SINGAPORE: Police have arrested two boys, aged 12 and 14, who are believed to have assaulted a 79-year-old man in a bid to rob him.The elderly man lodged a police report on Tuesday, informing that he had been assaulted by two boys who tried to rob him earlier on the same day at Block 124 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6.
He suffered a swollen left eye and abrasions on his face, knee and palm as a result of the attack.
Police said officers from Ang Mo Kio Police Division were patrolling in the vicinity of Blk 341 Ang Mo Kio St 31 later that day when they spotted a group of youths at the BBQ pit.
The group fled in different directions. The officers gave chase and detained one of them - a 12-year-old boy, after a short chase.
Police said that preliminary investigations revealed that he was believed to be one of the suspects who had attempted to rob the 79-year-old victim earlier.
The officers managed to establish the identity of his 14-year-old accomplice through follow-up investigations and arrested him in the vicinity of Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 on Wednesday morning.
After reading this article, I feel that those two boys are cruel. How could they not only rob the old man, but also assault him! I feel that this is totally unacceptable, they should be severely punished. The two boys are already robbing an old man at this age, what if they grow older? Will they commit a crime that is more serious than this?
ReplyDeleteThe two boys should think carefully before they carry out this act. What if their own grandparents were to to rob by other people? How would they feel about it? I am am sure that they will not feel good or nice about it too. They will also feel angry about it too.
In conclusion, parents should discipline their children from a young age. Parents should spend more time communicating with their children to show the children that they care for them and love them very much. This can prevent their children from mixing with the wrong company.
From this article, it is shown that children may be getting worst as to go and rob an elderly. But in this case, they are not only robbing, but also assaulted the old man.
ReplyDeleteI would personally feel that the punishment upon them shouldn't be so soft even though they are children so that they will learn their lessons and not repeat the same mistake ever again.
The police is also effective in this case as they caught the robbers on the same day of when the incident happen. However if possible, it would be better if they can stop the crime before it happen so there will be lesser casualty.
In conclusion, the school, parents and community can each play a part to educate children on what is the things they should do and what is not.
Rebecca
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article i was shocked that the teenage boys were being so cruel to rob an elderly man. At such a young age they should be severly punished and taught a lesson as we would not want them to become worst when they get older.
They were brutal in their act to cause injury to the poor man and I wonder what led them to such an act. Firstly it is already very wrong to commit robbery, and now they even assaulted the man.
I feel that the parents and school should do more on educating youngster nowadays as many incidents or crimes now involves them. If not dealth with properly, I wonder how the society will become of in future.
From this article, I find that that youth nowadays are becoming more daring. How could a 12 year old boy rob an old man? I wondered how and what the two young boys are thinking as when I was in their age, I did not even have the slightest thought of robbing others.
ReplyDeleteThey should have think carefully about their actions or at least sympathise the old man. Therefore I hope they are punished severely to make them learnt their lesson. The police are also competent as they managed to arrest one of the culprits on that day itself. However they should do more patrolling in future to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
Parents should look out more on their children to prevent them from doing the wrong things and mixing with wrong company. School and neighbourhood community can conduct more activities with youngsters to prevent them from wasting time doing all the wrong things and mixing with the wrong friends, especially when there are more crimes involving teenagers recently.
It’s not surprising to know that someone has committed a crime. However, to me, it is surprising to see a boy as young as 12 years old robbing and assaulting an elderly man. What will happen to the children in the future generation? Will any of the future generation follow the steps of the current generation and start robbing at such a young age?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I feel that those people who robbed and assaulted that elderly man deserves to be punished including the 12 year old boy. He may be young but he has to be taught a lesson. If he escapes from punishment because of his young age, he may repeat this again or even commit worse crimes because he will think that he can escape from punishment no matter how severe the crime is. If that 12 year old boy is punished, it will also serve as a warning to other children that no one can escape from the law no matter how young they are once they have committed a crime.
I feel that parents should play a part in reducing these crimes. They should teach the children the basic morale values so that the child will understand and follow willingly. If these kind of things repeat, many people would even be afraid to go near to children for fear of being robbed and assaulted. If everyone does their part, I believe that Singapore would be a safer place to live in.
I do agree with what Ernest had commented. Children should be punish more severely so that they can remember their mistake.
ReplyDeleteUnlike the past where the law had not tighten the protection for child abuse so much, teachers and parents are able to hit their child when they have made a mistake. Like me when I was a child, my mother will take a cane to chase me from the eleventh to fifth floor just because i never did my homework.
The children should know the pain of being hurt from young so that they know what is pain and try to hurt other to let them experience the same thing.
Therefore, I think that the law should loosen up a bit so as to allow at least the parents to punish the children when they have did something wrong.
I agree with what Amirul had commented. Even if I was in their age, I wouldn’t have done such a shameless act robbing the elderly. I didn’t even dare to lay a hand on them. So why could a 12 and 14 year old boys attempted to rob the elderly? There are many reasons into it. This incident may due to mixing with bad company in school or their parents did not teach them the right way to handle stuff when they were young. Amirul also commented that “They should have think carefully about their actions or at least sympathise the old man.” The children should not be so cruel and heartless to abuse the elderly as they have their grandparents around them too. I am sure that they wouldn’t want this incident to happen on their grandparents too. After this incident, I guess the children will turn remorseful and learnt their mistakes.
ReplyDeleteIn future, I hope that police will do more patrolling around the neighbourhood’s void deck and parents should take good care of their children and teach them not to be abusive as to prevent the same incident to happen again.
Tracy Lim 106406M
Even though Singapore is a safe city, it does not strike out crimes. Robbery, theft and rioting were few of the most common crimes which i ever heard. However, this is the first time which i had ever came across of children at such a young age, committing robbery. To me, i felt so disappointed that the younger generation, the fututre hope of Singapore, were getting out of hand. Committing robbery is already wrong, but striking on the fragile and weak elderly is even worst. I really hope that the government can create more campaigns and activities to convey the right messages to everyone, especially the young ones, how to differentiate from the right and wrong.
ReplyDeleteGazyle, 106338Z
My heart goes out to the parents of these youths, they would have been so upset to know that their own child are a social menace & disrespect or cruelty. That perhaps they should have brought up their child with better moral values since birth. Once again, good parenting is much needed with good education for a better future of Singaporeans.
ReplyDeleteGood article and good review! Keep it up with the writings! Ms Yeo