Simply appalling

[unixronin]

A Belgian mother was sentenced to life in prison in December for murdering the couple's five children, aged 3 to 14, while her husband was away from home on a trip to Morocco.  Belgium has a policy of recovering prosecution costs from those convicted of crimes, but the woman is insolvent.

So Belgium is billing the husband instead.

WTF?!?  "The murderer is insolvent, let's bill the surviving victim instead"?  That's as bad as China billing families for the bullets used to execute their sons and daughters for displaying insufficient revolutionary fervor.

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[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Is it Belgian law that married partners are automatically liable for each others' debts? In that case, billing the husband might obey the letter of the law but one would hope that someone somewhere in government would realize how horribly inappropriate that would be.