September 27, 2012
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R.I.P Jill Meagher
This morning I read the news of the grim discovery of Melbourne's missing woman- Jill Meagher's body. It was buried in the outskirts of outer Melbourne.
She had been raped then murdered. This makes me sick to the stomach. The worst kind of torture.
What makes it even more terrible was that she was less than 1km home (like 700 metres away), and yes, it was 1.30am when she walked home but what kind of society are we living in if a person can't even walk that kind of distance home without the thought of being raped and buried 30cm underground?
I mean, she would have thought her local area to be safe, I mean if not, she wouldn't have said no to a colleague's request to walk her home. In hindsight, that would have probably saved her life. But hindsights a very good thing-always after the fact. I feel sorry for the colleague who didn't get to walk her home because that person is going to live their life in regret thinking "i should have pushed her harder to walk her home, i should have done something different" but really, you can't blame yourself. You can't change back time, what's happened has happened.
My heart goes out to her family-her husband, her parents,brother, cousins, in-laws for now having to come to terms with this awful tragedy. I dont know how you deal with a loved one's murder but to also know that in her final hours of being abducted, she was raped then murdered. To me, that's just horrendous, personally I'd want to be torturing the bastard myself.
Australia has REALLY soft laws when it comes to criminals like this, the death penalty would never do this man justice, although he deserves to die, dying would be such an easy way out for him. I wish we had laws to castrate the man in a slow like manner (yeah I'm all for torture) and then maybe hang him. We hardly ever send our criminals to LIFE in prison and when they do go to prison, their lives are somewhat more CUSHIER than people living in the real world. What's the point? It costs taxpayers money MORE money to incacerate these assholes and they live squishy lives, sure they don't get to roam around and be FREE but they get a LOT of facilities inside these jails. If the jails weren't so "great", and were like the hells of the earth- like the how awful they are in some Asian countries then spending any time in JAIL would be REAL justice. It's like -you wish you never committed the crime in the first place and you wish you could die somehow but you can't, yet you live in such awful circumstances.
But nonetheless, as we live in a democratic society and there is no death penalty/torture... the best sentence this family can get on such a vile criminal (i dont care if it's a one time act, ONCE is enough already.. how many more times does a man need to commit these crimes against woman before they get serious?) is LIFE. anything but LIFE is NOT a fair sentence to the family, her friends, her colleagues and to the people of Melbourne- who have been captured by this news story since last week (when she went missing and we had hoped that she would have been found safe and sound)
This vile creature-that we call "a man", has sentenced her Jill Meagher's family+friends to a life sentence, they too have to live with the horrid details of her last final hours of rape and murder. Therefore, he too, should spend the rest of his disgusting life in a cell remembering the awful thing he did. I don't care how repentent he is. The fact of the matter is that he's ruined the life of ONE family and instilled fear into every female out there living in melbourne.
I also hope when he goes to jail that he gets RAPED like a dog on heat because he, too can feel the awful pain that Jill had to feel.
I will never personally walk any street alone after dark.
