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Old 09-14-2017, 04:58 PM
 
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Mother who murdered son admitted to NYU doctoral program after serving 20 years was denied Harvard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/u...ones.html?_r=0
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Old 09-15-2017, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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While I find that disappointing, I'm not surprised.
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Old 09-15-2017, 06:37 PM
 
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While I find that disappointing, I'm not surprised.
About which part?
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Old 09-15-2017, 06:43 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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I wish she'd gotten the same prison justice that a male child killer would have gotten, but sadly, she did not. Hopefully she can take that doctorate straight to hell with her when she goes...
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Old 09-16-2017, 11:36 AM
 
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Its very sad to see so many people wishing punishment for life nowadays, once a person pays their debt to society, they deserve to start over with a clean slate as much as anyone else, in fact its one of the founding principles of our legal system.

However, what I see today is more mob rule than anything else, once someone is even alleged of a crime, people start off on how they need to be punished in terrible ways, often violent deaths even! Its strange, these are probably people who otherwise claim to be good proud americans, but in reality, they would be happier under a nazi style rule, where even a simple allegation is enough to be put to death.


And by the way, when did so many people become so pro-police/ or pro-govt? They seem to take allegations made by these 2 groups very seriously and pretty much trust everything they say...if police say so and so is guilty of X...well they are 100% guilty then, no need to even have a trial or a court hearing, sadly this is the mentality nowadays, where is people used to take the side of their fellow citizen over police or authority in a heartbeat.
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Old 09-16-2017, 11:52 AM
 
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Well, maybe people don't have much sympathetic feelings toward someone who not only murdered a innocent child but their own child.
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Old 09-16-2017, 12:10 PM
 
Location: southern kansas
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Its very sad to see so many people wishing punishment for life nowadays, once a person pays their debt to society, they deserve to start over with a clean slate as much as anyone else, in fact its one of the founding principles of our legal system.

However, what I see today is more mob rule than anything else, once someone is even alleged of a crime, people start off on how they need to be punished in terrible ways, often violent deaths even! Its strange, these are probably people who otherwise claim to be good proud americans, but in reality, they would be happier under a nazi style rule, where even a simple allegation is enough to be put to death.


And by the way, when did so many people become so pro-police/ or pro-govt? They seem to take allegations made by these 2 groups very seriously and pretty much trust everything they say...if police say so and so is guilty of X...well they are 100% guilty then, no need to even have a trial or a court hearing, sadly this is the mentality nowadays, where is people used to take the side of their fellow citizen over police or authority in a heartbeat.
Some (perhaps many) people may have a different opinion about what that 'debt to society' entails. Some may feel that 20 years in prison isn't enough for taking a child's life. So you're going to have those that call for punishment for life. As for me, I would want to know the facts about the case before forming an opinion on her punishment.
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Old 09-16-2017, 12:19 PM
 
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Some (perhaps many) people may have a different opinion about what that 'debt to society' entails. Some may feel that 20 years in prison isn't enough for taking a child's life. So you're going to have those that call for punishment for life. As for me, I would want to know the facts about the case before forming an opinion on her punishment.
Very little facts about the case out there. They never even found the body.
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Old 09-16-2017, 12:43 PM
 
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The legal system is at fault here. Not the school. Another question is if she studied child developmental psychology or something like that. That's where things get difficult.
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Old 09-16-2017, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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About which part?
Harvard would find some reason to reject her. This is not news, just a given.

She didn't spend her time in prison trying to figure out how to smuggle in drugs or kill guards. She made good use of her time.

We send people to prison to punish them for the crimes that they committed, but most are eventually released. We then shun and don't want to employ them. That creates another problem.
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