Violent and abusive behaviour is disgusting

This is in regard to the article on Kyle Amegainek and the comment of the defence lawyer. (“Cambridge Bay woman beaten with broom for hours,” July 18.)

Defence lawyer Greg Nearing said Amegainek has had a lot of related convictions but “he’s not on the high end of the scale.”

What do you have to do in order to be considered “high end of the scale?” This person has been in and out of court since he was young for the same offence.

It is disgusting to be violent and abusive and consider it to be normal behaviour. In this day and age, to do such violent crimes to women, it should be considered at a high end of the scale when someone such as Amegainek does repeat offences for such crimes and gets only months at a time.

Anonymous
Cambridge Bay