In the Thai paper there was a good story about a very famous lady, Siriporn, nicknamed the "Female Samson" by the local press, who was in jail for trafficking methamphetamines. She started boxing while in prison and it has turned her life around.She won on April 3 last year, while still on probation, the women's World Boxing Championship (WBC) light fly-weight title in a fight staged at the Tanyaburi Women's Prison.
She has successfully defended her title twice since the April fight and last December was named WBC Goodwill Ambassador.
Now she has sold her story to a production company Women In Focus Production Inc hoping to make it into a movie. It was sold for an undisclosed sum of money.
"I read about Samson in many newspapers and thought her story would be a good way to broaden the image of Thai women," said Niramol Sriyanond, the film producer for Women in Focus Production.
Now, I am really happy she has changed and taken her second chance with both fist, literally speaking. I hope she does go on and becomes even more famous, especially overseas.
What I don’t agree with is that she is directly profiting from a crime that she committed. Sure she has done her time and so forth. Australia has very strict laws that stop people profiting from crime. I don’t know if Thailand is the same and has these sort of laws.
An Australian girl Schapelle Corby who was sentenced to drug smuggling in Indonesia wrote a book called My Story and it sold well but the Australian Government has frozen close to 300,000 Australian dollars as they believe it to be profiting from a crime that she has been found guilty of committing.
No one should profit from crime. All countries should have laws to stop it. They could confiscate the profit or money and then donate it to hospitals or other charities that deserve it.
Siriporn is scheduled to defend her title in April in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, against Japanese challenger Kayako Ebata.
I wish her all the best for the fight and hope she successfully defends her title again.
Brunty.
2 comments:
You have an excellent point; if many other countries would adopt the same policy of non-profit from crimes, that would be great.
No more OJ Simpson, Mike Tyson and a host of others that just use their horrible crimes for 'street' fame.
Hi Franky. If you do a crime you shouldn't be able to profit from it. I am happy that the girl is now becoming successful and all that and any money she is making best of luck to her.
Profiting from her crime of selling drugs and being put into prison for it, isn't right. It is meant to be a punishment not a reward when you commit a crime and are jailed for it.
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