60 Days for Murder

He didn't like the way his 13-year-old daughter was cleaning the kitchen, so he killed her.  And what was his sentence?  Sixty days to be served two days a week. 

It is so outrageous I can barely type!  The bottom line for both the ludicrous and incompetent judge and the defence lawyer were the "cultural differences" between Guineans and Canadians.  Whaaaaat??!!  Apparently, in Guinea you can slap your daughters with gay abandon -- even if the slap causes their death.  But the judge (sorry, but I bet she was a woman) said the cultural differences between the two countries could not be discounted.  By the way, no one beats or slaps boys.   

Hey Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore!  Justice is blind and cultural differences must be discounted -- unless, of course, you're a native Canadian and then 'Bob's your uncle'.  But for the rest of us, this is Canada and not only can you not use unreasonable corporal punishment on your children, you certainly cannot kill them and get off scott-free, as this guy did.  Oh, another forgot another fiasco, proffered by the now-phantom Premier, Dalton McGuinty, who actually....I kid you not....floated the idea of Sharia law for Ontario!!??!!  So many people have no idea about the Canadian Constitution, the rule of law, habeus corpus, and the like.   

The sick thing is that all his family crowded around and supported him, testifying to what a great and loving father he was.  Please.  This bum must have really slapped the girl hard -- apparently twice in the face -- because he ruptured her vertebral artery, causing her brain to swell and she to die.  I did give my kids spanks now and then, but never in anger, never on the head and only for lying.  I know it's out of fashion now, but I remember my own mother spanking me.  Once.  Never forgot it.  There's a vast difference between "beating" and a little corrective spank, in my opinion.  Funny thing was, it only had to happen once and the behaviour stopped. 

Puts me in mind of that Muslim couple who killed their daughters and one of his wives by pushing their car into the Kingston locks.  They too tried the to play the cultural card, but it didn't work.  That case changed the "judicial attitude" into a hard-line position on such killings.  The judge in that case obviously had smarts and conviction.  Why it didn't apply to this murder is beyond the beyond.

Makes you wonder, what's next?