Westbury: Discipline and bare-bottom canings

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The one I had was made of wood with a padded top and padded knee supports, spread to keep knees apart. Do make sure that circulation is not restricted and try to ensure that edges of leather straps are rounded and smooth to avoid chaffing when the recipient begins to struggle. In February 1993, 22-year-old Amuthan and 21-year-old Narayanasamy were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane, while 26-year-old Ganesan was sentenced to a heavier jail term of 78 months (equivalent to six years and six months), in addition to 12 strokes of the cane. He tells me that the pain is beyond belief as the tawse bites into the same spot, overlaying agony with more agony.

When the rattan hits the bare buttocks, the skin disintegrates, leaving a white line and then a flow of blood. The Singaporean government has stated that in its opinion, the Convention on the Rights of the Child does not prohibit "the judicious application of corporal punishment in the best interest of the child. I do have a sense of humour, however, so if Robert wants to make me laugh, he has the option to try using a safeword.Once a recipient is securely strapped down over a good whipping bench, and a check has been made that the restraints are not so tight that they cause circulation problems, the administrator can relax. Similarly, during the period before the convicts' deadlines of their appeal notices, caning is not carried out until the deadline expires and with the convict not making a notice of appeal. In May 2011, Galing made a successful appeal and as a result, his charge was reduced to robbery with hurt. He would never be able to release himself during punishment, and if he tried I would see it and put a stop to it, then add severe penalties, but we do have the peace of mind that he could eventually free himself if anything happened to me. This results in the most bizarre and frantic contortions of the few parts of his body he can still move as he tries to deal with the agony that rages through his bottom cheeks.

He was spared the death penalty and re-sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane in 2013 after Singapore changed its laws on drug trafficking. After his release in 2008, Bala committed seven robberies and at least three sexual assaults, and he was arrested and sentenced to 42 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane. Soosay did however, receive six strokes of the cane (plus a four-year jail term) for having inflicted violence while being a member of an unlawful assembly in another murder case (mentioned right below). However, the birch was apparently not particularly effective when used over clothes, whereas the cane was still capable of making itself felt through several layers.Chua Ser Lien (42 years old) and Tan Ping Koon (35 years old), the two men who kidnapped a seven-year-old girl for ransom on Christmas Day of 2003, but they released the girl thirty minutes after the abduction as they were tailed by a witness of the crime. If there is no interest in listening to the begging and pleading that often accompanies sound punishment, then a gag can be useful. In that era, offences punishable by caning were similar to those punishable by birching or flogging (with the cat o' nine tails) in England and Wales. The thick leather restraining straps and the wooden joints do tend to creak a little as he exerts almost superhuman strength in his futile attempts to escape.

I do understand that many practitioners of corporal punishment recommend 'warming up' the recipients bottom with a lighter hand spanking, before moving on to the cane, but that's not the way I like to do things. Once he has removed his clothes, he is restrained in a large wooden trestle based on the British dual-purpose prison flogging frame. Zainal Abidin was subsequently sentenced to death and hanged on 30 August 1996, but he never received caning for the murder since the law forbids caning for any convicts who received the death penalty in Singapore.However, anecdotal evidence suggests that the offender, while waiting in a queue for his turn to be caned, has the chance to observe [42] or hear the screams and cries of those before him getting caned.

I always applied the birch to the recipient’s bare bottom while he was secured over my whipping bench. I use a ball gag – a rubber ball about the size of a ping-pong ball, held in place with a head harness. Those who are sentenced to caning and are in the process of appealing against their sentences do not have their sentences carried out while pending the outcome of their appeals. Wang Wenfeng, a Chinese work permit holder charged with the robbery-murder of a taxi driver Yuen Swee Hong in 2009.

Any male convict, whether sentenced to caning or not, may also be caned in prison if he commits certain offences while serving time in prison. I do occasionally get a little carried away, and exceed this figure, but Robert can become intolerably flippant in the weeks that follow because he is confident that I regard his healing bottom is a 'no cane zone'. As for Tay's four accomplices, two of them, Ong Chin Huat (aged 38 in 2000) and Lim Hin Teck (aged 32 in 2000), had fled Singapore and remains at large till today, while in the cases of the remaining two culprits, William Ho Kah Wei (aged 19 in 2000) was found guilty of failing to report an alleged murder offence to the police and served six months' imprisonment in February 2003, while See Chee Keong (aged 34 in 2000) was given a jail term of ten years for manslaughter; both did not receive caning because Ho's crime was not punishable by caning while See was 50 years old at the time of sentencing and hence he became ineligible for caning.