Judges Forces Deer Poacher to Watch ‘Bambi’ At Least Once a Month For a Year
A Missouri poacher who is suspected to have illegally killed hundreds of deer over the past decade has recently been ordered to watch the Disney classic ‘Bambi’ at least once a month for one year, as part of his sentence.
It’s not clear exactly how many deer David Berry and his two sons – David Berry Jr. and Kyle Berry – have poached in the forests of southern Missouri over the last nine years, but investigators suspect that the number reaches into the hundreds. The three men hunted the defenceless animals mostly at night, cutting off their heads and antlers as trophies and leaving the bodies to rot where they fell. Although their cruel and illegal activities were financially motivated, police evidence suggests that cutting off the heads of the deer was mostly about satisfying the poachers’ personal egos. Now, one of the twelve men accused in what has been described as one of the largest deer poaching cases in the history of Missouri will have to watch the Disney classic ‘Bambi’ repeatedly to hopefully realize the error of his ways.
鹿を密漁していた被疑者にたいして裁判で裁判官がディズニー映画の傑作『バンビ』を最低毎月一回、一年間にわたってみることを量刑の一部として命じたというニュース。
そいえば、日本でもさだまさしの「償い」に言及した裁判があった。
三軒茶屋駅銀行員暴行殺害事件
http://yabusaka.moo.jp/santya.htm
2002年 東京地裁 AとBの二人に対し、懲役3年以上5年以下を言い渡す。
この法廷で山室恵裁判長は、さだまさしの歌を引用した。判決言い渡し後「唐突だが、さだまさしの“償い”という歌を聴いたことがあるだろうか？」と質問。少年２人はキョトンとした表情。裁判長は「この歌の、せめて歌詞だけでも読めば、なぜ君たちの反省の弁が人の心を打たないか分かるだろう」と続けた。「償い」はさだまさしが作詞、作曲。実話にもとづいた作品で、雨天に運転中、道を横切った男性をはねて死亡させた若者を歌っている。若者は遺族に仕送りを続け、事故から７年目に遺族からの手紙を受け取るという内容のものだ。歌詞を書いてみたので、ぜひ読んで見て欲しい。