ONLINE FEEDBACK

Below are excerpted comments from our online readers in reaction to yesterday's story, 'Battered by the law', which addressed domestic abuse perpetrated by members of the security forces.

Leave relationships

People with such antisocial tendencies (spousal abusers) should not even consider relationships. They should remain married to their jobs.

- Brownen

Don't blame the job

Don't think it's the job itself that turns them into abusers so much, but rather, it's men (and some women) who have a lust for abusing other people who tend to seek out jobs like policing where they can give vent to their sadistic ways because it's unlikely they'll be held accountable for it.

- Yamdigger

No excuse

A stressful job is no reason to beat and kill innocent people. They knew what they were signing up for when they did. And as for the soldier, he has no excuse. Because they barely touch the streets unless it's major. So if all-expenses-paid living is stressful and leads to murder, then maybe I'm in the better position!

- Honey

Too desensitised

It is very tough to speak to any member of the police force, not even chaplains. You just never know who's going to go back and tell your partner. The JDF and JCF operate like a college fraternity.

Domestic violence is still not taken seriously within the JDF and JCF. Sometimes, I think the job soldiers and police personnel do has desensitised them.

- Ericajackson_2000

Women, be careful

Women need to be extremely careful of these violent, controlling men. Men who feel they cannot live without women in their lives need to be honest with themselves and get help.

No one belongs to us, and this is what everyone in a relationship needs to understand.

- Sally Porteous

Abusers need to do the 'warmington'

Woman beating is not limited to the security forces, so let's not try to make a link between the way they do their job and the way they treat their wives.

You go uptown into the hills and witness the horrific treatment some wives receive from their esteemed husbands who not only beat them mercilessly but are very unfaithful.

To women, I say, get educated, get a job or start your own, and tell these abusers to go do the 'Warmington', i.e., go to hell.

- Jayjaybrown97