Many moons ago, when I was just a lad serving in the Navy, a Turkish destroyer moored outboard of us at the Long Beach Naval Station. She was in for a refit and training, it seems. One day, quite unexpectedly it seems (there were no tugs), she cast off and sailed away. That evening she came back again and tied up as before. Shortly after Rumor Control had it as definitive from Scuttlebutt Central that one of her sailors had raped an American woman in the town. She then got underway, steamed out beyond the 12 mile limit and hung the perpetrator from the yard arm and his body cast into the sea.

It made a lot of sense to my shipmates and I, we approved the sentence and the execution. For raping a child, it seems to me, a perp should be not just hung, but drawn and quartered as well.