A terrible news story out of Brisbane this week.
Eighteen month old twins found dead in a house. They had been dead for over a week and were decomposing - but the horror was that they had barely advanced beyond their birth weight. Neither nappy changes or meals were regular events - and they starved to death !
Obviously the person responsible will face court, but most likely a psychiatrist will find that there is a mental illness making that person unfit to plead. The usual outcome is a court imposed term in a mental institution - until the medical authorities deem that person is fit to return to society.
And that is where we have a problem. How many cases have we seen in the past where a person said to be suffering a mental illness has been a model patient, regularly taking the prescribed medication - and released back into the community with a glowing report ?
How many times have we read of such patients throwing away their medication once released, returning to mental instability - and repeating the original crime ?
Surely any person - male or female - who brings about the death of children by way of sheer criminal neglect should lose the right to bring further children into this world.
No doubt the civil liberties people will yell blue murder, but neutering such people would not be an unreasonable requirement of the courts. If deprivation of liberty is a punishment for crime then surely neutering is not a punishment but a safeguard to prevent further child atrocities.
In many cases it should be a basic requirement before any form of release is considered !
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