for child killers life imprisonment is far worse than death.
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My heart breaks for the unknown children who are at this moment suffering such abuse. Every other month they seem to uncover a similar case.
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Which is why we do ourselves no credit by being so uncivilised as to use this as a sanction.
I am aware of the problem probably more than most as three of my four daughters work with and for battered women who live in fear almost every day of their lives; their children have usually suffered too at the hands of their father/step-father/motherâs boyfriend.
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But then if other inmates harm them, they will be punished & she will be kept in solitary!
Other prisoners are not there to dole out the punishment that those who sentence them are unable to do!
I am sure a referendum on whether these two should hang would have the majority saying YES. There was no doubt that they had committed the crime & spending ÂŁ2.5 million to keep them prison for their full term is a disgrace, when that money could be used to fund better social services & foster care for other maltreated children.
It is too late to protect them once the are dead & I would be ashamed of myself if my beliefs didnât always put the victims first⊠when there is no doubt they did it!
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That social services woman who was head of childrens services just walked away from her job with a generous pension after poor little Arthur was killed! Even though she had left she should still be held to account because she was in charge and she was being paid a 6 figure salary. It happened on her watch and we need to stop this rot from the top down.
RIP Little Arthur. I just canât even discuss what that poor child went through.
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Latest developing news on the jail sentences received by these two killers is that they are to be reviewed following claims that they are too lenient:
"The couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes will have their sentences reviewed after claims they are too lenient.
The Attorney Generalâs Office said the jail terms will be reviewed to âdetermine whether they were too lowâ.
It comes after Tory MP Julian Knight said the sentences were too lenient."
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Good. Perhaps while the authorities are deliberating, someone might decide to bring back capital punishment.
At the very least, assisted suicide should be made available and a DNR rule in place.
I donât think they will survive much beyond Christmas reallyâŠ
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We live in hope.
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I read in a letter in yesterdayâs DMail that they shouldnât be attacked or killed while in prison BUT they should be treated exactly the same as they treated little Arthur. By that the correspondent meant giving them tiny portions of very salted food, totally ignoring them, etc. I think that might be appropriate for a few years (and then stab them with a shiv).
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That sound fair to me coz little Arthur had a deep bruise for every day of lockdown when he died of starvation.
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Perhaps with a bit of luck the other prisoners might see to that.
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I donât think they should be punished by other inmates, isnât that just encouraging more violence?
They should be punished by the law of the land & if the country allow people to be locked up for years, at great expense, & then released, do they really think it will change their attitudes?
The death penalty is the only way to rid this country of such evil people, and allow the decent people, especially children, to live a safer life !
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They will be though if put in general population. Prisoners have less tolerance for pedophiles and child murderers than society does, far less. What does that say about civility?
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Having worked with and for DV women since my retirement, I am of the opinion that anything to do with children always attracts more attention than any other offence and where women are battered and attacked, the children usually are treated the same.
Society is more protective towards children than their mothers and that has always puzzled me.
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I donât know about the UK, but in the States prisoners guilty of crimes against women and children usually have to be put into Protective Custody. Otherwise the other inmates would kill them. To me inmates display a more protective attitude about who shares their environment than we do. Iâm not saying that we should go on a killing spree, But we definitely need to do a better job of policing our own environment .
Iâve no idea about the prison system in any country as my only experience is of refuges and those fleeing violence in the home from a male.
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The Purge 
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