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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[montieth.livejournal.com]

There is a reason "Belgium" is a foul word in Douglas Adam's lexicon.