Mom kicks son to death. Should she still receive alimony and custody?

Question

http://cbs3.com/local/local_story_131095232.html

Summary: A mother admitted to kicking her 14 year old son to death, yet after she spends her 30 months in jail (!), she will retain joint custody of the other child, and the father will still pay her over 3,000 dollars a MONTH in alimony. Is this is any way a just ruling? Is it indicative of a judicial bias against men and a willingness to downplay the crimes of violent women?

Any thoughts?

sophieb: Ya know, I KNEW someone was going to misread that and then accuse ME of misreading it. The article says she can apply to resume the over 3k a month alimony and ALSO force him to pay $400 on BACK alimony.

Also, it says the kicking led to the child's death. I'd call that "attributable" to the mother. Please read carefully before accusing others of failing at it.

Answer 1

Yes.

Is what the misandrist feminists would say.

My answer: she should spend way more than just 3 years in jail. WAY MORE! Custody should also be given to the father and SHE should have to pay child support.

Obviously it's because a lot of men are raised to be ''pussy-whipped'', or that woman are ''sugar & spice, and everything nice'' which is untrue. Not to mention the fact that most men try to protect women.

I don't get how a mother could do that to her own teenage son...

Answer 2

She should have gotten more than 30 months, a lot more time. I didn't see that it was a jury trial, and maybe that woudl have made the difference. And the child's death was not directly attributable to the mother but I didn't see in the article just exactly what the child died from.

Well you say the father "will" pay her oer $3,000 a month but he's not doing that, in fact he's paying $400 because he's strapped for funds. This is difficult to determine if you're not right there in the courtroom and seeing all the facts. If he's paying that high of alimony then he must have some very good job.

A woman is paid alimony usually because they have no skills. And it "seems" that if this woman had been home that long with those children and wasn't working then she may have some disability, and that may be the reason why the alimony and why she didn't get more time. If they are wealthy then they would not want to aire their dirty laundry in saying in any article that she was disabled (mentallly, physically or even just on medication maybe like for post partum depression or something else). To bring that out in an article might be disastrous to their family or any family. Something tells me that it "might" be illegal to say that in an article as well, but I'm not really sure.

Answer 3

If she killed her son by kicking him to death she deserves the death sentence, not a 2 and a half year sentence and a free pass to joint custody of her other child, the other child should be given to the father and she should be dead without getting any money from the father, man or woman it doesn't matter murder is murder and justice should be served. And I don't see justice in that. A biased court should not exist. If I was the father I would fight that, I'd fight to gain total custody and remove all her custody of my other child it doesn't belong in the hands of a murderer.

Answer 4

H**L NO!

At first I thought the 'alimony' you were referring to was in essence a property settlement and said to myself the court was right- BUT I was wrong it indeed is alimony-

If I was this gentleman I would appeal. I would even contribute to a fund to help him pay legal expenses.

Reality:

It may be two separate legal questions but the purpose of alimony is make the transtion to single life more equitable for a period of time. She doesn't need alimony cause her room and board are being paid for for 30 months anyway. At this time nothing can make this situation equitable now, he has lost a child. Maybe this guy should file a wrongful death lawsuit as well as appeal.

Answer 5

The judge is smart. It is clearly two separate issues, the violent crime and the overdue alimony. The violent crime was sentenced, and probably that sentence was too light, but it has absolutely nothing to do with a previously existing alimony settlement.

Sensationalizing the case does not change the law.

You have a legitimate complaint about the 30 month sentence for "assault" since the attack resulted in death. I honestly don't understand how a parent can batter a child like that. I think the charge should have been manslaughter, which would have carried a more severe sentence.

Answer 6

That is disgusting- she should never be allowed to have a child again. If that situation did ever end up happening (where the father had to pay money for his abusive wife to hurt/kill another child) then that is just one more ridiculous case where freedom of choice/speech won over actually choosing the ethical thing. God Bless America.

Answer 7

Why wasn't she put in jail, giving the father full custody, she's a murderer. And she admitted to killing their son, why isn't CPS involved and why doesn't the father have the other child. There are so many more important questions about this other than should she still get alimony. But the is a wtf kinda story I have to admit.

Answer 8

If it was up to me, the botch wouldn't get out of prison. I'm sick of all these *******, both men and women getting off with light sentences after killing their kids. They had a man on a talk show a while back sentenced to five after shaking his baby to death. What feminists are dismayed at her going to prison?

Answer 9

This reminds me of the definition of chutzpah. A man kills his mother and father and throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. I don't believe this woman should be allowed to be around children at all.

Answer 10

My thoughts? The woman should have been given the death sentence (or, if state law didn't allow that, life without parole), no custody, and no alimony.

Answer 11

The father should get sole custody of the kids (hello, unstable mother) and he should not have to pay her alimony. Sorry, but she ruined it for herself.