First of all, I don't live in your country.
Second of all, if you want teachers who believe teenagers who commit crimes are beyond help, I pity you. We are not talking about mature adults here with mature judgement. We're talking about kids who haven't got there yet. We can't save all of them. We can save some of them. I've seen it happen.
You are NOT a good teacher, if you think there would ever be any kind of excuse or rehabilitation deserving of such a wicked, despicable crime against the innocent. Too bad you would have a totally different view if the victim was your own child or grandchild.
When people have abused kids I care about, I have taken action to have those people punished and stopped. I'd have had to step in to stop kids being seriously abused and I could have happily killed the scum responsible at the time. I'm not soft on child abuse, and I think those who abuse children should be punished. But I wasn't involved in the decision as to whether or not this woman was punished.
Nope, I wouldn't want you ever teaching my kids anything. There really IS a difference between good and evil, right and wrong. You, my friend, probably blur that line in other areas of your life as well.
I know there's a difference between good and evil. I've seen evil first hand. I wonder how many murdered kids you've held in your arms. I just wonder.
But a person can change. And if the 'Him' in your user name means anything at all to you, you should know that. That woman should have never seen the light of the day the rest of her natural life, after commiting that crime. She gave up her right to her own freedom the moment she chose to cut up that precious little girl.
but you're missing the point, yet again. The point is whether she can "change". Anyone who knows of God's redemptive work knows that is absolutely possible. But that still does not remove the consequence, and her forfeiting her right to live a free life in society. do you really think a 19 year old person can't make rational decisions? That's pretty insulting. In THIS country, that is an adult, and it's old enough to know what she did was wicked and perverse.
Should she be given another opportunity to live in a free society? Absolutely not. And should she be rewarded for anything she's done since? Of course not. That's absurd.
And by the way....I have adopted four battered, abused, neglected and violated siblings whose life of shame and degradation would turn your stomach. I live with the results of evil done to my children every day.
No 2nd chances for evil perpertrated against children.