ACT Justice System 15 years for child manslaughter

This shit is making me go crazy. 15 years is not enough. Life isn’t enough. This person has to die slowly.

I think he got the maximum possible for manslaughter?

Apparently it was manslaughter because he only intended to really hurt her instead of kill her.

I think there need to be two grades of manslaughter – one for people who really kill someone by accident, and one for people who kill someone in an unplanned way, but by being intentionally violent.

Personally, I think beating a four year old (sometimes afour year old might need a smack but not a physical beating) is needing a most severe punishment, but a grown man taking to a four year old with one or more weapons (saucepan? walking stick?) doesn’t really say unintentional to me.

I’m happy to let history decide this particular outcome. We’ll see.

Sorry Maelinar, I could rattle off to you (off the top of head) at least a dozen child killers or molesters from the 1980’s that have been released. I can think of one particular creature who put his de-facto’s baby into a microwave fusing her fingers and toes. He did about 9 years for GBH. They really don’t serve long and they are well wrapped in cotton wool whilst in custody.
The last Paedo that was killed inside was at Junee over ten years ago, so if it’s vengeance you want to see youve lucked out ’cause the system just isn’t geared for it. (Despite what Jack Waterford and the CT would have you believe.)

Of course, it would have been manslaughter because he ‘didn’t mean to do it’.

I’m not saying its reasonable, just that he was found GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER, not MURDER.

Median sentencing for manslaughter in NSW is 8 years, last figures I can recall (vaguely).
The sentence seems in line with it being a brutal and merciless version of manslaughter.

Save your venom for whomever chose manslaughter over murder.

I think being unnecessarily harsh is warranted at those who think bashing a defenceless 4yo is a reasonable thing to do.

I thought I was the only one thinking you were all being unecessarily harsh…

Bugger, I thought I had backed out not submitted as I had changed my mind about whether the difference between manslaughter and murder would be picked up in the responses.

Oh well.