In reply to Bruce Hooker:
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> He said "horrific child abuse happens everywhere" in his opening remark, which is a way of reducing the impact of the report. It is also probaly untrue, I'm sure there are plenty of places where fathers don't rape their own 5 year old daughters by all the possible orifices then torture them to death and then are let off after a short bit of prison and a fine... I defy you to come up with other examples which are so bad, in fact.
Horrific child abuse happen everywhere, possibly not with such lenient sentences upon being discovered, but it's a constant in human nature, like rape and murder, and altruism and the positives as well, of that i'm certain. In Turkey a girl was buried while still alive for being interested in an unnnaproved of man, she was in her teens, but they found soil in her lungs, while in Sheffield a dad kept moving his family of daughter around sheffield and the surrounding areas to avoid detection while sexually abusing them throughout thier lives.
> He was "a religious scholar who is also a regular guest on Islamic television networks", and the legal situation "is based on national laws that a father cannot be executed for murdering his children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives,"
Which is a shocking state of affairs.
> Come on Tim, with Toby if you need help, give us a dozen similar cases in other countries to show this is commonplace.... in fact just find one other.
I don't have the time, or really the inclination either to be fair. While I don't know of similar cases, I do think it can be taken for granted than horrific child abuse does happen around the whole world, the same kind of legal consequences happening i'm less sure, I would think that the nature of these crimes means they're not widely talked about.
See me as mitigating this, or whatever you like, that's upto you, but i've honestly got better things to do, like applying for a place on an apprenticeship.