‘Collateral victim’ of residential schools gets 15 months for burning child 27 times with cigarette,

[kylel999]

He better hope the other prisoners don't find out what he's in for in those 15 months or he won't last it anyway

[No_Excuses]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;50107998]If a person has a fucked up background it should absolutely factor into whether or not they're afforded leniency but 15 months for such a heinous crime is pretty bullshit. I suspect there's more to the case and the suspect's background than we know about.[/QUOTE]

I think a pretty decent percentage of people who commit crimes come from abusive or adverse backgrounds which as far as I know isn't factored in normally. It's more to do with him being native American and the government being spineless becuase they're still trying to apologize to them for the past.

[Mattk50]

[QUOTE=Kylel999;50111046]He better hope the other prisoners don't find out what he's in for in those 15 months or he won't last it anyway[/QUOTE]

This is awful.

[kylel999]

[QUOTE=Mattk50;50111127]This is awful.[/QUOTE]

Awful as it is it's dreadfully true. I'm not saying I wish it happens, just pointing out his type of criminal don't do well behind bars

[editline]11th April 2016[/editline]

Then again I don't know if Canadian jails are as awful as American ones

[Elowin]

So he got a lighter sentence because there was a reason in his past for why he's being abuse now?
But there's always a reason though?
People don't do things for no reason.

[GordonZombie]

As horrible as the residential schools were, regardless of whether or not they (indirectly) led to him being abused by his parents/grandparents, that doesn't justify continuing the cycle by inflicting further abuse on a child. That's the same kind of logic as a Holocaust survivor going on a killing spree of Germans and blaming it on when they were almost mass-murdered themselves