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This type of thing has been more egregious in Asia the last couple of years. With the wealthy even paying the poor to serve their jail sentences........ Also this boy's parents being rich doesn't mean anything if they didn't have the network to be able to reach out to both the prosecution and the judge. You can't simply "throw" money at a crime, you also need to have some sort of pull or "power" for cases like these to go the way they did.
While this is an egregious manipulation, and exploitation of the system, I never get why people use extremes to make their arguments ie a poor black/latino kid (non connected, no network of powerful friends, no societal leverage) to that of a rich white kid (connected, family has powerful friends, very deep pockets, great class and societal leverage). To make these leaps in judgement first you have to show how a poor white kid with the same attributes as the poor black kid, is the perpetrator of a similar heinous crime and gets away with a slap on the wrist before you could even bring a poor black/latino kid into the argument.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._doubles_to_serve_their_prison_sentences.html
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...ash-politics-laws-dont-touch-rich-in-thailand
While this is an egregious manipulation, and exploitation of the system, I never get why people use extremes to make their arguments ie a poor black/latino kid (non connected, no network of powerful friends, no societal leverage) to that of a rich white kid (connected, family has powerful friends, very deep pockets, great class and societal leverage). To make these leaps in judgement first you have to show how a poor white kid with the same attributes as the poor black kid, is the perpetrator of a similar heinous crime and gets away with a slap on the wrist before you could even bring a poor black/latino kid into the argument.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._doubles_to_serve_their_prison_sentences.html
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...ash-politics-laws-dont-touch-rich-in-thailand