Recently, “One of the most insane verdicts ever in the Netherlands was delivered.” “Arnold O. murdered his ‘girlfriend’ — a young mother — because she focused too much on caring for her newborn and too little on him. He stabbed her 258 (!) times and filmed the mother as she lay bleeding to death. Afterwards he took selfies with the newborn in its mothers blood. The Public Prosecutor only demanded 10 years in jail for this extremely gruesome murder, but the judge halved it to only 5 years in jail because Arnold O. has ‘limited cognitive capabilities’, a politically correct way of saying he has a very low IQ.”
As Reddit adds,
“The court in The Hague sentenced 24-year-old Arnold O….to five years in prison and compulsory TBS (forensic psychiatric treatment). The man killed his 22-year-old girlfriend Jihaneve on July 18 last year by stabbing and cutting her 258 times with a knife, in her home in Zoetermeer. The couple’s two-week-old baby was also present in the house at the time. According to the court, the crime “in terms of violence and gruesomeness absolutely belongs to the exceptional category”.”
“O. filmed part of the violence with the victim’s phone. According to experts, O. was psychotic at the time he killed his girlfriend and suffers from personality disorders.”
“The court considers O. to be of diminished responsibility, although that “goes in the direction” of complete non-accountability. That was the reason for the court to halve the ten-year prison sentence demanded by the Public Prosecution Service.”
“The police were alerted by a nurse from the consultation bureau, who was going to visit the mother and child. She heard Jihaneve screaming for help and saw, when she looked through a window in the house, a bloodied leg and a bloodied foot. O. was arrested on the spot. Shortly before that, he had taken a selfie with the baby. The police found the victim on the bed in the bedroom, next to the used knife.”
“The personality investigation revealed that O. could not bear that his girlfriend had focused on the care of their child since the birth….
“Jihaneve’s mother said emotionally after the verdict that she was “very disappointed” and called the verdict “a slap in the face and a kick on my daughter’s grave”, because the prison sentence was far too low in her eyes. “In recent weeks, two more women have been murdered. What message is being sent to society by the court? This is simply not possible. Unacceptable. This does not feel like justice.”
258 stab wounds.
This cruel, impulsive, violent man is a threat to public safety, and will remain so in 5 years when he is released. He may well kill again after being released. Letting inmates out after only a few years results in more violence and crime than if they were given a longer sentence. When Italy released inmates early, that increased its crime rate a lot, according to a 2014 study in the American Economic Journal. Other studies find similar results.
Some murderers kill again and again after being released. A classic example is Kenneth McDuff. At the age of 19, after being paroled, McDuff and an accomplice kidnapped three teenagers. He shot and killed two boys, then killed a girl after raping and torturing her. Later, after being paroled yet again, he murdered as many as 15 additional women.
Arnold O. will be only 29 when he is released. He will not have aged out of crime. Criminals usually commit more crimes after being released, especially when they are released in their 20s or 30s. Nationally, 81.9% of all state prisoners released in 2008 were subsequently arrested within a decade, compared to 74.5% of those 40 or older at the time of their release. (See Bureau of Justice Statistics, Recidivism of Prisoners in 24 States Released in 2008: A 10-Year Follow-Up Period (2008-2018), pg. 4, Table 4)).
