the teen aged mothers were offered help all the time they refused the help. All they were worried about when they next party. They knew what they were doing when they left the kids home alone . I just wish the punishment would be worse they will be out on parole in 10 to 15 years

Please tell us more. What could we have done that you couldn’t have done?

Could we have stopped them from having children before they were ready and able to care for them? How?

Would they have listened to us if we told them not to leave children unattended in a building heated by an open oven?

Should we have hired a babysitter to look after their children for them so they wouldn’t have to bother?

Did we father the children and then abandon them into the hands of child mothers?

Gripe at us for our failings all you want. I accept that it is all OUR fault. And then tell us how we could have stopped the horrible deaths of these children.

David accepting blame
for actions of others

Once again, concurrent means the three sentences will be served at the same time, 25 years maximum. The others are right that it means you are getting the same punishment for three crimes you would get for one crime, so it makes the other two seem like freebies or you can consider each day as punishment for three things.

One benefit of concurrent sentences is that if two are thrown out for whatever reason, the third will still be in place.

And, no, they are not trying to balance the scales of two big lives for three little lives. The judges are just trying to live within our system of laws. (I’d like to call it system of justice, but some days “justice” just doesn’t seem to fit.) Anyhoo, this gives them both twenty five years to consider their lives and attitudes and for someone else to question the statistics and punishments involved.

David for The Resurrection