His_4_Ever
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It's cases like this that make me lose faith in our justice system. Someone would get more jail time if they stole a loaf of bread. Our system is so backwards. Those people who deserve death or life sentences get slapped on the hand, while those who've committed simple misdemeanors get life sentences. When is the punishment going to start to match the crime? I feel stricter punishments need to be handed out concerning he harming of another human being. I think the perpetrator should have the most miserable incarceration possible. I can't believe this man's involvement was considered passive.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A judge on Friday spared a man from prison time for his role in the dehydration death of a toddler who was deprived of food and liquids for at least a week.
Despite criticism from the victim's mother, who cried throughout the sentencing hearing, New Haven Superior Court Judge Richard Damiani sentenced Robert Patterson to five years' probation in the death of 23-month-old Amari Jackson.
Charges of manslaughter, cruelty and and risk of injury to a minor are pending against Robert Patterson's sister Sharon Patterson, who police say was primarily responsible for the little boy's death in February.
Hamden police say Sharon Patterson deprived the boy of liquids for at least seven days because he wet a bed. They say she also left cups laced with hot sauce around her apartment to teach him a lesson about drinking from other people's glasses.
Prosecutor Michael Pepper said that although Robert Patterson witnessed the abuse, his role was, at worst, "arguably passive."
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. But it seems that society has put animals over human beings made in Gods image 
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