Pistorius free up is a good Day For spouse-Killers everywhere
AS Reeva Steenkamp’s killer is released, that is sending the improper and shameful message to males in every single place.
good news this week for any would-be spouse beaters and girlfriend killers. Oscar Pistorius was launched from penitentiary after spending just three hundred and sixty five days behind bars for shooting 4 bullets via a bathroom door into his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The Paralympian will serve out the rest of his five-year sentence at his uncle’s decidedly unpenitential mansion in Pretoria.
Reeva Steenkamp died in February 2013 photograph: AFP
This case has been dismaying from the start, when an athlete who used to be known for mood tantrums on the track if things didn’t go his manner, failed to offer anything drawing near a credible clarification for a way he had fallacious Reeva for a burglar. What Pistorius calls “the devastating accident” regarded remarkably like a worried young lady locking herself in a loo to get away from her offended partner.
The paltry time Pistorius spent in the back of bars is an insult to victims of home violence and a shameful reflection on justice in South Africa where three ladies are killed through their companion day by day.
Reeva Steenkamp’s oldsters, Barry Steenkamp and June Steenkamp sit in the Pretoria high court docket photo: Phill Magakoe/Gallo images
Pistorius’s parole stipulations state that he “must endure psychotherapy and is not allowed to personal a gun”. What a crying shame those conditions were not imposed on the reckless, hotheaded athlete *before* he murdered Reeva Steenkamp.
AS Reeva Steenkamp’s killer is launched, this is sending the unsuitable and shameful message to men far and wide.
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