Justice for all????

[kyrsyan]

I'm trying to understand this. One of my dearest girlfriends got robbed by her former roommates last week. They took over $2000 worth of stuff. Actually more because there was a whole slew of silver and gemstones for making silver jewelry, a hobby of hers. But those items were picked up here and there and she didn't have any way of listing all of what it was.

They found a tiny amount of her jewelry, not the stuff she made, because she found out where one of them pawned it at. It took the detectives 2 days to follow up on the lead. The jewelry was hers. So today they searched the house and found more stuff but none of the truly valuable things, except one small box of silver wire in the mom's room.

Here's the kicker - they arrested the boy (teenager) but refused to arrest the mom because they didn't want to have to be responsible for her medically. (Yes they found stuff in mom's room) WTF!! Crimes can now be ignored because the criminal has illnesses?!?!

In addition, she was already told that despite having prior records the son will be released without bail and most likely will only get probation.

Not understanding the justice in this at all. She was in the process of moving out and is now completely moved out but this is just wrong.

[mzkitty]

There's no justice in this, you're right. Tell her to put it behind her and take out renter's insurance (very cheap). It happened to me once when I was 21. A woman my age was the bookkeeper at the place I worked; she needed a roommate. I thought she was nice. After all, she was a preacher's daughter, lol right? Sheesh. What that girl didn't do when she thought nobody was looking. Anyway, I used to give her my share of the rent money and never asked her for a receipt. After all, we rented from our employer (he had a few houses). To make a long story short, she absconded with the rent money, went to a dept store and charged up a storm, packed it all in her station wagon and bailed for home in Mars, PA. I got fired from the job because the boss didn't believe I had paid my share, and naturally got evicted. Her creditors called me for several years looking for her because she charged up thousands of dollars. Chalk one up, eh?

What can you do?

[mzkitty]

You know, thinking back on that, the little creep even got my poor mother for money. Yeah, one day we're at my mom's house and while I'm in the powder room, she tells my mother she didn't have the money to renew her drivers license and my mother believed her and gave her the money for it because she felt sorry for her. She told my mom it was a loan and that she would pay her back. She never paid her back either, of course. That really ticked my mother off, let me tell you. Some people are just bums. This one had such a good act going that nobody knew anything about what she was up to until after she bailed and people started comparing notes. I bet she stole from the boss too, but I never asked and he didn't say. Why else would she bail like that???

[kyrsyan]

She did get renter's insurance. She got it a few days ago.

But I already was badly disillusioned with our justice system due to some things I've been dealing with. This is just the topper.

[Sleeping Cobra]

There is no TRUE justice in this country. And the judges are corrupt. But there is justice and there is a TRUE judge. You just have to look up.

[Be Well]

There is no justice any more. It's all gone.

[changed]

There is no justice any more. It's all gone.

Only wealthy celebrities get justice.