60 years is too long for any juvenile. we don't know anything about his environment: how the kid was raised, why hed do something like this, etc. there is a reason there are protections for children in the system, because children aren't just born with fucked up values in their heads. sure, the report tells us he feels no remorse, so obviously he's been fucked up somehow.

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the mere fact that this guy is so fucked up should not merit the response "LOCK HIM UP FOREVER" but "HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS HAPPEN TO A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD?". locking this kid up for 60 years puts a band aid on a festering wound. psychoanalyze this fuck and figure out what is wrong.

i am not saying he should be slapped on the wrist, this kid needs severe mental help and needs A LOT of time in a prison system. i'm not one to decide how long. but 60 years is not worth taxpayer's money. and it wastes another life.

I would say what this girl did was much worse than sexual assault.

She had half an ear torn off, a lascerated liver, a skull fracture and bruises from the top of her head to her thighs.

We should just cut out the middle man and catapult this dumb kid straight into the sun; at least that's straight forward, and would probably cost the tax payers less!

That was pointed out earlier and I admitted my oversight. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove by bringing it up again.

...I mean, of course, these are suppositions -- some people go through this type of event and come out just fine. But chances are good that she will not....

I know what crime he's committed?

I'm mostly annoyed by the larger issue wherein I know and hear too many people who read or listen to a story like this and  their first concern -- their FIRST concern -- is the comfort and rights of the criminal. What about the victim? The criminal has all kinds of appeals he can run and in all honesty he probably won't serve more than maybe 20 years, if that -- people have gotten less time for more horrible crimes. There is almost nothing the 6 year old girl will be able to do to avoid the effect this traumatic experience is going to have on her life. Her relationship with other people will almost certainly be affected. She may never know intimacy. I mean, of course, these are suppositions -- some people go through this type of event and come out just fine. But chances are good that she will not.
I mean, just look at the posts in this topic. Nearly everyone is largely concerned with the criminal and his rights, as if the crime he committed against a 6 year old girl was just a footnote or something. Chances are good that she is going to be fucked up for life, and I'm supposed to be up in arms because the perpetrator might be fucked for life too?
I had a girlfriend who was raped from 2 to 12. That shit fucks with your ability to live a decent life. I don't CARE if the criminal EVER gets out of jail.

however, the worst sentences are meant to be reserved to those who willingly and in a complete sane state of mind committed a heinous crime (which he did) and demonstrate no remorse (which he has). It is in that spirit in which I wholeheartedly do not disagree with the long sentencing

Zeratul understands quite well how to add and subtract numbers and therefore Zeratul is quite aware that this kid will be white haired' date=' arthritic, and lacking knowledge of a real life beyond the prison cell if he even lives long enough to live out his sentence. Zeratul just doesn't happen to think that this is the worst of atrocities given that the girl he kidnapped and physically and sexually abused is going to be screwed for life in ways that Zeratul will not pretend to be able to predict, except of course to note that it will not be good.[/quote']
This is a stretch, but it is a valid point: this girl can work past what happened to her and live a normal life. The boy (this is on the condition that he, at some point, realises the error of his ways which as said before is very likely) will never be able to do this.