“Outrage Over [Canadian] Ruling That Mom Who Strangled Daughter Won’t Be Jailed”
July 21st, 2010 admin
(Eugene Volokh) The Vancouver Sun reports. The judge found the mother guilty of manslaughter and not murder, which in context sounds like a judgment that she did not intent to kill her 14-year-old daughter. But the mother’s conduct still seems appalling enough to merit serious punishment, even in the absence of an intent to kill: Magomadova was charged after the deadly incident at their home the morning of Feb. 26, 2007, after [her daughter] Aminat refused to go to court to be sentenced for assaulting a female teacher at her school. The devout Muslim mother claimed Aminat came at her with a knife in her sewing room, where she prayed several times a day. She said she…
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