Crowd Cheers as Convicted Rapist is Eliminated in Olympic Beach Volleyball
Non-paywall: https://12ft.io/https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-cheers-as-convicted-rapist-is-eliminated-in-olympic-beach-volleyball?ref=home?ref=home [https://12ft.io/https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-cheers-as-convicted-rapist-is-eliminated-in-olympic-beach-volleyball?ref=home?ref=home]
I’m very conflicted about this whole thing. On the one hand, yeah it’s kind of a scandal and people have every right to be booing him every time he touches the ball.
On the other hand, he was convicted, sentenced, did time and is now back in society apparently showing remorse. People are calling for his career to end and various wishes of death on him. Why can’t he continue his life?
Are we supposed to lock up all criminals forever? Kill them? Just not allow them to follow their chosen career after getting out? Or is it just sports they shouldn’t be allowed to participate in?
While I agree this seems extremely small. The netherlands is not the US. The specifics of court cases are not made public. We have no idea about them. It might be a very ambiguous case that barely fit the definition of rape or whatever.
Not trying to defend rape or rapists, but we may need more context before we can judge the length of a sentence.
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