[Ammi]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Thank you Mock.
WORDS are a powerful tool and can be dangerous.

If anyone has prejudices, who then spout out those prejudices publicly, even in print too
Which if in any way can be construed as inciting or wanting harm done to others, like this lady CHOSE to post.
Then indeed, in my view, words should have consequences.

Actually setting out to post PUBLICLY vile and dangerous words, (in these times), with planned wording made before finally posting.
Then definitely that needs to be dealt with and SHOULD in my view be a crime too.

…I do agree with you, Joey…that words can have much weight and much responsibility, especially in this current world of social media escalation/misinformation etc …and I do feel at the time those words were said in this case…?…that there was an escalating highly volatile situation ongoing in many areas of the country…but I’m very, very conflicted about the value of the sentence now and the consideration of a system to consider remaining time to be served as a ‘suspended’…which would still be something set that would hopefully deter from re-offending …I think also because in my work life, I’ve been familiar with two cases that involved a parent serving prison time…I know the impact on the child of these things and that it’s something that isn’t just ‘punishing’ the separated parent…that’s an emotional aspect, I realise that…on a more practical level…a child and family will have to be given a lot of social services care through this from many agencies and much counselling, I would think…definitely for her daughter…so for a service already drained of finances…?…it’s something to consider as well that some of Lucy’s sentence may be better served on a suspended/non custodial basis…which then won’t inevitably use up a huge portion of very sparse budget…