Here we go again. Judge Bernadette Baxter said:
You have umpteen previous convictions but I’m not going to send you to prison as I think this will encourage your little boy to get involved with the kind of life you have lived. [J4MB emphasis. The boy is three. He should be with foster parents, while his mother serves a long prison sentence.] We need to prevent you from going to leisure centres, breaking into the lockers and stealing other people’s stuff, causing them distress and upset so you must get involved in a drug rehabilitation programme.
What an absurd pretext for keeping a woman out of prison. No man would ever receive such lenient treatment after 218 convictions. Why is the court system wasting time and resources prosecuting women? Why not just tell women the truth, that they won’t be held accountable for their crimes?
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This woman is well down the road of what is called a ‘criminal career.’ Read the ‘Snow White Syndrome’ or ‘Cinderella Complex’ – Both written by women and describe women who seek a Prince Charming to provide for them and think getting pregnant will hook him. But it didn’t, so in her dismay of being stuck with a child, she took to envy stealing from women she wanted to be then took to drugs to kill her psychological pain. The downward spiral.
The primary concern must be the child.
The judge is right – in one aspect. The probability is foster care will be as bad for the child as being raised by that mother, but the judge is wrong in thinking keeping the woman out of jail will be any better for the child. The child was conceived to be a means to an end – a providing man. Now the woman may learn the child is another means to an end – keeping out of jail.
The judge is wrong in thinking that keeping the woman out of jail to provide for the child will be any better than foster car. It may be far worse. Out of jail the woman is more likely to continue drug abuse and could overdose. It is not unreasonable to imagine the child phone ‘Mummy won’t wake up’ or worse being found several days after the mother has overdosed.
There is a far better solution. Adoption. Giving the child to parents who cannot conceive and want a child for the child’s sake as much as their own ends.
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curious, what happened to the father? excluded ?
I’m sure people will consider him a deadbeat whilst refusing to acknowledge that she is a deadbeat mum.. double standards anyone ?
Martin Scherer is right I believe, because she will never change unless she is given cold hard shock. How is it that a man or indeed any other woman who is abusive will have their child removed from them( even on a temporary basis) whereas this woman is using her son as a shield.
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