Absurdity

There are some stories so absurd they deserve being remembered.

April 30, 2008 - In Canada, a father is asking the court to allow his younger daughter to live with him in the same townhouse where she and another daughter killed their mother. The man told a court today he didn't see any problems with her showering and taking a bath in the same tub where she and her older sister drowned their mother and his ex-wife more than five years ago.

The two girls were 16 and 15 when they drowned their 43-year-old alcoholic mother on the night of Jan. 18, 2003. They got away with it for a year before a friend revealed the plot to police. It had even been discussed on the Internet prior to the murder. The two sisters were sentenced to the maximum of 10 years in prison allowed under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

He told the court how his daughter's education has "suffered tremendously" since being sent to the federal prison last year because she's only allowed to take one university course instead of the four or five she needs to take in order to pursue a university degree.

He revealed his daughter wants to study pyschology and philosophy and eventually attend teacher's college once she finishes her sentence.
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TT - It's Canada so the likelihood of her teaching is, uh, 50 -50. And, should she be caught murdering someone else, if she's a teacher, her name will, most likely, never be publicly revealed since the teacher discipline records in Canada frequently substitute case numbers. To protect their privacy.