ON Wednesday, October 3, Police Constable Orin Heyliger was granted bail

in the sum of $500,000 when he appeared at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court, accused of raping a young woman.
According to one PPP Member of Parliament, in his presentation during a debate in the House on violence against women, rapists and child molesters should be castrated.
Incest, child molestation, rape, having sex with young girls too immature to make judgement calls on their own readiness for such a huge step in their lives, should have only one remedy – castrate the males, but not as punishment. They are sick, and the same way a surgeon would excise a spleen or a rotting limb that is injurious to the total wellbeing of the individual, so, too, should the offending member be excised. If this is done, then even as eunuchs these one-time sexual predators would be able to contribute to society. Locking them away for a period of time only costs taxpayers’ dollars that could be diverted to other developmental imperatives; and they would not change, but more than likely they would seek out other victims upon their release. So solve their problems and that of their potential victims and society as a whole by showing mercy to everyone – castrate them.
What gives anyone the right to violate the body of another person? Moreso, many of these predators have multiple partners or disreputable lifestyles, so the risk of sexually transmitted disease being contracted by the victim is a very real possibility. And it is incumbent upon the guardians of society to give justice to the innocent victims, so that they could have some degree of closure to their ordeal and trauma, and to protect potential victims of these predators.
STAMP IT OUT! Too long have the innocents suffered – young girls whose reproductive systems have been destroyed, babies whose intestinal tracts have been damaged, women and children who have ineradicable psychological and emotional scars that make them dysfunctional for the rest of their lives.
These rapists are murderers. They murder the infants that will never be born to the girls who can never have babies. They murder they children whom they have vested with chronic ailments of one kind or another until they die; and, worst of all; they murder the trust and the dreams of their victims. So, castrate them! They take away infinitely precious commodities of society when they violate one member of the human family in such heinous ways, so it is only fair and just that they are deprived of the use of that offending member, infinitely precious to them, which they cannot control and which makes them predators to a society. Rather than ostracizing them, the offending member should be excised, after which they should be ordered to serve their victims all their lives in recompense for the harm they have caused.
Three females living alone – a mother and two young daughters — had their home invaded and their possessions stolen. But as if that were not enough, the perpetrator took the young girl away from her mother and raped her.
Who can imagine the horror of such an ordeal? Who can understand the feelings of the mother and sister, who were rendered helpless as the youngest member, and most likely the most loved of their family, was violated in such a horrific manner?
Young girls lured, raped and killed by persons they trust. How many stories of such incidents proliferate? Daughters raped by fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers. Can one imagine the absolute helplessness of these victims, betrayed so callously by persons who are supposed to protect them instead?
Home invasions by robbers, who steal more than money and material possessions, take lives and destroy lives in the process. Then, when they are caught, some bleeding-heart judge or magistrate raps their fingers and sends them back into society to prey on the innocents once more.
And for the perpetrators among police ranks, who are supposed to be the bastions protecting the vulnerable against perpetrators, this crime is a betrayal so heinous that they should be hung, drawn and quartered. Only such punishment will deter recurrence of these all too regular occurrences.