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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Because he has murdered five people, psychotic or not. That's a great and only reason to have him locked up for life.
I recall similar discussion here with a few usual ones advocating for Jasmine Richardson who helped her boyfriend brutally murder her parents and a little brother while they were all asleep. Not only she was released into the community after serving a short 4-yr stay at the psychiatric hospital, but the taxpayers have funded her extensive education thereafter. Why not, right. She deserved a normal life after all.
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Not commenting on whether this was correct or not, but Richardson was given a 10 year sentence, which is the maximum anyone under 14 can get. She served all 10 years. 4 years of that detainment was to take place at a psychiatric institution and 4.5 years of conditional supervision in the community. Her sentence had nothing to do with psychiatric conditions and everything to do with her age.
A different issue that De Groot, as Richardson was only 13 when she committed the murders. Richardson's accomplice, who was 23, was sentenced to 3 concurrent life sentences and is eligible for parole after 25 years, but he probably won't get it for many years after, if he does at all.