The outcome of the daycare worker murder case on Wednesday is reminiscent of another similar matter less than a year ago, as well as several others, which seems to point to a pattern of undue leniency in the court system in matters involving the violent deaths of women and perhaps lethargy by public prosecutors, who, it appears, do anything but prosecute.
In the just concluded case, a Kuru Kuru man was jailed for 15 years for killing his reputed wife, daycare worker Lisa French, who was brutally stabbed to death on September 2, 2004 as she made her way home. The man, Junior Barton, who had been indicted for murder, pleaded guilty to manslaughter well into the trial, and after the court allowed to be admitted into evidence a caution statement in which he said he had choked French.
