The Ontario 'Child Murder' Cases, And The Miscarriage Of Justice

NPR carries the story, which airs today.


It's literally horrifying, a tale of innocent lives turned upside-down and ruined, reputations destroyed, years lost to imprisonment on the most horrible of trumped-up charges--the crime of murdering one's own children. All on the false testimony of a pathologist determined to view every child's death as a criminal case to win, and a coroner who both encouraged and covered up the official malfeasance.

And yet, and yet...

Charles Smith (the pathologist) never faced charges. Earlier this year, a medical board stripped him of his license and ordered him to pay a $3,650 fine.

!!!***!!!@@@###!!!!! (absolutely unprintable language here)

Does it occur to the Great And Good that this utter miscarriage of justice destroys the fabric of a culture?

It is a blessing to see the exoneration of the wrongly convicted. There remains a foul stench in the air, knowing that the real criminals will never, ever, see a day of jail, much less the lifetime of imprisonment their crimes call for.

This sort of horror tears the civility of a civil society apart, and breeds the horrible violent practices of revenge, the malevolent alternative to justice.

As OS keeps repeating, We Don't Want To Go There. Ever.

Unless the police, prosecutors, judges, and 'experts' like coroners know they have 'skin in the game', that every prosecution requires they lay their badges, law licenses, medical degrees, etc., on the table, at risk, the moral hazard soars, and the persecution of the innocent becomes their stock in trade.