Not Guilty? Really? He committed an assault and battery upon a child - a problem child, but still a child. This verdict was not justice.
He’d already plead guilty to a charge of inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm on the child. This trial was on more serious charges (including attempted murder).
The Land of Eng does not make sense these days.
Gotta agree with you.
There has to be an appropriate level of response. Darn near killing the kid is not an appropriate level of response.
Look folks, every one of us has something that would amount to diminished capacity.
1. My wife and I argued and I was in a terrible state, unable to control myself.
2. I just got fired, and this person just happened along.
3. I just returned to work from a stress related leave, and snapped.
4. I’m not able to meet my bills this month, a collections agent was mean to me, I snapped.
5. I had a hostess twinkie, and I had a sugar rush.
Folks, attempted murder is not excusable. If it were, then every one of us would be subjected to near death experiences involving physical attack and severe life-long injuries.
This teacher should have served two to four years and been barred from being a teacher in the future. It’s obviously not his calling.
As for a bad kid being a good excuse, wow, that sure opens up the field doesn’t it. I dare say a pretty handsome percentage of us have been problem kids at one time or another.
“This verdict was not justice.”
Seems fair to me. The real problem is that liberals have taken away any effective discipline methods that would have been available to head off this kind of class room rebellion. 40 years ago this kid would have had his ass paddled with a cricket bat. Also, notice the lack of a father in this kids life, no discipline at home or school means that this kid is headed for prison in a few short years.
Talk to the Jury Nullification group. "Justice" is whatever 12 random people say it is. The law be damned.
The teacher should bring charges against the students for bullying that drove him to it. Instead of killing himself over it he beat the POS who was doing the bullying.
Hey, this is the UK, where folks who dare to defend themselves against criminals can go to jail.
I’m glad to see that this idiocy allowed a teach to abuse the little scumbags disrupting his classroom. At least one good think came of it.