Lady Madonna, Children At Your Feet: The Criminal Justice System'S Romanticization Of The Parent-Child Relationship

In February 2007, two teenage brothers were each sentenced to ten years in prison for burglary and animal cruelty after they broke into a community center and killed a puppy by baking it to death in the center's gas oven.(I) Just one week earlier, a thirty-year-old mother named Amanda Hamm was sentenced for helping her boyfriend kill her three young children. The children drowned after Hamm and her boyfriend intentionally rolled their car into a lake with the children strapped inside. Mat sentence did Hamm receive for the brutal deaths of these three innocent children? Ten years in prison.(2).