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Originally Posted by Daradon
Re: Capt. I definitely get where you're coming from and can't really disagree with any of your points. I think everyone can agree the biggest obstacle is making sure he doesn't re-offend. I'm not sure a longer sentence does that though. As terrible as it sounds, the fact that it was his own daughter probably makes it a crime of convienence, he will probably not try it with someone else's kid.
Not saying he should get a lighter sentence case he won't re-offend, just trying to separate the nuts and bolts of the argument.
And some families might want some penance or payback. Again I can't say what or how, but often in tragedies like that people (esp. victims) first look to answer the question 'why?' and then to find closure. When the perpetrator is related to you, often that involves tackling the issue rather than pushing it away, and finding some sort of forgiveness.
I don't know if I could ever do that, but I know people in the situation who have been forced to.
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I agree with where you're coming from here, but honestly I'd rather let the parole system evaluate his likelihood of reoffending rather than a judge today speculating where this guy's head is going to be at in a decade. The problem with terms of this length is that they leave no flexibility for the parole system to keep him in longer than the nine years. Too often, we have a parole system saying that a criminal is likely to reoffend, but they have no option to keep him in as the sentence has expired. If our system is really about rehabilitation, we should have longer initial sentences and a better-structured parole system.