Double standards

[chrissy]

http://www.news24.com/Content/South...-02-2010-07-44/Farmworkers_baby_raped,_abused

Sorry to be spreading bad news so early in the morning, but why is this case not getting the attention it needs? Every life is precious. Just because this baby comes from a poor family doesn’t mean that the police must give it any less attention, they should be tackling this case, gloves off. Who’s been looking after the baby during the day? How could her mother not have noticed this?

 

[chrissy]

What amount of attention whould have been given to this case should the baby's parents have been richer, better educated?

 

[superskully]

To be honest, i hate hearing news like this.
Its just so undescribably sickening and sad at the same time.

 

[noxibox]

What amount of attention whould have been given to this case should the baby's parents have been richer, better educated?

True, and it is not fair, but that is the way of the world. The same happens when someone is arrested for some types of crime - poor person might as well go straight to jail, rich person gets leniency because they are considered to have potential and a future. And I'm not talking about South Africa specifically here.