7 years? I would think she would be a lifer.

Oh, she should be sterilized as well.

Maybe I could see it if she got 30 years and agreed to intense therapy, but no way 7 years is enough. Yeah, my gut says she should get life.

Not excusing it, just thinking perhaps that factor was a mitigating circumstance to the sentence? Dunno.

Children are seen as products to be exploited in child porn or worse. They grow up and exploit their own children. It's all they know.

7 years might be enough to break the cycle since her child was so young and will be too old for the video trade when she gets out and, at 11, getting too old to pimp out to child predators. I'd rather see her in the can for 10 years, personally, since that would ensure her son would be too old to continue abusing when she's out. The classic pattern for female child sexual predators is to stop as soon as the kid sprouts pubic hair.

I know what it does to kids who grow up with it. One of my good friends a long time ago was a brilliant man who could just never cope with it and who died of alcoholism by the age of 40. When I think of what he might have been had his mother not been a sexual freak, it makes me sick.

I hope she gets help in prison. I hope the kid gets help while she's gone. I hope the cycle is broken in that family permanently. I hope...

...but how people have sex with a toddler, and why anyone wants to see it, escapes me completely.

That's no law of nature that I learned in any of my 3 degress (biology, zoology, pop bio/evolutionary ecology)

So not surprising those degrees didn't help with an explanation!

Seven years seems like a pretty light sentence.

And if it had been a man doing this, he would have gotten thirty years. Justifiably so.

Women seem to get much lighter sentences for sex crimes, even when they are as horrendous as anything any man could possibly do.

for men and women, unless they tag on felony assault or kidnapping.

That still doesn't change the fact that women are treated sympathetically (even when they deserve no sympathy, such as the subject of the OP) and men are treated (properly) like monsters.

I lived in WA state during the whole Mary Kay Letourneau crap, and I remember it well. Some people actually thought of it as some sort of love story.

despite your assertions otherwise.
But it seems like the kids are actually your concern at all, it's all about the boy vs girl fixation. Well.... have fun with that!

that sentences for rape of a child are light. I was disappointed when the SCOTUS said that a perp couldn't get the DP for that crime, you had to kill the child to merit that.

I strongly want to see BOTH genders treated equally and harshly for this most heinous of crimes.

7 years is a travesty

Hope that child is totally protected from her and her pervert brother.

These people have forfeited the privilege of ever being around children in my opinion.

That's why she should have gotten life.

I'm usually anti-death penalty, but here... I'm just saying.

at 25, she will still be able to have more children after she is released!! What a disgusting POS!

for advocating the rare cases where sterilization should be employed.

Yes, I think there are some people evil enough that they shouldn't have the chance to have more kids.

This woman obviously has mental problems that should disqualify her from being a mother.

... our heads around this kind of crime. I certainly agree, she indeed got off way too easy.

She got off way too easy.