Texas oil heir Charles Brooks Jr. ordered to pay historic $1.1B after brutally attacking toddler stepson, putting him in wheelchair
https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/texas-oil-heir-charles-brooks-jr-ordered-to-pay-historic-1-1b-in-child-abuse-case/
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_1983@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 137d
I recommend against reading the article because it contains details of the toddler's injuries. It is heartbreaking.
waddle_dee@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 137d
protist@retrofed.com · 13 pts · 137d
I wish I had read the comments first
Serinus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 136d
I don't because it's ny post, which isn't a valid source for anything.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 137d
I hope he has the same thing done to him every day in prison for his forty year sentence.
Speculater@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 136d
I know prison isn't supposed to have secondary punishment, but... This man deserves a lot of unapproved justice.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 136d
It would seem the most fitting punishment is to make the offender endure through what he did to his victim. The ultimate goal is to teach empathy, which is apparently missing from him. And he's just another abusive billionaire so he can afford what is required.
The other punishment is to take all his money and wealth, enroll him in a program that strips him of his Identity and makes him start over as some poor chump, struggling like the rest of us.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 136d
I was really hoping toddler was a surname... Fuck
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 136d
is the California Post as trashridden and unreliable as the NY Post?