> At age 4, she’s still about a year short of being eligible for an honor killing.
He’s unspeakably Evil. What a pity Australia (like New Zealand) no longer has the gallows for scroats like him.
I do not care if he is mentally deranged: he needs to hang anyway.
> I do not care if he is mentally deranged: he needs to
> hang anyway.
Agree.
If he’s deranged enough to have done it once, he’s deranged enough to do it again. The only way to guarantee that he doesn’t, is to execute him.
I agree that this type of crime warrants death and I wish the penalty could be enforced, here.
But at the same time, there are other aspects of the case that disturb me as well.
He’s been described as somebody who was a good father to his children, and the day before this happened he’d had to appear in the Family Court over a custody dispute with his estranged wife. He also drove to that court with his surviving two children just after he did this hideous act. I don’t know the details of the hearing he participated in, or its outcome, but I do know of far too many cases where good fathers have been driven to despair by that court and its tendency to side with mothers over fathers regardless of the circumstances.
Nothing can excuse what this man seems to have done. But we’ve got to fix the system that is causing so much pain to good men.