Tuesday, February 4, 2014

How do you rehabilitate a murderer?


Below are links to two stories where either one or both parents murdered their child. These events happened within a short time of each other. This type of behavior is common in the animal kingdom but should not be with highly evolved mammals like humans. I will never know what goes through a person's head when they commit acts like these. I once left my 2 year old in the car when I went inside to get take out for dinner. I was in there for 15 minutes and when I came out and realized I forgot my son I started sobbing like a baby and now 14 years later I still have not forgiven myself. I could have easily lost track of time and come out too late. I might as well have died myself if that would have happened because I would not have been able to live with myself. Luckily, it was not for that long and my son was safe although a little sweaty. He's now 16 has a 4.0 grade point average and plays high school basketball. But even as I write this I'm still disappointed in myself or that momentary lapse of thinking. In one of these stories below the mother and her live in boyfriend kill the woman's daughter. They then pack up there things and try to disappear only to be found at the train station. There was evidence of sexual assault and blunt force trauma. What kind of animal(s) can do this to a 3 year old? If you can do this to a 3 year old do you deserve to live any longer? I don't think so. How do we expect to ever evolve as a society if we leave people like this to procreate or share their ideas with others? In the other story the mother and father are arrested after the police suspect that the 5 year old was beaten and later died because of the injuries. The child woke up and complained about his eyes hurting but was told to go back to bed. In our society the people that either can't afford children or should not have children end up having the most children. While the people that can afford children or are mature enough to have children have less children. This statistic is disturbing. This is because people that can afford children only have on average 2 children. They feel that they need to give each child attention and be able to afford college for these children. On the other side of the spectrum they're having children for money. They get government assistance and they see each additional child as a revenue source. They have one child and then see how much more money they get for an additional one and it's too tempting to avoid. Instead of using government assistance for what it's intended for they use it as their crutch. It was intended to assist you through tough times not to live off of long term. Now those people have 3+ children and they can't afford them because the government assistance was meant only as a safety measure and so the kids end up insecure because they cannot afford to have the items that more fortunate children have. The parents also do not have the time to give each of these additional children the same amount of attention. All around the situation screams of insanity yet the cycle continues generation after generation. The problem long term is that individuals like the people in the articles below will be allowed to server a sentence that often is not severe enough for the crime. A child lost their life and the murderer will be allowed to re-enter society after serving a sentence. But what sentence fits the crime? How can you let a person out of prison if they murdered a child? That child never gets to breathe again yet we let the people that murder them back out into society for a retry? How is that right? The argument against capital punishment is that they get rehabilitated in prison before they re-enter society. Anyone who attempts to make this argument obviously has not been in prison or even researched the conditions in prison. Prison is a place where people do not become rehabilitated. They become conditioned to survive in an environment that is not conducive with rehabilitation. Guards often get satisfaction by placing new inmates with other inmates that they know will either sexually violate them or severely harm them. This is a game to the guards because they do not see these individuals as deserving better treatment. They also see it as their way of punishing these individuals for crimes they committed and teaching them a lesson. Now, the person that was already damaged because they murdered a child is now even more angry and hostile because they are now being tortured. I'm not having sympathy for these individuals as much as I'm trying to say 2 negatives do not equal a positive. What's more is that we put all of these murderers in the same place so that now they can actually discuss their actions with other likeminded individuals and now spend time learning new ideas. They can learn ways to avoid being caught the next time they have a chance to commit the same crimes. Now when they re-enter society they have kind of attended a university for violent criminals. They are able to use these new tricks of the trade to avoid being caught the next time. It's almost as if we used the prison system as a sort of catch and release program. My question is how we allow sick violent criminals to re-enter society when there is an extremely high likelihood that not only will they re-offend but that they will take their violent crimes to the next level. I'll never understand our lack of conviction for individuals that violate our basic codes of human decency or for the compassion that citizens give these criminals.

 

 

 

http://elcerrito.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/mother--boyfriend-arrested-in-el-cerrito-on-suspicion-of-sexual-assault-homicide-of-3yearold

 

http://www.cafemom.com/articles/in_the_news/166137/parents_accused_of_brutally_killing?utm_medium=sem2&utm_campaign=prisma&utm_source=outbrain&utm_content=0&non_us=US

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