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Baby P's mother, Tracey Connelly, is to be released from prison on the order of the Parole Board.
Connelly was jailed indefinitely with a minimum of five years in May 2009 for causing or allowing her son Peter's death.
She is far more guilty than they are if she did indeed allow this evil to happen
The saddest part of this whole thing to me, is that not only is she being set free early, but she will also be allowed to have more children. Makes me furious.
Painterz
I can't really blame the authorities for not protecting the kid. The sad truth is there are thousands, probably tens of thousands of children who are officially 'at risk', and we simply don't have the resources in social work departments to effectively monitor these children and protect them properly.
Until people are prepared to pay a lot more council tax to employ many thousands more social workers and sponsor taking a lot of children away from a lot of mothers, there's really nothing to be done.
But even then, the people in society who are so sick and broken that they can commit these crimes? They're sociopaths and/or psychopaths, which means they are very very good liars. And create very convincing cover stories. So they're very difficult to find out.
So no, I don't really blame The System (tm) for not doing more.
The problem is as you have all said and I agree, the punishment. It's very dangerous for society to be seeing these crimes given a brief slap on the wrist. We do need to see justice done to have any faith in it.
ObservingYou
Starving, beaten and emotionally damaged. Not really hard to spot...IS IT?!?!?
Pay more tax? Why don't they pull it from the WAR fund!?!!?!?
Your right, I don't blame the system, I blame ignorant people like yourself.
What ever happened to common sense?!?!?!?
Scorchio
And it's this second point that i'd really like to address. Our prisons are many and over-crowded and it costs the taxpayer considerably more per week to keep one person incarcerated than many of us earn. Quite frankly, people who have committed crimes against our society don't deserve to be paid for by our society. We're looking at a number of serious offences and a number of repeat offenders inside at present. Can these people really be rehabilitated to a point where they can offer something to society? I think not.
OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by DustbowlDebutante
The saddest part of this whole thing to me, is that not only is she being set free early, but she will also be allowed to have more children. Makes me furious.
the idea of her having kids makes me want to vomit.
Surly if she were to have another kid they would just put the kid right into care, no sane person could let her have another kid.