Having a co-worker steal your lunch is undoubtedly infuriating, however is your revenge for that infraction value spending your life in jail?
Apparently, a Virginia man thought so, a minimum of within the second.
On Tuesday, Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Lawyer Steve Descano announced that Bazen Berhe, 25, has been sentenced to 100 years in jail for killing Hernan Leiva, 58, within the car parking zone of the Goal the place they each labored.
Descano’s information launch stated Leiva, a janitor on the retailer, was stabbed and bludgeoned to dying “for taking Berhe’s lunch from the workplace fridge.”
In Behre’s thoughts, it appears, that minor annoyance warranted his spending a number of days “coaching for the homicide” after which, on April 17, 2021, killing Leiva with a hammer and two knives within the worker car parking zone, the discharge stated.
“Behre confessed to the crime instantly and pleaded responsible to first-degree homicide in October of 2023,” Descano’s launch stated.
Throughout his sentencing listening to, it stated, the defendant “threatened to kill or harm different folks if he wasn’t given the harshest potential sentence.”
The decide complied, sentencing Behre to the total 100 years with 30 years suspended, making for a complete of 70 years in jail.
Contemplating what Leiva’s household has needed to undergo, one would suppose giving the janitor’s killer the harshest potential sentence could be a no brainer.
As Descano stated in an announcement, “Mr. Leiva’s pointless and tragic dying leaves behind a grieving household and neighborhood, one that can by no means be the identical after such a mindless act of violence.”
CA Descano introduced immediately that Bazen Berhe, 25, was sentenced to 100 years for the 2021 homicide of Hernan Leiva, 58, within the car parking zone of the Bailey’s Crossroads Goal the place they each labored. pic.twitter.com/1bqPJkZ8Zc
— Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Lawyer Descano (@FairfaxCountyCA) January 30, 2024
As stunning as this brutal homicide is over such a trivial offense, it’s however a symptom of the growing stage of violence and disrespect for all times plaguing our society.
School shootings have gotten so frequent that kids have energetic shooter drills (even in day cares); riots have been tolerated and even encouraged in the summertime of 2020; and murders in our urban areas are reaching document numbers.
The query is, why?
Our liberal elites have their very own solutions — solutions that conveniently enable them to broaden their already bloated energy — however the fact in all probability encompasses quite a lot of solutions.
A part of this lack of respect for human life comes from our tradition’s abandonment of God. No matter what atheists attempt to argue, all basis of ethics and morality comes from God, and the notion of every individual having inherent dignity got here from Christianity.
Additional, the widespread follow and legalization of abortion in our society have conditioned folks to consider life as disposable. If we’re inspired to homicide the youngest and most helpless amongst us, how are we to coherently argue that it was improper for Behre to kill his co-worker over a stolen lunch?
In any case, by that commonplace, Leiva was worthier of dying than the hundreds of harmless unborn infants killed daily.
It’s a tough query to reply, nevertheless it’s a truth {that a} society without God can’t coherently defend the dignity of human life.
Perhaps, if our tradition can flip again to God, we might see a big diminishment of this scourge of brutal and mindless violence.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.