Should she/he have been sent to jail?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co...uld-be-too-appalling-

Just because jail would have been an “appalling experience” for her, and she would have had to serve her sentence out in a male prison, was it any reason for her not receiving a prison sentence?

If she is legally a female, why would she have to be sent to a male prison? If it is her safety they are concerned about, why not be sent to a female prison?.

[Zeuhl]

Whoa!

Lot of effort to go through to get a trophy for the mantlepiece! :-)
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[andy-hughes]

i am with Zeuhl's original point on this - the law proscribes a punishment of imprisonment, it does not include vigilante violence which would occur here, although I do side with the 'segregation' argument.

Please people, let's not queue up to post 'it's what she deserves / let the cons do their worst / death's too good for her' and so on, while we try to prove who can be most self-righteously angry about what they read in the media.

It doesn't help any of us.

[jno]

have you had an accident of some sort, Zeuhl? Good luck with getting over it if so.

This person is lucky to have got off lightly, but it's probably for the best: you could build prisons for transssexuals but it hardly seems worth the effort. The 'segregation wing' would have seemed a possibility - if so I don't know why it wasn't considered.

It seems however that the offence was on the slightly lesser side - downloading child porn rather than acutually abusing a child. I'm aware of the argument that even buying the stuff contributes to child abuse; but it's a less serious offence in my opinion, and considering the other factors you could just about make a case for her staying out of jail. I would have tried it if I'd been her lawyer.

[dh001]

"but it's a less serious offence in my opinion"

Unbelievable

[Zeuhl]

jno

thanks for your best wishes.

Fell on the ice while walking in The Lake District few days before christmas - messy leg break. On the mend now thank you.
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[jno]

ouch. The NHS under the Tories won't treat such self-inflicted injuries, you know. You'll have to reset your own bones.

[Greedyfly]

Lol JNO I would have probably healed quicker if I had fixed my ice related break myself lol. It has been going on for over a year and a half. =)

[jno]

sheesh, you guys should all stay indoors posting on AB from September to April instead of making like polar bears.

[Zeuhl]

LOL jno

Well I did a lot of AB-ing Jan onwards from my bed-of-pain and subsequent sofa-of-pain. I think the tetchiness of my AB posts over the past seven months was directly related to how much boredom, frustration or pain I was experiencing at the time.

In retrospect; sorry to anyone on the receiving end of any of it!
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