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Yes.  I think anyone who decides to violate a child should be locked away forever and ever, amen.

The fact that she remained with her husband for several years after the incident just shows that this is a person who either experiences no guilt or who has such poor judgment as to be a danger to society.  If this were a man who had molested or raped a little boy, we wouldn't even be asking this question.

Fuck yeah I do.

"Kelly Lumadue, seen above, was barely legal herself when she had sex with a five-year-old boy."

"Barely legal"?!?!? What it the age of consent where you live, 20?

She RAPED a boy. Women tend to get a free pass when it comes to crimes like this.  What if it was a man who had raped a girl (or boy) at the behest of his wife? Bet you'd be calling for life in prison or worse.

Um, yeah.  Unless she can prove that he, say, forced her at gunpoint then held her captive for the next several years until he died of cancer.

By saying "barely legal," you imply that her age at the time is some sort of an excuse.  Age might be an excuse if she was, say, twelve at the time.  Twenty-one is plenty old enough to drive a car, sign up for the military, get married, own a house, possess $250k in college debt and, oh yeah, resist sex with toddlers.

Absolutely not. Why should someone who commits murder be allowed to go free (they are not automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole) and someone who molests a child serve life? The boy who may or may not be scarred, is still alive. While child abuse is a heinous crime, it is definitely not equal to murder. As I don't believe in capitol punishment (if it's illegal to kill why should the government be allowed to do it? If it's wrong to kill, then it's always wrong to kill.) there must be a scale of evilness. If life in prison is the ultimate punishment, then being convicted of child sexual abuse should be given a lighter sentence.  

I think mandatory sentencing in general is a bad idea in general.

What she did was not worse than killing the child, though it comes close.  If there aren't gradations between homicidal and non-homicidal crimes, it will create an incentive for criminals facing death or life with an incentive to kill their victims after they are done violating them.  So whereas I personally think this evil person merits this sentence, I think it's bad public policy to make rape of anyone a mandatory life-without-parole offense.

As far as I'm concerned, that sentence is cruel and unusual punishment.  It sounds like that lady needs a mental health evaluation, and a good long course of treatment.  In any case, we really have far too little to go on to come up with a just course of action.