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**Nataliia Karia, center, with her lawyers Brock Hunter, right, and Ryan Else, reacts during her sentencing hearing in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis, Monday, July 16. Karia, a Minneapolis day care owner, was sentenced to 10 years of probation for trying to kill a toddler in her home by hanging him from a noose.**
*(Photo: Leila Navidi, AP)*

Natalia Karia, originally from Ukraine, was operating a child care center at her home. One day she had a major psychotic episode during which she had made a noose and hung an 18 month old boy who was one of the children in her care. Fortunately, the boy was rescued by a father who had stopped by to drop of his child at the facility; otherwise, the boy may have very realistically died.

Having been discovered, Karia panicked, tried to flee in her vehicle, got into an accident, fled the scene of the accident and struck three people in the process. Fortunately, all three of her victims in that episode survived - as did the boy she had attempted to hang. Best I can tell, none of her victims suffered long lasting injuries - though the threat to all of them was, naturally, quite substantial.

So now Karia has pled guilty to attempted murder and third-degree assault and a plethora of other charges related to the accident. And she has been sentenced to 10 years of probation but no prison time - and hence will be free to go and rejoin the society having only served several months in jail in pre-trial detention.

Her primary defense is abuse she had allegedly suffered at the hands of her husband, both in Ukraine and in the US. While if that is true she deserves sympathy on account of abuse she has suffered the wisdom of this sentence is questionable at best. Another question worth asking is, would a male defendant receive the same measure of judicial leniency under identical circumstances? The answer to this seems to be an almost definitive "no".

And if that is the case, what kind of justice is this, really?
 
**_Sources_**

[Daycare provider who hanged toddler in her basement sentenced to probation](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/17/daycare-provider-who-hanged-toddler-sentenced-minneapolis/791189002/)
Lou Raguse, *USA Today*, 17 July 2018

[Minn. Daycare Operator Who Hung Toddler From a Noose Avoids Prison](https://people.com/crime/minnesota-daycare-provider-hung-toddler-from-noose-avoids-prison/)
K C Baker, *People*, 18 July 2018

[Daycare Worker Hung Toddler In Basement And Got Probation(video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j93I3-zyCvI)
Sydney MGTOW, *YouTube*, 10 September 2018