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A 17-year old girl led police to the man who confined and raped her, from whom she had narrowly escaped just after midnight Sunday.

A teen is recovering from multiple injuries, including broken bones, after being beaten and raped in a downtown apartment early Sunday.

Cops said the 17-year-old was assaulted just after midnight and, after escaping her attacker’s house, was instrumental in helping police collar a suspect.

Charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement and aggravated assault is 28-year-old Abdikarim Mohamed Firin.

We don’t lock up sex offenders in Canada for nearly long enough anyhow, and I do tend to agree with my wife regarding what an appropriate punishment might be for those who sexually violate another person. But then, she and I have a somewhat older mentality about that issue, and about sex in general, and tend to view it as a major responsibility with which we — individual humans — have been entrusted. We abuse our sexuality, and that of others, at our extreme peril.

Use a car in an abusive, harmful manner, and your right to drive will be revoked by the government. Perhaps it is brutal of me to say so, but I submit that if one mis-uses one’s sexual faculties, one ought to lose the use of those sexual faculties entirely. It is probably too much to hope that Abdikarim Mohamed will be deprived of his manhood in such a manner, let alone that he will be incarcerated for a length of time appropriate to the crime he has committed, however.

But it’s that middle name that keeps running through my mind. Having seen permutations on the same name in association with a variety of other crimes, many of an horrific nature, in recent years, I cannot help but wonder if this was perhaps an occasion of what I choose to term “uncovered meat syndrome” in action?

At any rate, I think a note of praise should be sounded for this young woman’s courage and determination, which was such that she was able to lead police back to her attacker after escaping with her life — even in the face of broken bones, and in the aftermath of what was almost certainly a brutal attack indeed, she was able to keep her head and bring the police around to see this savage “man” (I use the term very loosely) brought to justice.

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