Do you support imposing stiffer penalties for the sexual exploitation of children?
Over five hundred persons responded to our question on the issue of parole for inmates who have committed violent crimes. Most persons thought they should not qualify for parole given the rising crime wave. This is one of the issues that will be discussed this coming Thursday on Open Your Eyes so stay tuned. Turning to the question for today; the Criminal Code punishes the crime of carnal knowledge of a child or girl under sixteen years with imprisonment of twelve years to life if the female child is under the age of fourteen years, or five to ten years if the girl is above the age of fourteen years but under the age of sixteen. Our question for today is: Do you support imposing stiffer penalties for the sexual exploitation of children? Send your comments your responses using your SMART phones to 8668 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
I wish I could vote a million times, and that it would cause the tougher penalties to be realized.
I do not think that any thing short of castration is enough for such a heinus crime and with the introduction of such rightful punishment, it might give some of the other criminals some food for tought.
I agree there should be stiffer penalties for this sort of crime but can anyone answer me this…why is it that people who commit any form of child sexual exploitation spending more time in jail than those people who are found guilty of a much more harsh crime such as murder? It doesn’t make any sense to me. All acts of crime should be punished justly and accordingly and child sexual exploitation should be dealt with very harshly indeed but it seems as though in today’s world, murder has become a petty crme and isn’t so much a serious crime as it was once before.
I belive that all murderers, and sex preditator should he hanged or given live without parole. lock them up and throw away the key
Hellz Yeah,
That is y it continues to be an issue. evry week u hear about sum1 molesting or sexually exploiting children and they got a slap on the risk talkin gbout “since it is a 1st offense.” That is not right, these people need to be seriously punished as they knw wat they are doing and just hope they dont get caught. I tink these people should be given a stiffer penalty as it is a serious crime and these “idiots” for the lack of a better word just laugh as they knw shud they got caught they will just walk away. LOCK THEM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!!!!!
I do belive that there should be stiffer penalties for sex preditors. They are distroying kids mind and physical beign when the mess with these kids. There is a case pending at the moment for a guy who had sex with both his kids. have u ever heard of someone going to supreme court to adjourn his case with out a lawyer?
Then these kids mother needs to get out of that relationship or she is as guilty as her fiance.
I just hope that Government officials will also be subjected to this law if implimented.
everybody deserves a second chance!! ppl can change!!!! all they need is the love and acceptance from the public with forgiveness!!! remove the stigma’s!!! lets look at each other as one!!!