A Step Towards Equality?

A women who abused her husband has been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11798583/Prison-reform-boss-grins-jailed-20-year-campaign-abuse-against-husband.html Considering the level of abuse, she was let off quite lighty but at least it's a step in the right direction.

It's notable that the sentencing judge was a women. Some commentators suggest that was why she got such a light sentence but, from what I've seen in other cases, a male judge would probably have been even more lenient.

It's about time the police and courts starting treating female on male domestic abuse seriously. All too often male victims are fobbed off with "It's not a police matter, Sir."

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

I attended the sentencing hearing for a sexual abuser. The defense attorney and the prosecuting attorney each brought up a case that they argued was comparable and therefore should guide the judge's decision.

The judge was annoyed at both of them, saying "This is [i]my[/i] court", and that he would make his own decisions.

If that was typical of how judges think, then in the present case, the best way to assess whether this sentence was "light" or not might be to look at previous decisions by the same judge.