Maybe this would be a good thing to bring back in Canada.....
Bahamas child rapist to appeal 'inhumane' flogging sentence
June 18, 2007
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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - A Bahamian man who is to be flogged 10 times with a whip for raping a six-year-old girl will appeal that part of his sentence, his lawyer said Monday.
Andrew Bridgewater was sentenced to the flogging and seven years in prison for attacking the girl. He will not seek to reduce his prison sentence but should be spared corporal punishment, defence lawyer Wayne Watson said in an interview.
The whipping - from a whip made of nine, knotted cords - would come in two sessions spread over two weeks.
"Seven years was enough under law but the cat-o'-nine tails is harsh and inhumane," Watson said, noting his client has shown remorse.
Prosecutors had sought a 14-year sentence last month in addition to flogging after Bridgewater pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with the child. The girl was in hospital for more than two weeks after she was raped and left in an abandoned car last year.
Some Bahamians deplore the cat-o'-nine-tails as a legacy of slavery.
The Grand Bahama Human Rights Association has denounced it as a "a vicious, obscene and sordid invention by white slave masters" that should be abolished.
Flogging was abolished in the 1980s but legislators voted unanimously to bring it back in 1991. The punishment has since been carried out on only two occasions.
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Bahamas child rapist to appeal 'inhumane' flogging sentence
June 18, 2007
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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - A Bahamian man who is to be flogged 10 times with a whip for raping a six-year-old girl will appeal that part of his sentence, his lawyer said Monday.
Andrew Bridgewater was sentenced to the flogging and seven years in prison for attacking the girl. He will not seek to reduce his prison sentence but should be spared corporal punishment, defence lawyer Wayne Watson said in an interview.
The whipping - from a whip made of nine, knotted cords - would come in two sessions spread over two weeks.
"Seven years was enough under law but the cat-o'-nine tails is harsh and inhumane," Watson said, noting his client has shown remorse.
Prosecutors had sought a 14-year sentence last month in addition to flogging after Bridgewater pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with the child. The girl was in hospital for more than two weeks after she was raped and left in an abandoned car last year.
Some Bahamians deplore the cat-o'-nine-tails as a legacy of slavery.
The Grand Bahama Human Rights Association has denounced it as a "a vicious, obscene and sordid invention by white slave masters" that should be abolished.
Flogging was abolished in the 1980s but legislators voted unanimously to bring it back in 1991. The punishment has since been carried out on only two occasions.
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