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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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I definitely agree with some of what you said, but I tend to agree more with Hulk on this one.
What benefit does anyone get from locking her up for any longer than 10 years? If she's going to be rehabilitated, is there a magic number, and is it longer than 10 years?
If she can't be rehabilitated, then do we lock her up forever, or do we just make sure that she can't reoffend, which as Hulk pointed out, 10 years is proably enough in that case, she won't be having any more kids, and hopefully that's long enough for her daughter to grow up and realize what her mother did to her.
As for the bolded part, I'm pretty sure that's completely irrelevant in just about any case, and most definitely in this one.
Let's be honest, no one, let along this woman, checks the criminal code, sees that her maximum sentence would be 10 years, and then sayd "Yup, that's short enough for me! Time to torture my daughter".