The offender should immediately apologize in a public forum and go into rehab.....All will be forgiven and forgotten.....
I am waiting for the lawyers and media (post arrest) to push for understanding, compassion, etc for the individual. Little ol lady - Nah, screw her....she's on her way out anyway. We need to "understand" the offender, look back to his childhood and find out if someone may have spanked him. maybe its PTSD from all the project corner beer swillin and dice game fights....
Now back in the day the guy would of been found out and buried alive, beat senseless or found in an alley with his skull broke in 3. But today - anyone that did that would get a harsher sentence and go to the klink in a heartbeat. The world is upside down and inside out and nobody is gonna fix that until you start whoopin on lawyers and media folks. After all that is established - that you'll get whooped if you play this damn sympathy for the offender card immediately and your take is ridiculous - then we can go back to beatin the livin sh*t out of bad guys.