Posted on 02/09/2005 12:33:39 PM PST by Kennesaw
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.
Lock-up for life is a MUCH more expensive solution. Are you paying?
I agree with you. Forced sterilization concerns me as well. I do think the judge was way too lenient.
This approach does not involve the government deciding who can or cannot have children, until AFTER someone has had a child and killed or severely abused it. I have no problem with the government deciding that people who have done such things can't be allowed to have any more children. And the death penalty obviously would also have the effect of the governemnt preventing her from having any more children.
I'm with you. What this woman did has heinous, but the precedent it sets is worse still.
That's what I get for typing without My glasses, Mea Culpa!
Anyway, You should get the drift.
Your solution only changes the timing of the child's murder. Information doesn't change sheer evil.
I think this is clearly unconstitutional. (this is not a normative judgement, it's my understanding of the law)
For instance, I don't think you can't bargain away your First Amendment rights to get a shorter prison sentence. And the Supreme Court has found a similar (but non-textual) Constitutional right to procreate.
In fact, the Supreme Court has found that you can't even bargain away your right to monetary compensation for property taken by the state (Nollan v. California Coastal Commission). You can't even make an agreement with the government: "you let me get a permit to build up my coastal mansion, and I'll let you have a small strip of land for the public to use during the daytime as an easement")
Well, at least you didn't type LIBATION!........
"Just kill the b---- and be done with it! "
Aye.
"...I hate to see the government deciding who can and cannot have children."
I agree with you, because we all know the government will screw that up also. Knowing that, I hereby offer my services as a private citizen to make the decisions on who can and cannot have children.
I suppose that the innocent babies life is meaningless.
It is time women get comprable sentences to those men receive for the same crimes. No father who killed his child as she did, would get probabtion. Put this evil woman in prison for life with no parole and she'll have little luck in getting pregnant again. Feminists want equality with men, let's start with prison sentencing and then just watch the feminist scream and holler.
The only way I'd support forced sterilization is if we applied it to all registered Democrats...
It is about time that someone dealt with this problem with a solution that might just help! Child-murderers should NOT have another chance to kill a baby! The ACLU can just stuff it!
"5 years of probation for murder?? How about this - lock her up for the rest of her life, or at least the rest of her reproductive years. Problem solved."
I think we should just abort her. That way we don't have to pay for jail time or surgery.
Chiming in from Atlanta, with my two cents: This is a good thing.
Should sterilize women on welfare when they have more than two kids, also.
Yes; She should be shot.
If a woman will do this to her own child, why wouldn't she do it to a complete stranger's child?
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