Former insurance worker Marie Black, 34 (top), from Norwich, was
told she would not be eligible for parole for at least 12 years after she
orchestrated the abuse of five young children over six years. Black, her
ex-husband hospital porter Jason Adams, 43, (bottom right) and former boyfriend
coach driver Michael Rogers, 53, (bottom left) were found guilty of a string of
abuse charges. Both Rogers and Adams were sentenced to 24 years and made subject
to sexual harm prevention orders, as a judged described Black as 'utterly
depraved'. Mail.
I do not know all the ins and outs of this trial but I
might permit myself a small wager here that there has been an element of sexism
in the sentencing. I do not complain about the 24 years for Rogers and Adams but
I fail to see how the 'ochestrator' of this abuse can possibly escape with half
the sentence of the others.
In sentencing in British courts, where there is a man
committing crime with a youth - the former inevitably receives the harsher
disposal. To me, there is far too much evidence today that for 'youth' you can
substitute 'woman'.
