(Cleveland, Ohio) Having never been comfortable with my understanding of what "shock probation" means, the following story provides some welcome explanation.
Miriam Robinson, 42, was given shock probation by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul because "she had made considerable progress addressing her mental illness and alcoholism." Her "considerable progress" allows her to walk free after serving only one-third of the sentence imposed for attacking her children (ages 6 and 15). That attack occurred on May 7, 2002, when
". . . she drank a bottle of whiskey and swallowed pills. Then she gave her son an elixir of soft drinks and prescription drugs. As he slept on her couch, Robinson bent over her daughter as she played a video game, kissed her, then slashed the girl's throat with an 8-inch knife. Then she cut her sleeping 6-year-old son's throat."So, now I fully understand the meaning of "shock probation." It means that just about any individual in society who can distinguish right from wrong will be absolutely shocked that this woman was given probation.
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