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Apr. 27th, 2007 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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There's really something very wrong when a man can get jail time (45 days) for being in a car and knowing there was a prohibited weapon in that car and yet a man can be convicted of molesting a 7 year old over a period of months and the proposed sentence by both prosecution and defence is only *house arrest*. Mind you, the judge in that case is reserving sentence because he doesn't think the sentence is enough. Too bloody right it's not. But how much you want to bet the man just gets *more* house arrest than was proposed? House arrest is a new trend around here and i can't see that it's all that difficult a punishment. Ok, you can't go out. Well you can. For appointments, and work if you have a job. But come right home after work, little boy/girl! So they can sleep in their own bed, cook nice meals, watch tv whenever they want, and earn a living. This is punishment? And I'm talking crimes like killing someone because you were driving drunk, or sexual abuse etc yet someone that knew there was an illegal weapon in the car gets jail time. He didn't use the weapon, and the article didn't say it was on his person (it was a can of spray that only the police are allowed to use, ffs, not even some sort of gun!)
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There's really something very wrong when a man can get jail time (45 days) for being in a car and knowing there was a prohibited weapon in that car and yet a man can be convicted of molesting a 7 year old over a period of months and the proposed sentence by both prosecution and defence is only *house arrest*. Mind you, the judge in that case is reserving sentence because he doesn't think the sentence is enough. Too bloody right it's not. But how much you want to bet the man just gets *more* house arrest than was proposed? House arrest is a new trend around here and i can't see that it's all that difficult a punishment. Ok, you can't go out. Well you can. For appointments, and work if you have a job. But come right home after work, little boy/girl! So they can sleep in their own bed, cook nice meals, watch tv whenever they want, and earn a living. This is punishment? And I'm talking crimes like killing someone because you were driving drunk, or sexual abuse etc yet someone that knew there was an illegal weapon in the car gets jail time. He didn't use the weapon, and the article didn't say it was on his person (it was a can of spray that only the police are allowed to use, ffs, not even some sort of gun!)
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