Unreal.. Wint should have been put away long ago. Three stabbings...that we know about! Plus beating a gf and threatening another with killing her and her infant cause he was "good with a knife"
Wint was convicted of third degree assault and served 89 days in prison for both attacks on Babcock.
“I don’t understand why they would only give him that little time for stabbing me," Babcock said.
After his release in 2007, Wint was sentenced to 10 months in jail for stabbing another man. When he completed his sentence, Wint returned to Maryland in 2008.
Outrageous, but just another stat. The list is appallingly long of those who committed violent offenses, leaving victims half-dead, or dead, kidnappings, rapes, attempted murders, and served little time or got the mandatory sentence only to come out again to commit the final atrocities, sometimes multiples. This is not new, not a result of a particular administration, or recent tolerance for violence. I could document, but what's the point?
We need a real and dramatic overhaul.
Our current system does not do enough to protect society and does plenty to clog courtrooms, flood prisons, disrupt families, encourage more criminality. In my state, eight years the max for rape. Don't get me started on the social/medical/ psychiatric problems corrections must now act as ware houses for.
Wint had shown that he was a serious and on-going threat to society. He should have had only once chance to commit a violent, brutal, completely unjustifiable crime. But what is ironic, had his victim died as a result of his offense, he eventually would have been on parole, and with such a disparity in resources allotted for the pre and post correction system, vs. imprisonment, he'd probably not have had adequate supervision to prevent the ultimate horror he was capable of.
JMO time-out.
