Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.jone-system.com!mmcatv.co.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-feed1.de1.concert.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Killer father gets 5 years for son's brutal death Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:45:10 -0500 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <410694A6.3020501@yahoo.com> References: <73fde4f0.0407260927.49162396@posting.google.com> <4105AE44.5030509@yahoo.com> <001cg09a86ln1tp9u278dbp3t9m5lb36dh@4ax.com> <5tfcg0da028u1j3n4n744b7v12s53br0h9@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 2jJl103kuE6lO7WqQ3NFjgbT6rHHRupVUGLfChL12KcgL7hVBk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:15787 Raj Feridun wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:29:46 +0900, Michael Cash > wrote: > > >>> He accidentally picked his son up and bodyslammed him, thus >>> murdering him. >> > >> Yeah, I got that part. But the prime component of a murder charge >> is intent (殺意). No intent = no murder. So was he actually convicted >> on the charge of murder? Or was the use of the word "murder" in the >> article attributable to some dumbass reporter who doesn't know the >> fucking difference? > > > No, clearly his intent was to get the little runt to shut the hell up > and he achieved this goal quite nicely by murdering him. > The thing that constantly 'gets me' about these stories isn't so much that it happens; child abuse has always been around and probably always will. And I'm also not sure if the US would have been more or less strict on the guy. But still... five years in prison for killing someone, your own child at that, is just ridiculous. John W.