Lets pretend play Judge. If you were the Judge over this case how would you sentence these people?
NOTE: I would never do anything like this, nor am I or anyone I know in a situation like this. I am just very curious.
Ok. Say there is a Young Teen who’s family beats them and other things on a weekly basis. The ‘mother’ and ‘siblings’ (2 brothers, 1 sister) doing the actions, with 1 of the brothers playing 80% or so of the sibling involvement (this one is 16-17), and goes out to the holding place nightly to punch and berate YT. 2 other siblings are involved in ways such as hitting YT when told to by the ‘mother’, and bringing YT back out to their holding place. It has been going on for a year or so because the YT doesn’t think anyone will believe them if they were to tell and is never hit on the face so marks can be covered up.
The father is aware of what goes on, but doesn’t try to stop it / leaves the room when it’s happening, but on the other hand will sometimes bring medical supplies out to YT to clean out a wound.
Some ‘other things’ are:
Keeps them chained up out of the house for most of the year (inside in the unheated basement during coldest months)
Doesn’t feed them properly.. food brought out has been tampered with / is ******** or something else done it in front of YT.
Not allowed to bathe / be loose from the chain hardly ever.
Tools used to beat/cut/burn/injure YT are fists / feet/ bats/ knives / cigarettes / razors/ belts / anything available really.
Breaking YT’s limbs and not bring them in for medical attention.
Not buy them new clothes
YT is still allowed to go to school, though and the school tries to get involved but YT won’t tell them anything. They make a call home about what they think is going on. YT knows what’s going to happen is going to be bad, so YT leaves a note in a teachers mail box.
When YT gets home they are beaten severely and one thing leads to another until the ‘mother’ and the most involved ‘brother’ decided to burn the ‘worthless sack of crap’ so the brother goes to get the gas can while the mother goes to get some matches. The YT is too badly beaten to get up and run away, so is still there AND ALIVE when the ‘mother’ and ‘sibling’ come back out and douse them in gasoline and set them on fire.
The 2 other siblings are nearby and don’t try to stop them. The father is inside watching TV.
During this time the teacher checks his mailbox and finds the note and being as he was the one to go to the higher up school officials he calls 911 and tells them to go over there. The police roll up as YT is being lit on fire and are able to put out YT so they are still alive. The police see the ‘brother’ pouring the gas and the ‘mother’ lighting the match and dropping it onto YT.
YT lives and in the hospital for a long, long time obviously. Would the police take a statement from YT or would YT have go to court?
So basically this is what each person does:
Father: ignores what is happening, but sometimes brings would cleaners / maybe food scraps out to YT
Older Teen Brother: Does whatver ‘mother’ says and more beyond what she instructs on his own.
Mother: Is orcistator and abuser
Younger Older Teen Brother: Beats YT when instructed by ‘mother’. If hesitant is threatened to get the same treatment as YT.
Younger Sister: Same as Younger Older Brother, but seems to take some pleasure out of beating YT.
What would the sentencing for each person be?
execute them all even the father for ignoring the situation
YT would not actually have to go to court, but it would be very helpful.
If I were judge the father would get 15 years, he knew and did nothing to stop it.
Older Teen Brother would get charged as an adult and have to spend 27 years in prison.
Mother would get life.
YOTB would get sent to a youth facility for six months and then foster care(unless some family comes forward to take him in)
Younger sister would be in a juvenile facility until she is 21.
The one to get the most time would be mother, as she is the basic instigator of the whole thing and has general control of her other children. The YTs siblings can basically say at some point that mom ‘made’ them do it, as a defense. In order to get mother to do more time, officials may even give siblings immunity in order for them to testify against mother. Charges of neglect may also be filed against dad but he too can simply claim he was abused and brainwashed by controling mother.
To get down to exactly how much time anyone would do is nearly impossible since each one would bring up their own excuses for defense (even mother). None of it matters though, as YT is to suffer with all they have gone through for the rest of his/her life.