2 British girls arrested for drug smuggling in Peru

Unknown Soldier · 08-27-2013, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

It seems like with a for-profit crime like drug smuggling, risk assessment would be a pretty significant part of deciding whether or not one is willing to do it. They would most certainly be thinking about getting caught, so I don't think the murder vs theft analogy really works here.

The analogy was just used, to demonstrate the mindsets of the perpetrators involved here. Sure one is for economic profit and the other usually for selfish emotional profit (depending on the circumstances). But both are more or less treated equally in Peru. Drug mules getting upto 25 years and murderers upto 28 years, that's around 3 years difference. These are two crimes that I see as being world's apart in terms of seriousness and scope, and therefore I think they should be treated distinctly.

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I don't care that much about the crime. I've only questioned practical aspects of what you've said, as that's more interesting to me than what happens to these two women. If anything I'd say the worst part of the crime is providing bread and butter for the cartels.

Fair enough.

Unknown Soldier · 08-31-2013, 03:57 AM

Reading yesterday that these two girls if they were to plead guilty, would have their sentences more than halved to 6-7 years each. One of the girl's fathers has even suggested to his daughter that pleading guilty is the best option here. Again this shows the callousness of the Peruvian system, because even if you aren't guilty, it's probably still the best option if caught to actually plead guilty anyway, as the chances of justice inside the courtroom are not great and then the accused is left with the burden of a 15 to 25 year sentence.