Mother who dumped baby wins appeal

Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2009-04-06 15:36

Story here. Excerpt:

'A WOMAN who abandoned her baby in a railway station toilet cubicle has walked free from court after successfully arguing that sending her to jail was too strict a sentence.

Lisa Randall, 26, left her eight-month-old son in a cubicle at Bristol Temple Meads station. On Monday, Torquay Magistrates sentenced her to four months in prison for abandoning her child in a way which was likely to cause him "unnecessary suffering".

But yesterday at Exeter Crown Court, her defence argued she felt "threatened and intimidated" in prison and was afraid of the reaction from other inmates if they found out why she was jailed.'

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Men who are FALSELY ACCUSSED of child abuse face the same situation. Here you have someone who actually deserves this type of punishment, and she evades it because she lacks the Y chromosome, which many foolish individuals believe is necessary to have to be evil for some reason. I mean, she's not a moronic father, like the ones you see on TV all the time. She really didn't mean to harm the child, really... [/sarcasm]

Wow, could you imagine if people had this same mentality regarding races, and would never sentence white people because you have to be a "person of colour" to be capable of deserving a sentence that harsh?

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2009-04-06 16:42