Criminal
Nov. 7, 2013
The horticulture of rape
A Kenyan court recently sentenced several gang rapists to cut the grass at the local police station. I wish I could say this sentence is unique.
Julie L. Kessler
PO Box 1582
Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582
Phone: (310) 403-0009
Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com
George Washington Univ Law School
Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com
On Halloween over 300 demonstrators took to the streets of Nairobi after a Kenyan court handed down its sentence of the half-dozen men who gang raped a 16-year-old girl on her way home from her grandfather's funeral, then left her for dead in a pit latrine. The court ordered the convicted rapists not to a one-year, five-year or 10-year sentence for this unconscionable and heinous crime. No, the court in its infinite wisdom instead condemned the defendants to cut the grass at the local po...
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