Hang your heads in shame, Listowel.
A woman is found semi-conscious alongside a skip in the town centre car park in Listowel in the early hours of the morning with a man “crouching over her”. She is naked from the waist down, and her jeans and underwear have been removed. She has extensive bruises and scratching throughout her body.
CCTV footage shows a man carrying the woman to the skip area.
The woman is shunned in her home town.
And what does the man get?
He gets a unanimous guilty verdict.
He gets a character reference from the local parish priest.
He gets 50 people, mostly middle-aged and elderly men, queueing past the press box to shake his hand and hug him when he is brought up for sentencing.
He gets declarations of loyalty from his fiancee.
And he gets a seven-year sentence for the sexual assault.
What kind of a country am I living in where a convicted sexual offender is heaped with praise?
Here’s a picture of him. You make up your own mind.
Tam
23. December 2009 | 18:49 hcome ON Carole, you lived in SA for how many years - this man would walk too… they get away with so much worse - i read in the paper today - girl of 3 raped by 5, 6 and 7 year old boys… what is THIS place coming to???!!!