Philer
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Just as I would have predicted
This story was no surprise to me at all. Women being discriminated against once again, this time in Oklahoma. Explain why women should receive harsher punishment than men for not stopping violence against their children or what's even worse, for not stopping violence against their children perpetrated by men who are treated more leniently than they are. Of course an apologist for the criminal justice system of Oklahoma tries to blame procedural differences but the end results still tell the story. Criminal justice systems get what they want and they can rectify inequities when they want to. Oklahoma's CJS obviously didn't want to. It was perfectly content with allowing women to receive harsher punishments than men for related crimes that were less serious.
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Eighteen years ago, Oklahoma adopted a law designed to stop child abuse. It's commonly known as "Failure to Protect" and on paper, it makes perfect sense. Any parent or guardian who knows a child is being abused and fails to protect the child can be charged with a felony and sent to prison.
But in practice, Oklahoma's courts and prosecutors have treated women differently than men under the failure to protect law.
We found more than a dozen cases in which mothers who were never found to have abused their children were given much harsher punishments than the men who did. Half of those women were victims of abuse themselves.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/failure-to-protect-oklahoma-child-abuse-law-60-minutes-2020-06-07/
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6/9/2020, 8:23 pm
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