Subbiah, a criminal for tremendous volume of sexual assault and one of Canada’s worst sex offenders, was ultimately convicted in December 1992 and January 1997 of 75 crimes, including 26 counts of sexual assault against more than 30 victims, four of whom were minors and one as young as 14. After being painstakingly interviewed, 120 out of 500 women who survived from the sexual assault by Subbiah agreed to go to the court. “The offences involved you luring and grooming the female victims using deception and manipulation, subduing them with intoxicants allowing you to have full control over them while they were incapacitated, and sexually assaulting them. You also took pornographic pictures of the victims while they were nude and unconscious,” which is the disturbing tactics revealed by a 2014 Parole Board of Canada review of Subbiah’s case, which indicates that the difficulty of defending or even fighting back during the attack and the seriousness of the issue.
As Chapelle, who is a survivor, claimed: it is never the fault of the survivor for being attacked regardless of how she behaved, what she said, what she was wearing. I strongly agree with the statement since a lot of comments on website today are criticizing the female victims in terms of what they were wearing or the effectiveness of the way they revolted, which is significantly ridiculous to me since the crime of sexual assault is, without doubt, the fault of the offender, and there is no way to blame a victim in any kind of case. As previously mentioned, a lot of the victims chose to keep silent because they were harmed and felt shameful to speak out, which is understandable but not encouraged. Analyzing from the aspect of an individual’s value system, especially instrumental values which refers to preferable ways of behaving, part of the female victims chose not to go to a court to accuse the offender and remind other women and instead kept silent due to their values and personal attitudes; they prefer to hide their dark experience from people around them as well as the public.
Also, Hodgson’s general moral principles, which refer to ethics, are noticeable. Ethics is the study of moral values or principles that guide our behaviour and inform people whether actions are right or wrong. Clearly, the offenders of sexual assault are against ethics and have a lack of moral values so that we can of course indicate that their actions are clearly wrong and are worth being blamed and boycotted.
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reference list:
- Nasser, Shanifa. “Victim Feels Haunted as One of Canada’s Worst Sex Offenders Set for Release.” CBCnews. CBC/Radio Canada, 28 Jan. 2017. Web. 28 Jan. 2017. <http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sex-offender-release-reoffend-1.3956109http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sex-offender-release-reoffend-1.3956109>