time Oz losing the heart of people.
dunt blame me.All the bad news just appear in one day.
Not to mention frequent choppings and gang attacks in SG big cities CBD!!
Too many,i am tired to post here.
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Originally posted by noisylion:
despite this being prob for many years
SG maid abuse still dunt can solve
where is the justice systems?
if this is first world country, is this losing the heart of the people?
Singapore was confronted with the horrible spectacle of the worst maid abuse case in its history.
Muawanatul Chasanah was for nine months regularly starved, whipped, punched, slapped, kicked, jabbed with sharp objects and scalded with hot water by her employer, Ng Hua Chye. She eventually died after a severe beating on Dec 2 last year.
At her death, the 19-year-old girl - who was 50 kg when she arrived in Singapore - weighed only 36 kg and had more than 200 injuries on her body. Ng was originally accused of murder but the charge was changed to manslaughter. Last week, he was sentenced to 18 years and six months in jail and six strokes of the cane. Has the matter ended there? Most people assume so. They can't be more wrong.
Ng has been found guilty, but he couldn't have carried out his deeds without the tacit approval, or at least inaction, of other parties.
Let's consider some facts:
Ng's wife and sister were present at many of the beatings and did nothing to stop him.
Foreign maids are required to go for six-monthly checks for pregnancy, VDRL and HIV. During her nine months of torture, Ms Chasanah had two check-ups. Though her physical condition and injuries clearly showed she was in deep distress, no alarm was raised by the doctors and nurses.
Going by a guidebook for employers produced by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), it has assumed that heavy punishment, along with an appeal that such action will 'undermine Singapore's effort to be a gracious society', is sufficient to check abuses.
In fact, MOM doesn't seem to believe maids could actually die from abuse in Singapore. Its guidebook laid out 11 types of abuses ranging from rape to causing bodily harm to criminal intimidation to wrongful confinement. Death was not mentioned.
Ms Chasanah may not be the first to die of abuse. There have been instances of maids jumping to their death, some of which could be linked to severe physical and psychological ill-treatment by employers.
Maids seem uninformed of their basic rights as residents of Singapore, such as protection by the police. Many maids come from a background which carries with it a natural fear that the police are working for the rich, and are reluctant to seek their protection even when the opportunity presents itself.
Concerned neighbours have become the only check against abuses for some maids. It was Ms Chasanah's bad luck that Ng's neighbours either didn't know or didn't care. A Mr Neo told the Straits Times that even if he knew, he wouldn't report to the police. 'It's not my business. He (Ng) can do what he wants, that's his problem. And anyway, God can see,' he was quoted as saying.
There's a good chance Ms Chasanah's family won't get a cent from insurance. Employers are required to buy a minimum $10,000 insurance for maids, benefiting herself or her next of kin. But this is meant only for accidents in the course of work that led to death or disability. Insurance agents told BT this probably won't apply in the case of Ms Chasanah.
So, is the matter of Ms Chasanah closed?
The answer should be obvious. Two courses of action must be pursued. The first is to see whether there are other parties to be punished for helping and abetting the wrongdoing.
This would deter others who can, but do not, help the victim. The second is to remedy the system to prevent similar abuses in the future.
And if Singapore is indeed serious about being a gracious society, there's also a third course: do something for Ms Chasanah's family. Punishment is the job of the state and all eyes will be on the public prosecutor to see whether other parties involved in Ms Chasanah's abuse and death will be charged. But this could take some time.
Meanwhile, some steps could be taken immediately to protect maids. For instance, the government can make it mandatory for doctors and nurses who conduct regular check-ups to ask specifically whether they have been hit or beaten and to identify maids in distress and report the cases to the police. Agents could also be required to make regular checks on maids placed by them. Any agent whose placements show a high number of abuses should have his licence revoked.
Such measures are, of course, not foolproof. Abuses will continue, no matter what the government does. Some maids, who owe their agents vast sums (at least to them), might be too scared to complain. But at least the government would be doing something on prevention. Given the nature of Singaporeans, this very fact should go a long way to reduce maid abuse. Singapore, it has been said, is little more than groups of people tied together by economic interest. The government is trying hard to change this impression. Ms Chasanah's case presents a perfect chance.
To show how a gracious society should behave, the government can set up a fund - perhaps draw upon the half-a-billion dollars of maid levies it collects every year - to compensate abused maids and their families. It need not be a large sum, as abuse cases are not common. But at least victims, such as the family of Ms Chasanah, now deprived of a daughter and a breadwinner, will be able to get something out of the tragedy.
After all, Singapore has failed Ms Chasanah. Isn't it only right, now, for the country to give something back to her loved ones, over and above punishing her tormentor?
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Hi ST,
some 40 million passengers passing thro SG airports annually.
How can SG screen every one?
read today ST statement fr MHA
SINGAPORE still falls short of international standards to fight human trafficking, despite recently amending the Penal Code so those who sexually exploit minors overseas - as well as child-sex tour organisers and promoters - can be jailed. Based on the US State Department's annual Trafficking In Persons Report released recently, Singapore is among 70 nations placed in 'Tier 2', alongside countries like Cambodia and Thailand
When the windows open,some flies will come in.
Do u think we close alll the windows?
