For those interested in knowing what happened to Michael Fay
after Singapore,
Source :
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/bigger-picture/staticslideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=8949504&imageindex=9
Michael Fay
Then: "Punishment of four lashes on the bare
buttocks with a rattan cane," as The New York Times put it in 1994,
hit Michael Fay, an 18-year-old American student living in
Singapore. The city-state flogged Fay after he pleaded guilty (he
later proclaimed his innocence) to spraying graffiti on cars and
stealing road signs. He was jailed for four months and sentenced to
six lashes, which was reduced to four following clemency pleas from
President Clinton.
Now: Fay, who was living in Singapore with his
mother and stepfather, moved to his dad's in Ohio. He shared the
state of his tush with Newsweek: "Now on one side there are brown
blotches, about 2 inches in diameter, where the flesh was torn. On
the other side are four straight lines." According to The Christian
Science Monitor, Fay has bounced between Ohio and Florida. He
battled a drug habit, worked at Universal Studios, enrolled in
college and last made news for a marijuana arrest in 1998. (A
current photograph of Fay was not available.)
i really think that caning is excessive and even unnecessary for
vandalism. As no one is being threatened or hurt physically, fine
and imprisonment should suffice. i also think that teenagers
shouldn't be tried like adults as they aren't adults yet. We all
know that adolescence can be a trying time for teenagers. They are
unable to handle their emotions and behaviour properly. We should
give them more leeway when they make mistakes and help them adjust
to adulthood. Harsh punishment could embitter them and cause them
to view the world with hostility. They would then become
ill-adjusted and could continue to cause harm to themselves as well
as others in the future. It is very likely that Micheal Fay has
been scarred by the divorce of his parents as well as the caning
here as he has no one to guide him. To me he is a pitiful soul!
