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9 ½ Years Seems A Bit Steep To Me. What Do You All Think ?
9½ years prison seems a bit steep to me. She may have messed him up mentally, but it sounds as though the lady is in sore need of psychiatric treatment herself, not rotting in jail. What do you all think ?
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Pretty tough, I think.
Rightly or wrongly I tend to cut an older woman/young lad more slack than I usually would with the sexes reversed.
I think they develop real feelings for the lads involved. A 40yr old woman can easily get sex if that was her only interest.
And having been a 15yr old lad, I know they don't need much coercion.
Rightly or wrongly I tend to cut an older woman/young lad more slack than I usually would with the sexes reversed.
I think they develop real feelings for the lads involved. A 40yr old woman can easily get sex if that was her only interest.
And having been a 15yr old lad, I know they don't need much coercion.
Thanks for your responses, some as expected inevitably. The "genders reversed" argument I find difficult to accept but that's possibly (probably!) because I am male.
Apart from the mental/emotional consequences (and STDs), the consequences of "forced" intercourse are usually more severe for the female (i.e. pregnancy) so when the victim is female the "crime" is IMO surely that much worse.
On the other hand enforced fatherhood cannot be glibly dismissed as harmless.
But 9½ years (even reduced to 5) is still a helluva long stretch, especially for one who probably has severe emotional problems herself. What does it achieve?
Apart from the mental/emotional consequences (and STDs), the consequences of "forced" intercourse are usually more severe for the female (i.e. pregnancy) so when the victim is female the "crime" is IMO surely that much worse.
On the other hand enforced fatherhood cannot be glibly dismissed as harmless.
But 9½ years (even reduced to 5) is still a helluva long stretch, especially for one who probably has severe emotional problems herself. What does it achieve?
four points behind punishment: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution. (A fifth is restitution but it doesn't seem to be involved here.)
Deterrence: a warning to adults that sexual abuse of minors is considered a serious offence and they shouldn't try it. Tick.
Incapacitation: lock her up so she can't do it again, at least for a few years. Tick.
Rehabilitation: don't know, British justice doesn't seem to be big on getting people fit to re-enter society. She's allegedly sought counselling in prison, which is good but I don't know if it was part of the sentence.
Retribution: punishment for being bad. Tick - though I think she was more bad than you do.
Overall, that's what the sentence achieves.
Deterrence: a warning to adults that sexual abuse of minors is considered a serious offence and they shouldn't try it. Tick.
Incapacitation: lock her up so she can't do it again, at least for a few years. Tick.
Rehabilitation: don't know, British justice doesn't seem to be big on getting people fit to re-enter society. She's allegedly sought counselling in prison, which is good but I don't know if it was part of the sentence.
Retribution: punishment for being bad. Tick - though I think she was more bad than you do.
Overall, that's what the sentence achieves.
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