Ministry of Justice has amended sentencing guidelines on Monday to jail sex offenders instead of banishment after facing public outrage and criticism from rights groups who were enraged that four men who raped an under-aged girl were sentenced to two years banishment.
The mandatory prison sentencing for sex predators comes about at a time when the number of sexual crimes has increased in recent years. It is felt that evidence of such crimes that may have gone unreported in the past is now being brought to light because of public awareness.
In the international community, it has been commonly assumed that sexual disorders leading to various sexual crimes are caused by some kind of mental illness. While researchers are attempting to answer causes of perverted and sadistic behaviour that leads to heinous sexual offences, every society will need to work its own method to deal with deviant sexual behaviour and sexual offences with punishments that will include treatment of the repressed conditions.
If Maldives doesn't have the mental health experts to undertake such treatment immediately, we have to start asking the hard questions in order to find out what is going wrong with our society. In a close-knit society like Maldives with a 100 per cent Muslim population, why are we seeing gang rape of young girls?
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God question. I am also having a hard time finding the right answer for that.
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