Courageous Nurse Forgives Her Kidnapper
From AssistNews.net
LANARKSHIRE, UK (ANS) — The vicar of nurse Magdaline Makola — who spent ten days tied up and locked in the boot (trunk) of a car — tells London’s Premier Radio she has forgiven her attacker.
Thirty-five-year-old Justice Ngema has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison after he used Ms Makola’s bank cards to fund a Christmas shopping spree while she lay shivering in sub-zero temperatures last December, according to the radio station’s website.
Makola was eventually found dehydrated and suffering from hypothermia in Lanarkshire on Boxing Day (December 26) last year. Revd Jim McNaughton from Livingston Baptist Church said Magdaline has been a pillar of strength throughout the ordeal.
He told Premier Radio: “Magdaline herself has always been one that was quick to say that she forgives. It’s one thing to say it and another to live it, but I believe she has been given the strength through her faith to respect that forgiveness that she needs to give as a Christian.
“Her desire is not for one of justice in that sense but one of love for that person as well.”
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All due respect to Ms. Makola, but some crimes are un-forgiveable. Thank God the judge realizes this and laid claim to the possibility of keeping this man in prison, for life.
He not only nearly killed her, which could be forgiveable, but did so in a brutal and thus intentional fashion. In fact, he probably believed he had killed her and was simply so careless or ignorant, did not know how to make sure he had.
But then the article doesn’t make clear if by forgiveness she believes he should be set free, or upon completion of an “anger management” behavioral regimine……….LOL
The simple fact is that it’s highly un-likely he would have spent any time regretting his crime. He will now of course and say or do anything to conjure up believers in his newly found cause. His own freedom.
I think forgiveness and subsequent release from prison should be reserved for that point in time where the community and in fact world at large is equally shocked by his ability to transform the lives of people such as he had become.
For, would he not be the world’s foremost expert at that point? An individual who knew what it was like to have become a deranged monstrosity of a human being and what lay ahead on the road to recovery?
So, the day he can prove that he can at least by and large, if not in every case, cause the recovery of a deranged psychotic criminal, is the day he can be set free…..
LOL