WE CAN HELP TO REDUCE CRIME IN OUR SOCIETIES

In reading today’s story, my heart bleeds for the act that is being done, not to the girl but by the girl.

What causes me grief here is, what  must have led a thirteen year old girl to shop lift or steal bread? How much is bread?  My guess is Hunger and poverty.

You see, crime rate is increasing worldwide because leadership as it stands in most countries, is such that the less privilege have no hope. Well, this is the case because ungodly people hold a greater percentage of the leaders in government in our nations. We need people that know what it is to be godly and to have the heart for the masses: i.e both rich and poor alike.

You can do it, if only you can listen to what your Creator is saying to you. If this girl and her family could afford bread, she would not steal, perharps…..

With the right people in power there will be more jobs, better pay, more social amenities, poverty eradication, more free school that is well equipped and generally a better society.

Read with me and make your comment then take action because this story raises different issues according to how it strikes our different minds.

 

This is how a supermarket in South Africa deals with shoplifters

Nicholas Reilly for Metro.co.ukFriday 20 Mar 2015 6:46 pm

 

Rachel Ngema was stopped by staff at the Spar store when they found a loaf of bread hidden under her jacket (Picture: CEN)

This photo of a young girl inside a cage shows the uncompromising attitude that one supermarket in South Africa has taken towards shoplifting.

In the picture, Rachel Ngema, 13, can be seen curled up inside a cage used for transportation, after she was caught stealing a loaf of bread from the Spar supermarket in Ebony Park, Midrand.

Speaking to The Citizen newspaper, a cashier at the store said that the unorthodox punishment was frequently dished out to shoplifters.

‘They [the management] always do this’, she said.

‘She might sit there until we knock off for the day in the evening’.

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But shopper Sibongile Mthembu slammed the punishment as ‘abuse’.

She said: ‘This is a blatant abuse because this child should be taken to the police if she stole’.

However, another employee, who wished to remain anonymous, added that under-age children were subjected to the ‘lock-up punishment’, because police often failed to arrest them.

Isaac Mangena, a spokesman for the South African Human Rights Commission, slammed the punishment as ‘inhumane’.

He said: ‘We always expect people to take those they catch stealing from them to law enforcement authorities’.