Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Good intentions?
More proof our justice system is out to lunch. Check these quotes out on the following unbelievable case of child abuse:
The boys were locked in cages fashioned from baby cribs and chicken wire, beaten and forced to wear diapers when not at school. They were often so dehydrated, they drank their own urine.
...ruled that punishments including keeping the boys locked in cages were the result of “general good intentions...In explaining the sentence, Judge Halikowski said the abuse was not “meted out in a cold and calculated fashion, in the aim of satisfying some perverse desire.
I read reports they boys were routinely subjected to rectal probing. If this isn’t perverse desire, I don’t know what the hell is.
But gasps erupted in court after Judge Halikowski suggested the abuse was meant to “train” the children.
“There was no joy had in any of these acts, only frustration,” he said..."There is no doubt [the boys] were difficult to raise,” he said. “No parents could have raised these children successfully without the aid of professionals.”
We need to elect judges. Now.
Update:Wente gives more details 