Crime Today

Crimes are always bad. Thy always leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth. Of course, with crimes, there are different levels of brutality and consequences. But certain types of crime sickens me most. It sickens me to my core when I hear of sex related crimes, crimes perpetrated on the young and helpless, on little boys and girls, and grown females who cannot defend themselves.

Read about this incident where this taxi driver in London picks his victims up and then rapes them. So far he has perpetrated this 35 times. 35 times! I hardly even dare ask whether he used protection and/or impregnated any of them. Can you imagine the horribleness of it? The poor girl, having a child in her that was conceived by this scum, and in that way.

And this girl who was walking home in London, and at her doorstep was stabbed to death and then raped multiple times. The disgusting thing is that the man charged in court with her crimes used, as his defense, the claim that he had sex with her when he thought she was merely unconscious, and not already dead, and that fact was only impressed upon him after the act. Furthermore, he went on to claim that he was interested only in Asian women. WTF?

And the multitudes of crimes that go unreported? Especially involving tourists in foreign destinations? Some people think that these are statistics, and that chances are it won't affect them. But isn't that what everyone thinks, until it happens to them?

Closer to home, we have always heard of sex crimes, and I can already rattle off 5 from the top of my head. And these are merely the higher profile ones. And recently, this sick conduct has infiltrated playgrounds and young girls are going missing, with their bodies being found later with objects stuffed up their rectums. I had a lecturer, a very nice and pretty young lady, being a victim of an attempted rape, and when she fought back, she had a large stone smashed against her forehead. She was left mentally, physically and emotionally scarred, and has since become a recluse and has never been the same again.

If I ever lay hands on one of these perpetrators, I will make him wish he was dead.

The common thread running through these acts is that the perpetrators are never caught. In the high profile Cannie Ong's case, because of a legal technicality that the defense managed to find as a loophole, the guy may be walking free very soon from a dramatically reduced sentence. There is no conviction yet for the Mongolian woman's case. No justice. Nor is there any for Audrey Melissa, the high school girl who was brutally stabbed and raped in a tunnel while walking to school. Or the Malay lady in Hartamas who was found tied up and stabbed to death after various heinous deeds were committed on her. Or the Malay engineer who suffered a similar fate after a bus ride. And the 2 little girls who were kidnapped. And the recent cases where 2 young ladies were kidnapped in broad daylight in front of several witnesses.

The country is not safe. Crime is rampant. Law enforcement and vigilance and punishments are viewed as so poor that criminals openly scorn and disregard the law this way. Our life is really in our own hands. We cannot rely on the government or police force. Once a criminal attempts to commit a crime, physically, even a few girls will not be enough to fend off one man. Prevention as much as possible, and applying one's intelligence to be realistic and actively take one's own wellbeing into one's hands is the only way left to us, and if it means we have to cut down on our freedoms then unfortunately, that is what we must do, for if a crime does happen, regret is too late.