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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
What's the cost/benefit of keeping her in jail longer?
10 years, she won't have kids again, afterwards she'll come out and maybe pay some taxes, and likely not have an opportunity to do anything demented again, and probably will have more scrutiny over her actions helping prevent any nasty reprocutions of her being free.
Keep her in jail, we waste millions on her.
I think people get a little emotional over the whole "Lock them up, and rape them with the key" that goes on in all of these threads.
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When it comes to violent crimes I don't really apply accounting principles to it. We could more easily balance it out by bringing back hard labor sentences and road gangs as well. Send them to the arctic for 5 years to do road work and build runways and harbors.
I would hope that the sentence involves a large permanent restraining order to protect the daughter. Even though I believe that the girl is so traumatized and indoctrinated that she'll seek her mother out.
You want the screwed up side of the cost benefit charge. The cost to fix this poor girl is enormous, but that's a price that right if she can be fixed.
I would agree with a some that a looong jail sentence probably wouldn't be worthwhile in this case though I'm convinced that this woman is a psychopath and can't be fixed. However there does have to be a perception of justice and there has to be a concept of deterrent in the face of a crime like this and that's why a major sentence is required.
The joke of it is, she'll probably only serve a couple of years and be out, that's a pretty low price to pay for torturing and abusing your own daughter and that's the sickening part. Personally I also think she should be sterilized so she can't have any more kids.
I also think a case like this deserves a proper flogging. But that's just me.
I would be all for lower sentencing on first time offenders, in terms of violent crime, if you reoffend violently you get tossed down a well never to see society again.