Criminals must feel victim’s pain

THE EDITOR: Please permit me a space in your newspaper to express my agreement that criminals should be treated as they treat their victims. To my utter disappointment, Trinidad was once a beautiful country and this is what it has come to. Criminals have no remorse towards their victims.

It is time they feel the pain they caused their victims, psychologically and physically. For years they have been doing wrong and getting away with it and if they are caught they are not heavily penalised. What about justice? Why should we wait long hours in the court rooms and nothing happens? This has to stop! Victims are human beings. If these criminals get a taste of what they do, they may consider changing their lifestyles. If you were the victim and you were terribly hurt, wouldn’t you have justice knowing the criminal is going through what you went through? Isn’t pain to them better than leaving them in jail cells, satisfying their needs with other prisoners at the expense of taxpayers?

Yes, we have hangings but that is not enough. Dying like that is very fast and painless — there is the need to feel pain, bawling in agony, wishing they had never done this. These criminals need to walk in our shoes for a moment. See how it feels to be snatched out of the blue, to be blindfolded, hands tied behind our backs, to be gagged and to be left in a deserted area and being get biscuit and water. Let them feel how we feel! I think it is time these individuals (more like animals) learn a lesson and feel what their victims feel!

K JACK
Form 5 student