"It's a very, very mad world, mad world" - Tears for Fears
I know what you're thinking...Samoa- paradise, sun, surf, friendly people...a world away from the madness of crime and deviancy which the nightly news in the western world brings...
Below are edited excerpts from today's paper...just 1 day...
A 19 year-old man who pleaded guilty to a dozen counts of sexual intercourse with a young girl, has been sent to prison for two and a half years. The victim was 12 years old at the time of the offending
...30 months for repeatedly raping a 12 year old
A former teacher accused of having sexual intercourse with a school girl has been jailed for three months…“If you do not comply with what I want, I will surely get mad at you,” the defendant told the victim.
...3 months for raping a 16 year old schoolgirl- and threatening her in ye olde English
Chong Nee pleaded guilty of two counts of burglary, two of theft and two counts of escaping from prison. His Honour ordered that he be convicted and serve 15 months... His Honour warned the defendant that should he reconsider committing such offences again, next time if he breaks into another property someone could possibly shoot at him
...15 months and able to be shot at- for burglary and having a name that sounds like a sporting injury
A mother of four has been jailed for four years and eight months for stealing more than $200,000 from her employer…after the General Manager had signed the cheque and it was returned to the accused, the accused would use a “white out” to delete the name of the agency to whom the cheque was made out and write the word “cash” over the ‘white out’
...4 years for 109 separate counts of "cunning use of liquid paper"
...and 3 machete attacks in a week on Savaii
A young girl and her mother screamed for help while her grandfather was being savagely attacked by an angry villager using a machete…the incident at Falealupo was one of three incidents involving the use of the machete in Savai’i last week...
...oh and teenagers- well they're pretty much the same
The 14-year-old went back to their home and started playing with his mother’s mobile phone. His mother told him off...the 14-year-old from the village of Sauano Fagaloa has become the latest victim of suicide in Samoa.
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