Like so much human garbage

Consider the following cases. If you were the judge, how would you handle sentencing? Bear in mind, in each case the defendant has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and the prosecution has accepted that plea.

A corporate scion, who stole millions from his or her company's pension plan deliberately impoverishing the employees who in good faith paid into the plan, gets whacked by one of those disgruntled employees in an altercation in the staff parking lot. How much time would you give that employee?

A devoted family person who handles an average job, has several kids and does nothing but live and let live, is killed in a home invasion after getting into a struggle with the burglar. How much time would you give the burglar?

A sex trade worker who is also addicted to drugs is kidnapped by a drifter, strangled to death, and dumped on the side of a rural road like so much human garbage. Knowing the kind of life the woman led, what would be a fair sentence for the pimp?

Well, a judge in St. Catherines has given a defendant in something akin to the last case time served plus one day -- meaning he only has to serve one more day in prison.

One day.

One can be a complete misogynist and still feel revolted by this, because someone who killed the titan or the average parent would get a dozen or more years in jail; but because the woman, Stephine Beck was a hooker, the numnuts judge thinks that she deserves to be treated in death worse than she was in life. This makes a mockery of equal justice for all.

The sentence must be appealed by Pointy Head ... no questions. It's also way past time to reform the prostitution laws so that street walkers have the same rights as those who take advantage of them and crimes of violence committed against them are treated as hate crimes -- which is what they are.

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