Manuel Mallia’s policy on crimes against children
When I’m elected I’ll givve an amnesty to all those who are in jail for trying to get you hooked on hard drugs.
You can stab, strangle, starve or beat a child to within an inch of his or her life, but you can’t sexually assault the child because that would be bad and he won’t give you an amnesty.
There is a man in that prison, who I happen to know because his Sliema family (right next to John Dalli’s friend Silvio tal-Mqaret, in fact) have supplied mine with paraffin since before World War II, who stabbed the mother of his child more than 50 times in a cocaine-fuelled frenzy after breaking down the door to her flat.
He kept right on stabbing her as she cowered in the small space between the kitchen cupboards. A friend and neighbour heard the screaming and came rushing down, saw their very young child watching her father murder her mother in a sea of blood, knew that it was too late to even try to save the mother, and instead snatched the child away and ran to ring the police.
According to Manuel Mallia’s reasoning, this man would have done worse to sexually assault his young daughter than to murder her mother before her eyes with such gruesome bloodiness.
And also according to Manuel Mallia, those who commit crimes of this magnitude and other murders are eligible for an amnesty, but the pervert who pulls his pants down at the sight of a child (which classifies him as a paedophile sex offender along with those who actually do assault children sexually) is not.
Sickening.
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If Muscat thinks this man is the best he’s got to put in charge of this ministry then I shudder to think what the worst would be like.
It’s easy to give an amnesty. But has Mallia ever thought about how to rehabilitate offenders (especially those whose crimes are very serious) while ensuring public safety?
Now one wonders, would it pay more to rehabilitate offenders or to give them an amnesty and the opportunity to re-offend sooner?
Thank you, Daphne. Please do go on about this perverse logic.
Perhaps when it becomes a well-publicised scandal then our dear Joseph will put a stop to it.
Sure, and then you’ll get a reply such as ‘Why not?’
Gimme a break – this is so sick.
Mallia simply can’t comprehend what child-abuse or abuse entail.
By appointinig such illiterates to ministerial posts, Malta is committing a slow suicide.
Slow, we are racing in a downward spiral at rollercoaster speed.
Nixtieq inkun naf kemm mill-prigunier li hemm gol-habs iddefendijhom Manwel Mallia?
Jien nara lill Mallia bombastiku u nibza li qed tikber rasu. Nisperaw li ma nisimawx xi bomba kbira meta jinfaqa.
Two things annoy me about this amnesty, and both show that it was nothing more than a PR stunt in very poor taste:
1. ‘Elections’ are not a reason to give amnesties – it’s ridiculous. It’s the most blatant abuse of office for votes we’ve seen to date. Not to mention the inherent conflict of a criminal lawyer freeing criminals!
2. The exclusions to the amnesty should have obviously been greater. Excluding the paedophiles and not the murderers, drug dealers and other unsavouries smacks of populism.
Minister Mallia’s photo hugging an inmate and allowing the rest to chant “Taghna Llkoll’ is an insult to whoever suffered from the crimes committed by those inmates. I am sure this is a rude awakening to those switchers who fall in this category of citizens.
Shame on whoever was involved in granting this politically motivated amnesty.
Even though it would further increase burden on our taxes, I do think that a Minister for the Protection of the Law Abiding Citizen would be the way to go.
Consider this: criminal lawyers with fees that only a few top earners can afford but which criminals have ready access to (besides being on hugging terms with), lack of challenge from prosecutors, amnesties and legislation reform in the hands of the very persons who earn a very good living from defending criminals. This system should be published in a manual entiled: ‘Incentivizing Crime – a foolproof method’
Now this is one measure which has probably directly hurt the victims of the people he pardoned and their immediate families. Can Mallia not see that this could be counter-productive vote-wise?
Min se jkun dak il-Membru Parlamentari kuragguz bizzejjed biex jipproponi ligi li tiprojbixxi l-ghoti ta’ mahfriet ta’ pieni minn sentenzi ta’ habs (amnestiji)? Cert li se jsib l-appogg ta’ parti kbira tal-poplu.
Prison inmates, including rapists and murderers, despise paedophiles and reserve special treatment for them. The warders close both eyes to what happens to new paedophile inmates.
Our bulldog minister has the same mindset; he ‘likes’ drug dealers, thieves and murderers and hates paedophiles.
I am very curious to see what will happen, when the very first of this lot who got the amnesty, will end up in court again for committing another crime.
I wonder if the Minister will stand the heat then, or his own conscience (assuming he has one).
One thing I am not sure of – how I would react if I ever had to be a victim of one of these criminals who got out thanks to this amnesty.
Does the Minister really think that out of these criminals, no one will betray his ‘trust’? I’m sure he knows this and this makes him very irresponsible.
Amnesty my foot. More like a travesty.
Dr. Mallia made a good living from getting, or trying to get, criminals off the hook. So expect no better, or otherwise.
Nghid ghalija ma nahsibx li hemm lok ghal xi amnestija tkun xi tkun l-okkazzjoni.
Min wehel il-habs ghandu jiskonta l-piena tieghu kollha ghax ghandu risponsabbilta’ lejn min ghamel l-att kriminali.
Il-Ministru jmissu iccikkja kemm min dawk li hargu u le se johorgu sa l-ahhar ta’ din is-sena huma rijabilitati biex jghixu fil-komunita’ mhux billi taghom il-permess biex johorgu. Tghid dawk in-nies imgarrba se jiehdu gost b’din l-amnestija?
Mallia’s amnesty stinks; the discrimination between who gets it and who does not stinks even further. Minister Mallia …..mm….more pleasures yet to come?
Well, on one hand I have always had zero tolerance for abuse, so I share his feelings, however on the other hand, one should not make a political roadshow out of child abuse either.
I don’t agree that the amnesty stinks, because it gives people the chance to re-integrate in society and I wish people stopped being so judgemental for a change, it shows lack of maturity.