I am with you mostly Arsenic. Not sure I agree about what is best for the other children or even whether that should be taken into account when sentencing.
Though to me it seem an appropriate sentence.
I think it would have been very difficult to prove it was premeditated murder.
However I have some agreement with opinions like these :- Would you call for compassion if this was a man?
I do wonder what this thread would have been like if had been the father not the mother who had killed him.
I suspect not as many people would be compassionate if it was a father.
a lot of people think like that and find it harder to think about a mother killing their child than a Father.
Maybe because people find it so hard to think about that they can't imagine a mother abusing and killing their child so they need to find reasons why she did and try har der to find these reasons and be more compassionate.
Like a PP said though all case are different and should be sentenced on their own merits. None are exactly the same.
In reality, mothers usually get longer sentences than fathers.
Do they??? In reality I think this statement is wrong. I would like to know where you found the information for this reality. Everything I have read points to males getting quite longer sentences than females for the same or comparable crimes. All crimes. Nearly always.
Especially when crimes against a child. There many reasons for this, but it seems the willingness to look further for reasons, extenuating circumstances and understanding for females is one.
The effect a sentence has on the offenders children also seems to be taken more into consideration whennthe offender is female.
Not saying it is wrong. Just pointing it out.