Mom who killed her two year old only gets 40 years

[Alexmahone]

If not death then life.

Meaning she leaves prison in a box.

Or at least in a bag that immediately gets tossed into the sea.

Please tell me I'm not the only person who read that book.

The Count of Monte Cristo?

[Rev. Rye]

Or at least in a bag that immediately gets tossed into the sea.

Please tell me I'm not the only person who read that book.

The Count of Monte Cristo?

Yup.

[CapnAwesome]

The boy's father is serving time in federal prison for abuse and neglect of a son with a different woman.

Wtf. So sad.

[LadyForCamus]

Oh my god, why did I read that? 😞

[viocjit]

In my country (France) if you killed your child.

Accorded to 2° of article 221-4 of code pénal (Can be translated as penal code or criminal code) you does risk life imprisonment (réclusion criminelle à perpétuité).



"Le meurtre est puni de la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité lorsqu'il est commis : 
2° Sur un ascendant légitime ou naturel ou sur les père ou mère adoptifs ;"

Translation in English by myself :

"Murder is punished by criminal imprisonment for life where it is committed:
2° against a natural or legitimate ascendant or the adoptive father or mother;"



This is the maximum penalty you can face.
But in reality , it's rare to see people who killed their child being condemned to this penalty.
It's rare to see those who committed a murder against their children being condemned above 25 years of criminal imprisonment accorded to stories that I remember.




Link in French on LegiFrance (An Official website of French authorities) : https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCod...e=20180721

[Anomalocaris]

The sentence seems a little light doesn't? Why do stories like hardly get any media attention?


https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/mom-...-1.4017927

In what way would a more severe sentence than that serve any legitimate goal better?

It’s as if despite being atheists, we still can’t free ourselves from the fundamental, albeit sagar substitute coated, meanness, sadism and mindless and hyperbolic vindictiveness of Christianity.