*chortle*

I agree this is murder, because they might die now, and they raped their victims.

This is disgusting.

Don't actually see this happening anywhere...

*grabs law books*

Dutch law classifies this as TWO separate crimes: First of all Rape, punishable by up to 12 years in prison. And secondly Premeditated Aggravated Assault also punishable by up to 12 years in prison.This is PER CASE. So far there have been 8 reported (though the police fear there may be many, many more ).

If the prosecution play their cards right they can send these guys away pretty much forever. Since there is also an obvious mental disorder here, as well as danger of repeated behavior they can also be sentenced to become "Wards of the State" (TBS in dutch). This means the basically get committed to a mental health facility for 2 years after they have served their jail time, but this can then be extended by four years (and extended again EVERY four years there after) without a trial. Strictly based on them being found by their wardens to be mentally fit to return to society. Which i hope will NEVER happen.

Since both of them are terminally ill i think the only thing they have to look forward too is a slow painful death behind bars.

If there was a worse fate I would wish it upon them. But i think this is the closest to justice we can get in this world.

The fact the human can do something like this to another human makes me sick. Why can't everyone just live at peace with one anoither and not start shit? I understand it's a lot to ask, there's a lot of fucked up people in the world, but what makes a person do this?

People like this should be treated as murderers, because that's what the they are. I believe they should get the same kind of sentance that any other rapist, murderer or whatever should get. Convict them and with no hesitation shoot them. Don't waste money feeding, clothing, and keeping them alive in jail for however long. Just so they can get out and do it again. Just kill them on the spot and save the tax dollars. People like this do not deserve life.

Hopefully things will change soon enough.

They're going to end up in prison, where they can continue doing just what they've been doing. They're probably looking forward to it.

In light of recent articles, should there be a 'sick shit' section added to the newswire?

Newswire stories that make you go WTF?

What I find intriguing, aside from this story being just horrendous beyond belief, is that, while you admit that the story's content is too disturbing to be of any entertainment value (with which I agree), and your report is "soley" informative, that you do use this incredibly sad and horrific tragedy to promote your personal politcal agenda:

Somehow, I fail to recognize the relation of this terribly, terribly disturbing news of a gang of gay, dutch, rapists, who inject their HIV infected blood into drugged victims, with "conservative America." Please explain. You're sensitive to the fact that it's too wretched to be used to poke fun, but not too bad to be used for taking a shot at some barely defined, neo-political ideology? Riiiight.

My suggestion, in order to avoid this very simple dilemna in future "News" reports, is what we refer to in the scholarly world as "Logic 101" and "Introduction to Critical Thinking" - they are classes being taught at a university near you. Take advantage of it.

I was making no statement whatsoever, and in this sense I wasn't referring to political conservatives. I was referring to our nation in general as being sexually conservative compared to many others, including the Netherlands. In this case, I was referencing the typical American view that a lot of Americans have of places like Amsterdam (which many like to think of as a hotbed of drugs and prostitution) as evidenced in generic films like "Eurotrip" and that one Cheech and Chong movie (which one? I forget.)

I make no claim to be an unbiased writer. Read the SG Newswire charter: generally speaking this is biased news, and I'm not apologizing for that. However, in this situation, and in this article, there is no agenda other than to report a story to our readers, and I believe that's what I did. If you think that contextualizing this story somehow takes away from it, well, you're entitled to your opinion. But the word conservative has more than one meaning, and how you choose to read my statement is up to you.

All those in favour?




I.

This isn't just murder. This is murder by horrific, wasting death.

God im fucking scared of the world.... its filled with so many, many sick people. Its actually beyond words to describe how i feel about this...

Why did you need to take a completely irrelevant jab at America for this story?

Because that's what all the cool kids do. Didn't you know that every news story in existence shows how Conservative America sucks? Sheesh....

Interesting picture at the top of this article, by the way.