Courageous woman stops vigilante beating
The Bajan Reporter has the story including the name of the 48 year old man charged with rape. At the time the perpetrator was held by the crowd, the rumour was the rape victim was an 11 year old girl. (See Bajan Reporter story BREAKING NEWS – Alleged Perpetrator in Wellington Street Vigilante Attack in Bridgetown has been charged with Rape)
What about the Vigilantes?
As we said in our own article Barbados citizens beat alleged child molester…
“Now what are the police going to do?
The video and photos show clear facial views of many of the people assaulting the suspect. Some look like they are taking real pleasure in delivering the pain. Are the police going to track them down and charge them?
If there is to be rule of law and no repeat of this the next time, the police should do exactly that.”
Head on over to The Bajan Reporter for the accused’s name and other details as they become available.
Can’t help but rub it in… we love it when the blogs scoop the tired old news media!
Barbados Free Press 
This is the way I see it. No man has the right to maliciously seduce and or rape anyone, male or female, minor or adult. However (and I speak under correction), if a man rapes a minor he gets less jail time than if he rapes an adult. Now how sick is that. You take away a childs innocense, ‘ruin her life” so to speak nd he gets out of prison say in 4-7 years, maybe less? Come on people…..God made WOMAN for man, true? But nowhere in the bible does it say CHILD for man. People stamp out the devil…he is a liar. Stop letting the evil take over us, this country. By law he has rights, I give you that. But if more people got what he got maybe some of the other paedophiles would think twice.
Today is September 23, 2010
Verse of the Day — Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who enact evil statutes, and to those who constantly record unjust decisions . . .
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
God will one day judge the judges.
MINI BIBLE STUDY FOR THE DAY
It seems doubtful that the judges and legislators who make the laws of our land understand that they will one day answer to a righteous judge for the work that they do. But they will–every knee will bow (Phil 2:10). And God expects that the laws we live under will not only be fair, but will protect the helpless and the weak among us. In Isaiah’s time, just like today, the unrighteous designed the laws:
Isa. 10:2 “So as to deprive the needy of justice, and rob the poor of My people of their rights, in order that widows may be their spoil, and that they may plunder the orphans.”
And the warning to that day’s “politicians” is severe:
Isa. 10:3 “Now what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth?”
Pray for our leaders to enact God-centered laws!
It is a joke anyhow.
All his lawyers have to do is delay the case for 7 years and hope that it will be dismissed, as was a similar case in the paper during the past week.
LOVE all the bible talk! LOL
what wud we do without it to guide us?
we have no brain or conscience of our own to figure out right from wrong.
um the police need to have a report to ‘track down’ people and charge them.
Who is filing the complaint? Surely not that man.
No complaint. No investigation. No track down… please post with some sense Bourne…. seriously.
I think you people should to law classes, help you better understand the system.
Hi Sayed,
Using the old “nobody complained so no work for the police” excuse again?
That’s what we LOVE about the RBPF: the dedication to public order and preventing crime through pro-active attitudes and tactics. I guess it never occurred to you as a police officer that maybe the police should commence an investigation based on public interest and the crimes seen in the video. They could and should identify those persons doing the assault and charge them based on the video, then subpoena the victim and other identified witnesses in the video to court.
The reason this should be done is to prevent a similar incident in the future that might end badly. There is a public interest in doing this.
Too bad you are so handcuffed in your thinking. Next you’ll be giving your excuses again why the police didn’t enter a gated community for four days to answer a “woman assaulted” call. I understand “how the system is” and I understand that it became that way because police officers like you would not uphold the law and stand fast against those who put a political layer on the law.
That’s why you and your fellow police officers stood with your dicks in your hands doing nothing for four days instead of busting into the gated subdivision to do your duty and enforce the law. The police either didn’t know the law or they had no courage to enforce it. Either way they entire lot should have been fired especially the supervisors who sucked on their thumbs for four days.
My info came directly from RBPF and I quote them directly Sayed, so look to thine own mote…
There are no high flyers in this case so delay it for 7 years will not happen. Also, the judicial system in this country is under pressure. Many Barbadians have lost confidence in the process and are very sceptical and uncertain about the integrity of lawyers. The government will be forced to make some drastic changes and the first thing they will need to do is lock away crooked lawyers for stealing and for manipulating the system.
Hi Sayed,
Using the old “nobody complained so no work for the police” excuse again?
Without a complaint, there cannot exist a court case, it’s not laziness, it’s fact. Police cannot charge people on your behalf if you do not complain.
As for video evidence, it is not admissible in court. Only pictures are. So again, there is no evidence. You see you are the perfect example, of someone who talks because they can, you know nothing of law, due process, laws of evidence etc, and you just think the police can up and do something. Every action the police take is based on legislation.
As for being handcuffed in thinking, again I have shown you, it is not the case. You might be able to summons a witness to court, but summonsing and unwilling witness to court will get you know where, when they come to court and say they have nothing to say. Again no evidence to prosecute anyone in that video.
Don’t blame me for nepotism and partisan politics in Barbados which protects certain people. That existed long before I was born and will exist long after I am dead.
Police will never be able to touch anyone ‘connected’ in Barbados. Unless they did something drastic out in public, and sometimes not even then.
You want a police officer to barge into the Williams’ home and then get victimized by his superiors, never promoted, or out of a job and his own family has to suffer because of politics?
Please…again you need to argue with facts and law, not emotion and heart. Because emotion and heart aren’t admissible in a court of law.
As for your sources Bourne, if they told you about the police investigating, I am sure as a police officer they could investigate too, so tell them to start one.
Sayed,
Are you saying that the police cannot even start an investigation without a complaint? On what basis do you say that video is not admissible in court in Barbados? And even if the video wasn’t admissible it gives the police the tools to hunt down the persons who assaulted the man.
As for your argument that “Don’t blame me for nepotism and partisan politics in Barbados which protects certain people. That existed long before I was born and will exist long after I am dead. Police will never be able to touch anyone ‘connected’ in Barbados. Unless they did something drastic out in public, and sometimes not even then.”
… just turn in your badge, OK? It would be the best thing you could do for your country. Maybe go gut fish or something. It would be far better for the country the further you are removed from a position of authority.
Have a nice day.
Robert
I’ll turn in my badge, when you stop writing such crap, which is never right? Because as long as you can type, you will continue to type ignorance.
You want me to turn in MY badge because I told you point blank that NEPOTISM and politics rules our country? You need to face reality my brotha…
What does my badge have to do with how our country is governed? Because last I checked the police do not create the politics or the nepotism. It’s a human condition.
What do YOU do for a living? Because clearly you show me you are VERY naive and sheltered.
Everyone who has ever been anywhere near government knows how things are, and I, nor you will EVER be able to change it.
Who do you think you are? Just another blogger who’ll never change anything.
Ok you hunt down the persons who assaulted the man… then what do you charge them with Mr Wannabe Police?
And like I said you might KNOW who did something from a video, but PROVING it in court is altogether a different thing.
But obviously I’ve struck a nerve telling you that the police are subject to politics.
You call for my resignation because I tell you how Barbados is? You need to wise up. Get out of your gated community, walk the streets, go in the ghetto, listen to people. I can’t believe you could be a Barbadian an so out of touch with your own society.
Hi Sayed,
Marcus here.
We’re not out of touch, we’re fed up. Robert was unkindly to you and I think he should temper his comments.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing “Edmund Burke”
Track down & charge vigilantes for WHAT? If it was my child & I had got a chance at him you would only have found pieces, if anything at all! The ppl were only giving the police a help-out. Maybe if the courts would deal with these perpetrators how they should be really dealt with then perhaps this might not have happened. But when you have our judges and magistrates giving these perps more rights than the victims and giving them just a slap on the wrists then what do you expect? Let me say now that this is not going to be the last episode of vigilante justice either if the people continue to be frustrated and fed up with how the criminals are being given the soft-soap treatment! The police of this country are completely demoralised because after all the effort that they put into solving some cases when it gets to the court before some “bleeding-heart” magistrate or judge the perp is quickly given his freedom to be soon back out on the streets to pick up where he left off. Then, of course, what level of recruit are we getting in the force and WHY?
This will be last comment on this site ever. Because it seems you prefer. Not to face facts and truth, but rather think that something can simply be done about things because they are wrong.
The mob was wrong to do what they did. Should they be prosecuted? Yes. Should the police investigate? It is within their authority and power to do so, which would have to be ordered commenced from a high level, because there exists no complaint on record.
However, the required evidence key emphasis on required is not sufficient to hold up in a court of law unless those individuals confess.
Or the complainant i.e Rawle Gibbs makes a complaint to the police and gives a statement and follows through with evidence in court. If he did not know those people which I doubt, he would then be required to ID them on an ID parade. But obviously he knows them because he lives in the area. Or at least he knows some of them.
Again approach these abstract incidents with fact, rule of law and due process, not with what you WANT to happen or what you THINK should happen. To do any less is pointless. And as useless as the mob themselves. You become an electronic mob.
Goodbye.
It appears those involved have gone the Jamaican way.Instant gratification where justice is involved.I guess there comes a time when the public who are fed up with slow progress in capturing and seeing justice delivered to such perpetrators have to take the law into their own hands.