Life term for wife who severed husband's penis

Was the judge a man?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22958512

I am not normally an advocate of violence, but I would like to take a knife to this cleric!

WTF has one type of crime got to do with another when it comes to sentencing?!

You are getting down to playground politics here.

The woman sounds like a dangerous psychopath. No normal person does that.

interesting contributions as always jo8.

Goodness knows what the woman had gone through in her life before she did this. Maybe she took away from him the thing that had caused her fear throughout her life - perhaps from earlier abuse as well as what she suffered from him.

Sorry if you can't grasp what I'm getting at Jess

Marelli. So you think this woman should be given love and understanding? I think she got the sentence society needs her to have. She will be considered, carefully, for parole in the future.

I don't think we know enough about the circumstances that drove her to do this, so I can't pass any judgement on her or her sentence.
No need to be so combative, jingle, we are all entitled to express our opinion.

Rather a harsh thing to do though .

"Rather a harsh thing to do"

#understatementofthecentury

Why do you use that hash symbol thingy, jingle?

I wouldn't take a knife or razor-blade to any - male or female. FGM is often practiced by mother and grandmothers - the perpetuation of a dreadful cultural act that is seen to make a young girl marriageable, and therefore acceptable in some societies.
Cutting off a penis isn't cultural, and not acceptable in any societies or for any reasons, but often amounts to the same thing. A causal effect of the immense distress done to girls and women by men who use their sexuality to harm, for whatever reason.
Education is needed. For men to realise they cannot control women for the purposes of their own sexuality, and for mothers and grandmothers to realise that continuing FGM contributes to this awful cyclical dilemma.

Custodial sentencing for both acts should be considered until such practices stop.

Shortening swearing to WTF doesn't mean you haven't used a nasty phrase JO8 - I would have thought that by this time of life you'd find a better way to express yourself. No matter the subject matter - hopefully GNHQ might make some sort of comment.

dorset?! (do you really think the people at HQ never swear themselves? in this day and age? )

I await their comments with interest.

Greatnan it's a Twitter thing (originally). It's quite commonly used on the internet.

From what I've read, it seems they are very close to bringing about the first prosecutions for that horrible FGM.

That's good to hear J, and about time.

Yes, jingle, I guessed it emanated from twitter, but what is it for? What does it add to your posts? We know why you use the crossing out device, but I can't see what you gain by this.

J08, I didn't say anything about the perpetrator of the crime being entitled to 'love and understanding'. No-one knows what this woman has already been through, do they, apart from the fact that she was abused earlier in her life, according to the report. Possibly not much support was given to her throughout her younger life - who knows?
Rightly or wrongly, how much baying for blood has there been when a sexual predator has carried out an awful crime? If the parents of a sexually abused child had been able to lay their hands on a knife when they first discovered what had happened, would they perhaps have wanted to carry out the same 'operation' on the predator?
Not right. It's wrong. But in the heat of the moment, when she's had enough? Who knows?

You don't need to worry your little head about it Greatnan.

Marelli I can understand someone hitting and perhaps going as far as to stab, but not that. That was contrived in cold blood. You Ca n't go round cutting bits off of people, no matter what they have done to you.

JO8 I have never seen GNHQ use a swear word on this site - what they do in the privacy of their own office/home is one thing publically another. Just because you feel it's 'this day and age' doesn't make it right. I'd just prefer not to see/hear it please. I always think resorting to swearing shows a lack of being able to express yourself properly.

My God Dorset! Can't you find something interesting to say?

You are trying to patronise me, jingle! Oh, well, nothing like having a new experience!

From penis dismemberment, to WTF to hashtags - you couldn't make it up.
So I'll just add a couple of