Originally posted by: Dolly-heart
The biggest mistake a parent can make is protect a child when they have committed a crime. And Raman has made that mistake and even rewarded him with a picnic and ice cream and a fun holiday...
...What does it tell your child that has shown absolutely no remorse or guilt for what he did to an innocent pedestrian.
That no matter what I do my father is going to protect and obstruct justice to save me.
So I can kill someone tomorrow and my sucker of a father is going to get me off.
This is the formula for how big criminals are born. It is a shame that Adi will not learn any lesson here except that... I can do what I want anytime.
This actually reminds me of a criminal case we had a few months ago here in the USA that caused alot of controversy.
Some rich sixteen-year old was driving drunk and was involved in a hit and run. Unfortunately (unlike Mrs Iyer) - he killed four pedestrians. KILLED four pedestrians - and severely injured 2 more. This child had not only (illegally) stolen - yes, stolen - the alcohol, but he was SPEEDING more than 30 mph/around 48 kmph above the speed limit and had SEVEN passengers in his vehicle.
During this young man's trial, the lawyer used the term "affluenza" to try to excuse his crimes.
"Affluenza" is apparently a psychological ~illness~ which affects wealthy young people because rich parents do not set limits for them.
"Affluenza" was used to justify the kid's ~innocence~ because according to the theory of affluenza, the kid wasn't at fault.
Rather, because of his parents not setting limits for him, he couldn't link his bad behavior to consequences/punishment as his parents taught him that wealth buys privilege.
Let me just recap all the stuff he did:
1) Drive drunk, which in itself is illegal but he was 16 - and US law prohibits anyone under 21 from consuming alcohol, so already he was committing two criminal acts with this one.
2) had SEVEN passengers in his car
3) was speeding
4) hit and killed four bystanders/pedestrians.
This is a real case! And you know what - this little asshole didn't get prison nor juvenile detention time (which, if he was a middle-class or non-white kid, would definitely have gotten).
Instead, he was sentenced to six months in a posh rehab center along with a mere 12 (TWELVE?!!?) hours of community service. And the rehab center - just reading its description it sounds like a holiday resort and not a place for people to seriously think and reform (apparently it offers horse-back riding, cooking, martial arts, massages, swimming...).
Yeah, Adi was not drunk nor did he kill anyone but he still committed a big crime; hit-and-runs are no joke, neither is underage driving. But Shagun and Raman especially trying to mollycoddle him at age 12 like this and use (Raman's) wealth to destroy evidence etc.. - well, what'll happen if in 4 years, Adi actually kills someone like the actual case above?
Note: The teen who's case I mentioned is Ethan Couch; anyone can google up the story and the controversy surrounding it. Unfortunately, this is the real state of the world today.
Edited by gems4sana - 11 years ago