Editorial: Adult crime demands adult court and time
What is it about Canada -- and B.C. in particular -- that produces so many sick, evil or perverted monsters?
Most Canadians can name them from memory, including such horrors as Clifford Olson, Darren Hueneman, Atif Rafay, Sebastian Burns, Paul Bernardo, Karla Homolka, Kelly Ellard, Warren Glowatski and more recently Robert Pickton, Russell Williams, and the two as-yet-unnamed teenage boys behind the premeditated murder, rape and defilement of poor Kimberly Proctor.
We may not have the worst record for these kinds of crimes around the world, but the level of serial murder, killings linked to greed or sexual violence, not to mention the constant body count from the drug trade is a huge concern.
The recent case of Kimberly Proctor adds another level or depravity due to the young age of the killers, the fact they acted in tandem and the apparently complete lack of conscience they displayed.
The Crown says it will be seeking to have the pair raised to adult court, which is what should happen in the case given the brutality of the crime and the relatively mature age of the murders, 16 and 18.
Raising them to adult court will allow the longest, although still inadequate prison terms, as well making their names public. Canadians demand and deserve nothing less.
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