Ah I really appreciate that explanation, that does make sense to me.
The programs that I’ve seen where I’ve noticed these light sentences is “Deadly Women”, and it just floors me how light the sentences are considering some of these crimes.
Like this one girl, this story was made into a movie too starring Guy Pierce as the victim’s father, where this heavier girl was obsessed with a dancer that she baby sat for.
She tricked her and lead her to a violent, violent end for seemingly the purpose of killing her and becoming her. She is out of prison now as far as I know.
But anyway, I will also say that I have seen some crimes committed by these ladies in which they did receive much harsher sentences, like this one particular torture and abuse killing in England, so what you have said has shed some light on why this is, and I really appreciate that!
Thank you kindly ^^
She tricked her and lead her to a violent, violent end for seemingly the purpose of killing her and becoming her. She is out of prison now as far as I know.
Not yet. But she has now served her minimum non-parole period. It's been denied for the moment, and she will be in prison until at least the end of next year.
The is the Rachel Barber case (name of the murdered girl). The murderer's name is Caroline Reed Robertson.
Her sentence was quite light (Twenty years with a minimum non parole period of fourteen years) considering the crime, but that was largely because of her age. Under the law in most of Australia, somebody between the age of 18-21 is a 'Young Offender', and unless there is a compelling reason not to, it's assumed they can be rehabilitated - so she got the benefit of that assumption because she was only nineteen at the time of her crime.