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[Amikami]

99 years for supergluing, that's way too...



Carry on.

Yep. This was me exactly.

 

[diamount]

My apologies guys. The Coma thing seems like it should be in the title.

Maybe you should actually read the OP before posting.

 

[VALIS]

A Dallas judge sentenced a young mother to 99 years in prison Friday after she admitted to super-gluing her toddler’s hands to a wall

Well that seems a little severe.

and beating the girl so severely she ended up in a coma

Ohh. OK then. Enjoy the rest of your life in prison.


edit: looks like i was hardly the only person who went through these steps

 

[Sutton Dagger]

If the child hadn't fallen into a coma and the women were arrested and sentenced to jail, I'm guessing we'd get quite a few "I was beaten as a kid, and it set me straight" posts.

Probably.

I'm not sure how anyone can say a 99 year sentence is reasonable. You wouldn't get that much for a murder charge.

 

[VALIS]

Probably.

I'm not sure how anyone can say a 99 year sentence is reasonable. You wouldn't get that much for a murder charge.

Because the victim is a child. In a society that doesn't shock easily anymore, child abuse is still way up there in terms of outrage.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Well deserved..needs worse to be honest. Poor little girl.

 

[OriginofHysteria]

I read the thread title and thought "wow 99 years for that?"

Then I read the rest of the story. Damn straight 99 years for that. What a psycho.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

If the child hadn't fallen into a coma and the women were arrested and sentenced to jail, I'm guessing we'd get quite a few "I was beaten as a kid, and it set me straight" posts.

Not for 2 year olds, who can barely speak any language.

 

[Floex]

Why do they keep these kind of people in jail?

I say torture them, then kill them

Because we should be leading by example and not becoming like them. It's pretty hypocritical sentencing someone to be tortured for torturing.

 

[Cyan]

Because the victim is a child. In a society that doesn't shock easily anymore, child abuse is still way up there in terms of outrage.

Exactly. We get to crazy sentencing like this because over time, what seems like a normal sentence shifts upwards. And in cases like these that get us immediately emotional, we want extraordinary sentencing relative to what seems normal to us.

Because we should be leading by example and not becoming like them. It's pretty hypocritical sentencing someone to be tortured for torturing.

Depends on what you consider to be the point of criminal justice. If it's meant to be a revenge thing, then torturing someone for torture might be reasonable. If it's meant to be a deterrent, then I suppose it depends on how effective torture is relative to the possible societal costs.

 

[OriginofHysteria]

Because we should be leading by example and not becoming like them. It's pretty hypocritical sentencing someone to be tortured for torturing.

I'm sure the tax dollars of the people of Dallas say otherwise.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

Because the victim is a child. In a society that doesn't shock easily anymore, child abuse is still way up there in terms of outrage.

I understand the outrage, I don't think we should be making legal rulings based on outrage/shock though. There are child rapists and murders that get lesser sentences.

 

[Amakusa]

hope someone super glues her hands together between two bars.

 

[SpectreFire]

It honestly sounds less like she was a horrible person and more like someone who ended up in a very very shitty situation and just snapped.

Sometimes people just go crazy.

 

[KillerMan91]

Why is this better than sentencing her to 5 years in gaol and making sure she's never responsible for children again?

As with most other instances of family-abuse, there's little evidence to suggest she's a danger to anyone outside of her care. There's no evidence to suggest that other instances of parental violence will be prevented by an excessive sentence.

All this does is ensure the US prison population is 1 higher for the remainder of her lifetime.

Pretty much this. Shame that there are so few people like you that think about this rationally.

 

[blitz64]

Mom deserves it.

The only good thing I can think of is that the child will not remember any of it. Hope there is no permanent damage.

 

[DJMicLuv]

Seriously.


Who the fuck bites a child?

Baby biters bite babies.

 

[Unknown Fighter Type II]

And we have to agree with that, why?

The issue is not whether you agree or disagree. That wasn't my point. Society in general reserves harsh consequences for those who commit such actions. That was my original point, which was trying to emphasize that uh....child abuse is dealt with HARSHLY. Hence why I said I don't find her sentence overly harsh, in light of her crimes.

 

[A Link to the Past]

But she's eligible for parole starting at year 30.

My point was that if she was given that harsher sentence, people wouldn't notice as much. 99 just seems a lot more severe because it's impossible to serve 99 years, so people take notice.