Shackle the schoolboy rapists

THE EDITOR, Madam:

AS REGARDS the schoolboy rapists, those savages should be found and shackled, left without their pants! Let them feel the shame and pain and psychic dissonance which their victim, a mere schoolgirl, must still face, as she tries to put her life in balance.

Something has to happen to deter those who feel it is their right to totally abuse others, to disrupt other people’s lives. Furthermore, which school teaches treachery and total disrespect? Why would the adults in a school refuse to stir, after a girl has been defiled and needs them to quickly interject?

Truthfully, the school should not be made to conduct ‘business as usual’. After the COVID-19 pandemic has retreated, or, is somehow controlled, thorough investigations must be done. The law must take control!

Those schoolboy rapists must be aligned with, or, attached to families. Checks must be made with their ‘caregivers’, since they might have woefully neglected their duties.

Collectively, those who value others’ human rights and, in fact, respect themselves, must stand up and move to stem this rape culture all around, specifically in the schools. Brutish boys, if they are not ‘dismantled’ or dismissed through their own wilful acts, will turn into horrid men. Think about the evolution of the three schoolboy rapists then.

PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT

Practice makes perfect. They are likely to have raped before. If they get out of their predicament now, it is highly probable that they will continue to disrupt with their penises.

The time has come to flush them out. Since flogging is barbaric, since hanging is out for even those who rape then kill, something drastic must be done to stall those warped minds, in the interim. There is need to build more cages to put them in. Then allow them many years to reflect upon all the souls they would have sullied, all the dreams they would have killed.

To those in charge – the crime of rape must be placed alongside murder, in terms of its gravity. Rape victims have rights. The society can no longer choose to overlook the phallic rage – the penile bullying!

ERICA BROWN MARRIOTT