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justdesert
What’s the point if you get fine or acquittal.All these people had already been shamed in TV and newspaper and I believed many of them had lost their jobs and family as a results.It’s not easy to climb up again to reach their previous levels considering they had spend many years of hardwork non is it easy to recover the relationship strained with their families.For the gal,the Singapore law is protecting her,but public opinions condemned her and her photos and names are already splashed out all over the world.She is now more infamous than the 48 charged so far and I believed she has already been shamed already too.I don’t feel sorry for the gal though I feel it for her parents having a daughter as a whore.
Yes, I do agree that the adverse publicity have done the men, especially the high profile ones, substantial damage to their reputation.
But putting them behind bars will further compound the damage. They will have a criminal record hanging over their heads for the rest of their lives.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
One striking pattern is that as the offence becomes increasingly common in Singapore, the sentencing is seemingly much more lenient than before, although jail sentences are still meted out.
For instance, on the first post of this thread, a man was jailed for 9 months for underaged sex with a 16 year old sex worker. But in the latest case, (see below), the sentence is 8 weeks. This is a good trend, but quite unfair to those who committed the offence earlier on.
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From Breaking News, Straits Times, Aug 2nd, 2012:
A car sales consultant was jailed for eight weeks on Thursday for paid sex with an underage Vietnamese girl.
Justin Guo Zhijia, 25, admitted to paying $100 for the sexual services of the 16-year-old girl at his home at Lentor Grove in Yio Chu Kang in July last year
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