YOU HAVE A CHOICE!

I was truely shock and saddened today when i read about the punishment meted out to Cpl Dave Teo regarding the offence he comitted. Yes, no doubt about it that he has comitted a very serious offence but come to think about it, at the end of the day, after knowing more about his unfortunate growing up years, can we blame him at all?

Does he deserve to be jailed for 9years and two months and receive 18 strokes of the cane on his butt? Does he really deserve to be sentence this harsh? Where is the compassion for this guy? The judge who sentence him says, "My heart hurts for you that so young a man will have to spend some of the best years of his life in prison and have to undergo so many strokes of the cane…" To this judge, stop being a hypocrite… Can you imagine, after serving this sentence, when he can finally be able to taste freedom once again, he might and will have to face trial again, this time by the military court! This guy, his future is totally ruin…. My sympathy for him. I’m truely saddened and angry by the harsh punishment meted out to him…

Where is the human being in us? Look at the circumstances. Look At his traumatic growing up years. What he need is moral and emotional support. He needs someone to talk to. Someone whom he is able to pour out all his feelings, his sufferings of all this years… Yes, he may be guilty as charge but i strongly believe in giving him a second chance. Give him time to change. Give him time to build up his confidence again. He don’t deserve the 18 strokes of the cane….

To the judge, I’m disappointed in you. You claim to be hurt for this young man but the sentence you mete out to him doesn’t show at all that you are hurt… What is to become of his future, may i ask? How is he going to reconstruct back his life when his future is already doom by your harsh punishment and maybe those of the military court! Where is your sense of compassion? Where is your heart, sir?

To Cpl Dave Teo, i hope that you’ll be strong enough to face all this obstacles and challenges facing you. Don’t easily give up hope, young man. Even though the society at large may look down on you, i just want you to know that you have my support. I hope that you’ll be a better man once this whole episode is over and be able to start over a new leaf…. My faith is in you, young man!

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