He should get 20-life. Who is this idiot judge?
He should have been beheaded.
Oh wait - the politicians in your country banned private gun ownership and they let sick monsters back out on the street.
If the family had a gun, he would have been six feet under by now.
Gives her more practice time when the perv gets out.
Just sayin.
The child will bear the scars for life, she will forever be sexually crippled, the family will suffer for life, the perp should get the death sentence, or at a minimum be castrated, not walk after three hots and a cot for five years.
Replicas are very blunt edged. She needed to run him through with it. The tips are usually still pointy and sharp.
Why such little time, is that common? And no additional time for threatening to kill the judge and Childs family?
The sentence is a joke, hopefully a decent convict will beat him to death with a mop handle.
Where does one go for Samurai range time?
So sick! My heart hurts for this baby. Throughout the world we should punish these demons to the harshest most extreme limits for harming our babies!
What the ruling should have been:
“It is the ruling of this court that the mother of the child be permitted to improve her skill with a blade. A sharpened blade will be provided for the mother to use upon her child’s assailant.”
“Judge Michael Rackemann said Ellis’ behaviour and abuse of the girl was “very disturbing” and warranted an eight-year term.”
The judge thought that what this criminal did was only, “very disturbing” and nothing more. That says quite a bit about the judge.
It was an ORNAMENTAL sword- probably had no edge on it at all. A cheap, sharp machete would have been much more effective.
she should have beheaded the beast.
EIGHT YEARS???
Death.
Since it was an ornimental sword, we know it was dull and not full tang. I'm surprised she injured the perv and not herself.
A katana is made for cutting and slashing, not stabbing, but it can be used that way if need be.
I'm sure the reporter has no clue what was actually done to the perv.
8 years? Ok, but first he needs to have his privates sawed off, with a rusty sword, slowly.