I am normally against the death penalty and summary justice, but sometimes I’ve been know to make exceptions, like for looters. I have just found another exception:
A 5-year-old girl, visiting New Zealand from Europe, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after what appears to have been a sexually motivated attack.
The girl was sleeping in a caravan with her 3-year-old brother at Club Habitat Holiday Park in Turangi last night.
Police say her mother went to the amenity block where her husband was using his computer. When she returned to the caravan she told police she found it locked and saw a man inside with her daughter. She ran screaming for help at which point the offender left the caravan, said police.
The girl underwent four hours of surgery today and is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. Her brother was not harmed and slept through the attack.
Detective Inspector Mark Loper, who is heading the investigation, would not say where the family was from, but said they had been travelling through the country and had been here for a while.
He said it is one of the worst assaults on a child he had seen in his 28 years of policing.
“The attack was brutal, on a young defenceless child who should have been spending Christmas on a dream holiday with her family. Her parents are absolutely distraught. They have expressed to us that their privacy is very important to them and they have asked for some space.”
Police will not be drawn on the detail of the girl’s injuries. However, Mr Loper said “they are significant and heart-wrenching. The nature of her injuries lead us to believe that the attack was sexually motivated”.
We should form up a posse, find this scum, string him up in a tree and let the crows peck at his corpse.
