Our thanks to Nick for this. Excerpts:
In mitigation, Kerhsaw’s lawyer Liz Ridgeway said: “This is an extremely difficult set of circumstances, especially as this is the first time the defendant has been before the court before…
“She knows this conviction could potentially stop her from getting another job in the social care industry. She is an honest woman [J4MB: Our emphasis] and feels deep shame and remorse…
Sentencing Kershaw, JP Susan Craig told her: “We do feel for your situation but that doesn’t take away from the offence you have committed. This could have been a very different ending and you could have ended up in custody. But neither of us want that. [J4MB: Since when did what criminals ‘want’ have a bearing on their sentencing? And WHY doesn’t Ms Craig ‘want’ to send her to prison? Because vagina, presumably.
If feminists want genuinely want to be equal that includes accepting equal consequences for their actions.
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Of course feminists don’t want equality, they want to retain and wherever possible extend their privilege.
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anywhere outside the western world, she would be in jail. The men there may not be the gentlemen we are, but at least justice is carried out evenly between the genders. .
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If she had been a man she would have gone to jail.
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