[Madhatter]

What I don't get is that here, there are nearly every week stories about boyfriends that have repeatedly beated their girlfriend over an 8 yr period, and have gone to far this time and cracked a jaw bone or fractured cheak bone. Why do they only get 18 months which will be 9 months in reality for permanantly disfiguring these girls faces and permanently scaring their minds. I know there's the argument that they shouldn't stay but thats not always the case that they have, sometimes it's happened when he's come to pick the kid up for custody rights and he's seen her the other day talking to a guy, when they've been split 18 month.

These are crimes that scar people for life.