Woman who killed baby ordered sterilized

Published on: 02/09/05 A Fulton County judge has ordered sterilization for a woman who killed her 5-week-old daughter.

Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes said Carisa Ashe, 34, has 90 days to have the tubal ligation that would prevent her from conceiving.

Ashe had been charged with murder in the Dec. 16, 1998, death of Destiny Ashe. An autopsy indicated Destiny had been shaken and hit so badly her brain swelled and hemorrhaged.

After two days of trial on the murder charge, Ashe pleaded guilty Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter, according to the district attorney's office.

Barnes gave Ashe five years on probation and said she must have a tubal ligation within 90 days or prosecutors can reinstate the murder charge.

There are as many types of murder as there are human circumstances; there is a gradation of morality in the act of which even abortion is not uniform. There are women out there, for example, who basically use abortion as a form of birth control, having one abortion after another.

Thank you for your response. I totally agree with you on these observations.

I do not object to compelling her to undergo a surgical proceeder that prevents her from continuing her barbaric disregard of life.

Here's where I have a couple of questions; namely, what is wrong with the state putting this mother on trial for the murder of her child? Isn't that what the law and justice demand? I wonder what authority the judge had to give this woman this strange choice between a trial for murder and sterilization? The reason I ask is that a trial and a conviction and an execution of this woman would do no more than promote justice. Her execution would be a punishment due her which is proportionate to her crime, which by upholding justice, would protect the common good. Among other benefits, her execution would treat not only her, but her victim as well, as persons, i.e., made in the image of God. The sentencing of this judge does none of these things and is bizarre to me because once you get rid of the question of justice and start treating criminals as something less than persons who are morally responsible for their actions, they simply becomes the object of experiments in a crazy "Clockwork Orange" type of world where there is no human responsibility's and therefore no human dignity.

Cordially,

This sentence is appalling. A person kills someone, the judge looks closer finds it is a woman, and that she killed her daughter, so...oh! This isn't a killer! This is a child killer. We'll just end her potential production of possible victims. That's justice!

I should note. Lets say the killer is a man, a father. Tell me what judge would give an equal sentence for an equal crime? I don't believe it has ever happened. On the other hand this is not the first time a woman has been let off admitting she killed her children. It is remarkable. Everyone wants equality, everyone wants justice, but then somehow bs like this is tolerated. It is remarkable.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.