We have devils among us

YESTERDAY’S story headlined — “22 years for raping daughters” — in which a Kenzamba man who raped his two minor daughters was sentenced to 28 years in jail, made sad reading.

This is a whole 41-year- old man who does something so gory to his own flesh and blood.

That is downright diabolic! To leave all the adult women — many of whom are desperate for men and some of whom even prostitute for a living — and abuse your own daughters, as young as 12-years- old, is to become the Devil himself.

Such men do not deserve to be in a society full of women and young girls. Jail is their deserving habitat.

With the increase in cases of statutory rape being dealt with every day by the courts, it may be necessary for the justice system to be sterner on these criminals.

Almost always, men who are found guilty of having sexual intercourse with minors are sentenced to community service or suspended jail sentences and they never get to spend a night in jail.

It is a good thing the justice system was not that lenient on the case in question.

Many sick men have probably seen how lenient the judgments are on statutory rapists that they have gone to abuse young girls ready to perform community service, if caught.

It is high time something is done to put an end to statutory rape and the abuse of young girls. There should be no room to ask questions like whether or not the minor consented or whether they were in love with a perpetrator.

Any adult who has a love relationship with a minor is already committing a crime.

And when they go on to have sexual intercourse with that young person then they deserve to be jailed.

If that young person is their own daughter or relative they are supposed to be taking care of, then they deserve to rot in jail.

Twenty eight years is nothing for a man who is that heartless, that barbaric, that savage on his own blood.

How does someone deflower his own little girl?

How do men who commit similar acts get away with community service.

If stealing electricity cables gets a mandatory 10 years in jail, what about sexually assaulting a little girl?

If being caught in possession of a pangolin attracts a mandatory nine-year jail sentence, what about being guilty of forcing a minor into sex.

Breaking their virginity, exposing them to STIs like HIV and sometimes impregnating them?

Should such devils walk? Do they deserve to wake up and breathe the same air as other normal people? Should they be given any leniency?