There was a horrific rape of five siblings in Jamaica

[malaise]

- three young adult women, two teenagers and an eight year old - they lived with their dad but he was not at home when it happened..
The eight year old needed emergency surgery. The criminals were caught by people in the community and there is a gross photo circulating across Jamaica of the one who raped the child - a headless corpse.

I hate rape and I would have thrown them all in prison for life but jungle justice eventually destroys the rule of law.

What do you folks think. I won't post the photo but the curious can view it on FB or several other places.
I don't know which was worse - the anger we all felt after the rape of the women and children or that headless body.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120927/lead/lead3.html

[snooper2]

1. feed the corpse to some pigs, at least they will get a use out of it..

Billions of humans on this planet...

The sick ones don't need to be kept around

[enlightenment]

2. As much as I sympathize with the rage that the community felt

I have to agree that there is a very fine line between savagery and civilization. The laws that we have adopted are there as much to preserve that thin barrier as they are to protect the innocent and mete out justice to the guilty.

Is the justice system in Jamaica sufficient to deal with this sort of crime, malaise, or is there some sense amongst the citizens that it is so impotent that they need to take justice into their own hands?

[malaise]

3. Clearly the system is overloaded but there is also overload of

ignorance, vengeance and old testament justice often promoted by snake oil sellers of BS posing as pastors.

[spanone]

4. tragic. every way possible.

i was raised that two wrongs don't make a right

[progressoid]

5. I'd like to think that I would take the high road but

If that had been my eight year old daughter... I don't know.

[loli phabay]

6. i do know. if it was my daughter then beheading would be an easy out for him

Not ashamed to admit that i would get vengeance and make sure no one elses daughter suffered.

[shanti]

7. the law of the machete

one man did this to all of them?

[malaise]

10. Two men n/t

[lonestarnot]

11. What happened to the other power seeker/controller?

[malaise]

13. Don't know

The photo of the alleged other rapist's headless body in not in the mainstream press and they haven't reported it so I'll check their reports in the morning.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Where justice has a pattern of selectivity, don't expect people to sit around and wait for it

to work.

[WinkyDink]

9. I'm not feelin' it for the child-rapist. And BTW: "anger" isn't sufficient; try "rage" or "fury."

[riderinthestorm]

12. There are no good answers here.

Those poor people.... just awful.

[Barack_America]

14. Don't fuck with kids.

It brings out a rage in others that reason and rule of law can't always contain. It's not as if these civilians had a sit down and decided on murder, it just happened.

I have not a doubt in my mind that I could kill someone who harmed my child. In the spur of the moment I would do it without hesitation.

[Shitty Mitty]

15. I see nothing wrong with the punishment

.

[Raine]

16. My anger is all for the victims and all my sympathy too. As for the criminals

I wouldn't have taken the law into my hands but I don't live there and I don't know how their system of justice plays out.