Dear Editor: Remember those young college kids who murdered their newborn baby? Well, I read that the young woman is being released from jail. Please pay attention here. This young female gave birth to a child and then deliberately and knowingly murdered that infant. She was “sentenced” to two and a half years for that murder. Two and a half years for the murder of her child. I thought the punishment was supposed to fit the crime. Is that what the court thought was fit punishment for murdering her baby? If she had let the baby live, he would only now be beginning to do all those magnificent and joyful things that two-year-olds do, but which he never got to do because his parents murdered him. And she received two and a half years. Wait, it gets even better. This child murderer is now being released early because of good behavior. Excuse me? Good behavior? Is this American criminal justice system kidding me, or what? I have been angered and disgusted and frustrated and bewildered by this case since it happened and every aspect of it is nauseating. Two “college kids” from “good homes” conceived and gave birth to a child and then combined to murder that child in a violent act that defies every aspect of good. Their thoughts and acts were heinous. Their act is abhorrent to every living creature on this planet. And she gets two and a half years and gets out early because she’s been a good little girl while she was incarcerated. Once again, I write for the baby. A am offended for this most innocent victim who was murdered by his mother. I am outraged that the nation which gave this baby the birthrights of life and liberty has reduced the already ridiculous sentence of this murderer who took away that child’s right to life. I am saddened that the world is deprived of the innocence and joy and wonder and potential and promise of a newborn life, and yet we now give back to the world a murderess and we do so sooner because she behaved during her incarceration. Will Susan Smith be released early if she behaves herself in prison after she sent her two children into a lake, trapped in an automobile? Will David Berkowitz or Charles Manson get off early? There are those who will say that’s different. True. The Son of Sam and Crazy Charlie never murdered their own newborn child. Released early because of her good behavior? I repeat that this murdered child deserved better than he got and this murderess again gets better than she deserves. Tom Hart Former Councilman The Heights