Only seven years for raping a young boy?
August 11, 2008
I’ll take “You’re a sick, sick man who should be locked up indefinitely
” for $400, please, Bob.
Raping a young boy who disclosed the abuse while reading the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorra with his father has landed a Calgary man a seven-year prison sentence.
Provincial court Judge Sandy Hamilton yesterday said the repeat assaults inflicted on the boy by Khatab Ismail has left the victim permanently psychologically scarred.
“The victim presented as a very troubled young boy,” Hamilton said, noting he now lives in a group home and has twice attempted suicide.
There’s no way to adequately communicate how damaging — physically and psychologically — this sort of crime is. I know nothing of Mr. Ismail, not even where he is from in the world. Perhaps he’s from one of those cultures where bacha-bazi is commonplace and the norm. Even if so, over here, child molestation and rape is just plain wrong.
And we don’t punish it severely enough in Canada.
Of course, we don’t really punish much of anything severely enough. But really…seven years for multiple acts of rape? That’s it? This man will live to see the light of day again, without bars as an impediment to the view? And he still has his penis attached to his body?
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