mylifesexample wrote:
NickD wrote:
I would be in favour of the loved ones of the victim deciding the sentence.
But that is what makes these events even more despicable, it's perpetrated by the parents....
Seems like most if not all the recent cases I've heard about have been perpetrated either by the parents or by someone the parents should have been regulating (boyfriend, step-parent etc). There have been a few unbelievably heinous acts of child abuse publicized in the last few months (I mean, any act of child abuse is beyond any normal understanding but there are some which absolutely take your breath away with their cruelty) and they have all been at the hands of the parents. I'd like to see people like that mandatorily sterilized but of course they won't do that (at least not here in the US) because then you're messing with their "civil rights" (eg the right to have more kids to exert your power over). A local judge here actually tried it a few years ago and damn near got disbarred. The convicted woman had five kids already and was pregnant with a sixth, claimed to not know who the father(s) were, the kids had been in and out of care (and hospital) all their lives but there was a bigger outcry over the judge's order than over the repeated abuse of the children.