quote EDINVA “This situation presents a conundrum. The woman has obvioiusly totally reversed the downhill slide she took in her late teens after the death of her high school sweetheart. She basically developed an entire new and respectable personhod, as it were.
Yet the state has an obligation to enforce the law. They cannot set the precedent of letting someone off completely when they’ve broken the law just because they got away with it for 30+ years. On the other hand, prison is supposed to be for rehabilitation (which it rarely is). She seems to have done a good job of rehabilitation.
If she had told her husband and children, she’d have put them in the position of either having to turn her in or being complicit in her crime. Some secrets are best kept to oneself. It appears in every way she was a good wife and mother for all these years.
When you compare her crime to the Doehrn/Ayers’ from the same era, she should be commended. At least by developing a different life and lifestyle, she’s shown a form of remorse. We’ve seen none from them, and they have been out in the open living the lives of community leaders.” unquote
I agree with your post.
Thanks. It’s going to take a Solomon-like judge to deal with this (and in MI I am not counting on finding one).