25-to-Life for Edmonton child killer
In Edmonton today Clifford Sleigh was sentenced to life in prision with no chance of parole for 25 years for the killing of a six-year-old girl in 1992. I don't know about anyone but I think it's about time that a life sentence meant more than ten or twelve years in jail. I get so tired of seeing someone who kills another human being going to jail for twelve years...which in Canada means that that person will be paroled after 3-5 years. Interestingly enough this case is that of an aboriginal man who killed a white girl. There are numerous cases of white men who kill or abuse aboriginals and get lighter sentences. The Pamela George trial is one example of this. I am all about making an example of Clifford Sleigh, and agree that he deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail, but because of what he did, not because of what colour he is.


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