The Nameless One
Morgan BellFemale Chauvinist Pigs
October 7th 2008 08:13
A Tasmanian woman who fed her unfaithful husband glass on repeated occasions has been spared a jail term as of late last week. Lynette Quessy attended her sentencing hearing last Wednesday to be given a 9 month suspended sentence by Justice Shan Tennent. Quessy, who works in the Hobart branch of Centrelink, had remained living with her then husband Tim Nash after the discovery of the affair in 2004, for the sake of their children. After a property dispute lat last year, Mr Nash discovered what he thought to be rock salt on a biscuit that his wife had given him for lunch. The same substance was found in his sandwiches continually and he stored his lunches in a freezer in the garage. It turned out the Quessy had crushed a fluorescent tube and stored the fragments in a plastic container in the upstairs kitchen in her part of the house and had been spreading the fragments in his lunches. It wasn't until Nash found a note written by his wife that said,
This case here is a lovely example of why we are disposing of suspended sentencing in this country. It is a ridiculous notion that a first time offender can get away sparkling clean with attempted murder. And it is on that simple basis that suspended sentences are delivered, by pure virtue of perceived character and that it is their first time. Not to mention that it was indeed the wife who was attempting to kill her cheating husband. Had this situation been reversed, what say you to jail-time? a solid affirmative from those of sound mind. A man trying to kill his wife couldn't hope for less than 2 years regardless of how many charities he volunteered for. Not to mention that the Justice who sentenced Quessy is indeed a female. How is it that such sexism can pass through the channels of Justice? yet there is no outcry.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and nor has it the ability to skulk it's way out of the consequences. The malicious act of feeding someone glass belongs in the underbelly of the Melbourne Gangland. It is a horrific act that could only be intended to maim and kill someone slowly and painfully, yet this woman is pitied because it was her husband cheating on her, and she gets patted on the back. The note she had written clearly indicated her intent, there is no escape from that fact, but she is still in the community seemingly without guilt. The precedent this sets is disgusting, thank heavens we're disposing of suspended sentences, a pity we can't do the same with this female chauvinist attitude as easily.
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that he called the police and she was arrested at her workplace. Quessy admitted in court that she intended to harm her husband only to force him to see a GP about his drinking problem, an excuse Justice Tennent found absurd. Although she had disorganized thoughts, her claimed depression at the time was not severe to impair her judgment. Justice Tennent claimed that the charity worker was unlikely to re-offend. This case here is a lovely example of why we are disposing of suspended sentencing in this country. It is a ridiculous notion that a first time offender can get away sparkling clean with attempted murder. And it is on that simple basis that suspended sentences are delivered, by pure virtue of perceived character and that it is their first time. Not to mention that it was indeed the wife who was attempting to kill her cheating husband. Had this situation been reversed, what say you to jail-time? a solid affirmative from those of sound mind. A man trying to kill his wife couldn't hope for less than 2 years regardless of how many charities he volunteered for. Not to mention that the Justice who sentenced Quessy is indeed a female. How is it that such sexism can pass through the channels of Justice? yet there is no outcry.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and nor has it the ability to skulk it's way out of the consequences. The malicious act of feeding someone glass belongs in the underbelly of the Melbourne Gangland. It is a horrific act that could only be intended to maim and kill someone slowly and painfully, yet this woman is pitied because it was her husband cheating on her, and she gets patted on the back. The note she had written clearly indicated her intent, there is no escape from that fact, but she is still in the community seemingly without guilt. The precedent this sets is disgusting, thank heavens we're disposing of suspended sentences, a pity we can't do the same with this female chauvinist attitude as easily.
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