While I deplore the actions of those who took part in the recent rioting that took place in various towns and cities across England, I cannot for the life of me figure out how it is right that a young man who stupidly acted on impulse was jailed for 16 months for stealing an ice cream, (read more: http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7195758/the-danger-of-disproportionate-sentences.thtml) and an intelligent, adult couple get away with a 9 month sentence for child cruelty and assault and a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, and a 100 hours of unpaid community work respectively, for subjecting (and allowing her to be subjected to) an eight year old child to extreme physical and mental abuse! Read more: (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030631/Stepmother-starved-beat-girl-8-professor-husband-did-nothing.html#ixzz1WExiL8JL)
Don’t get me wrong, I was in London during the riots and I applaud the zero tolerance approach to the people who allowed themselves to be caught up in that madness but it cannot be right that sentences such as that stated are given to a young man who took an ice cream whilst these two people systematically abused a child of eight years old, ripped out chunks of hair, beat and starved her and in every way neglected her and all they get is that! It is deplorable! That poor child will probably suffer for the rest of her life in one way or another from the abuse she has endured and has even been separated from her brother as a result and her ‘parents’, and I use that term in it’s loosest possible sense, have basically been given a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again! How can this possibly be called justice?
If our courts are going to clamp down on crime and send a tougher message then surely this should be exactly the sort of crime that deserves real punishment!
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