Bahamas: Crime and Punishment  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

Sidney Sweeting at WeblogBahamas.com is astonished at the lenient sentence imposed in the disturbing case of sexual abuse of a six-year-old girl: “If the Attorney General is successful in changing the sentence…perhaps that could be a start for the courts to send a message, with the help of Parliament, that there will be punishments to fit the horrific crimes that are destroying our country.”