A teacher who molested a student for two and a half years, starting when the boy was 5, will perform six months of community service and pay the boy NIS 2,000 in a plea bargain reached Monday.[...]
You are right. The penalties for sexual crimes are not high enough. I find this case less striking than the case of a father who raped his daughter more than 1000 times and got away with 3 years imprisonment (in Switzerland). The maximum he could have got was 5 years.
I think that punishment for sex crimes should be cumulative: 1 rape 5 years, 2 rapes 10 years, 1000 rapes 5000 years.
You are right. The penalties for sexual crimes are not high enough. I find this case less striking than the case of a father who raped his daughter more than 1000 times and got away with 3 years imprisonment (in Switzerland). The maximum he could have got was 5 years.
ReplyDeleteI think that punishment for sex crimes should be cumulative: 1 rape 5 years, 2 rapes 10 years, 1000 rapes 5000 years.