Yep, I totally get it - some of the knee-jerk hostility I'm reading on this post is kinda disturbing.

I have mixed feelings about it, to tell you the truth, if the parent wasn't abusive. I teach students with disabilities, and my district used to allow whoever the child was living with to sign the if the parent was absent or incarcerated, but no longer. If a parent is incarcerated, they can't sign documents and the…

A fantastic earful, please do not apologise for it.

Sentencing in the US isn't that different; break into your ex's house, tie her up, rape and almost murder her? Sentenced to 15 years, can be released at 8 for good behavior.

I'm referring to parents of the original victim - so I would say it's likely an equal/ equalish proportion of male/female victims. The story linked to below is the one that immediately popped into my mind - but domestic violence goes beyond just the victim-abuser and frequently friends, families and bystanders are…

I've never really understood why attempted murder and completed murder are treated differently. He's kind of just lucky that she didn't die. It's like "oh, you really sucked at that murdering thing. We'll knock off half your sentence for not getting it right." All the same intent and actions. It's just odd. Punishing…

Ah, the old "He didn't inflict a potentially fatal wound to kill her, just to ugly her" defense.

I'm sure you meant to add "physically" as a qualifier because she was brutalized for seven hours, while her kids were in the fucking house. He beat her with dumbbells. Suffocated her with a pillow. He slit her throat. And then left his kids with their dying mother.

Absolute bullshit.

These were my thoughts exactly. Fine, he has parental rights - can social services not act as an intermediary here? I am pretty sure she must have a case worker considering. Also, why does her dad have to be put at risk? This seems so poorly thought out.

Because astonishingly he wasn't convicted of trying to murder her. From The Telegraph (a mildly better pace to give your clicks than the Daily Mail) (bolding mine):

In SC, backwards as we are, you can terminate parental rights for an incarcerated parent.

!!! Do they not have PO boxes in Britain? There is no excuse for exposing her family to this risk.

Fucking vile. I'm not one to advocate violence, but I'd be lying if I said the thought of this guy being routinely beaten in prison upset me in the slightest.

Totally. I would absolutely NOT be comfortable with this guy knowing where my dad lives. Why can't it be mailed from a lawyer's office or something? Hopefully dad moves after he's released. I sure as hell would. Not that it's fair. But I would.

He probably will get some type of visitation rights. One of the major reasons I didn't get an order of protection during my divorce is that my ex still gets a right to be a dad. All I could see happen from OFP would be pissing him off to the point of no return and because of our kiddo - he would still have a right to…

I know, right? Why does he need to know what they look like? So he can hunt them down and finish the job later? UGH.

Seriously. What the fuck is this shit?

This is so fucked up on so many levels, not the least of reasons being that there is no regard for the CHILDRENS' safety in all of this.

It is egregious enough that they aren't considering her, but even if we set that aside for a second, how could it possibly be emotionally healthy for those children to be contacted…

This dude only got 9 years as punishment for trying to kill someone and he gets pics of her children? Oh hell no. Hell. No. This is terrifying. Is he going to get visitation after his release too? I think your parental rights kind of end at throat slitting.