RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoS.African woman gets life for selling 6-year-old daughterwww.bangkokpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down12
arrow-up1166arrow-down1external-linkS.African woman gets life for selling 6-year-old daughterwww.bangkokpost.comRandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·7 days agoThe judge added her name to the child protection register. Isn’t that a bit superfluous if she’s going to be in prison for the rest of her life? Then again lots of sentences don’t make sense.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·7 days agoI guess it’s in case the sentence gets shortened or she gets parole. “Life” doesn’t always turn out to be life
minus-squareRouxBru@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days agoUnfortunately “life” doesn’t mean “untill death” in SA
The judge added her name to the child protection register. Isn’t that a bit superfluous if she’s going to be in prison for the rest of her life?
Then again lots of sentences don’t make sense.
I guess it’s in case the sentence gets shortened or she gets parole. “Life” doesn’t always turn out to be life
Unfortunately “life” doesn’t mean “untill death” in SA