Originally posted by: Don
The perps have been sentenced to life in prison.
Ref: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In crimes like this, poor old DonDiego yearns for the good old days when corporal punishments were still an option available to thoughtful judges.
Corporal punishments by parents and teachers was definitly an option in my growing up days. Just the threat of it was enough. Mom's glare and stern lectures were enough. God help us if a note was sent home from a teacher. I think boys sometimes got the principal's paddle on occasion.
And try as we might to escape the agreed upon boundaries mandated, they pretty much knew where we were most of the time, and again God help us if we violated those boundaries and/or lied about something. Now I realize that 'parenting', as they call it these days, is a holy terror of a job that requires constant vigilance and following through on behavioral expectations of us little darlings, to prepare us for the next steps of life in which we were expected to follow in their footsteps as far as being honest productive adults. Had we ever, in anybody's wildest imagination, done anything remotely close to those pictured above, our parents would not be sobbing and saying "but he/she is a good boy/girl." But then, again, it wasn't even going to be in the cards.
If that sounds oversimplified, I can vouch for the fact that not one of us, nor any of our growing up crowds, had the slightest notion that it was OK to harm or steal from another person in any way, whether we 'liked' them or not.