Is this justice?

Two Pittsburgh women whose blatant disregard for common sense and their responsibilities as parents will spend one to two years behind bars on involuntary manslaughter charges stemming from the deaths of five of their children, who perished last June in a fire that broke out while the mothers went drinking. Let's see, five children dead, and these women could be out of jail in time for a cookout on Memorial Day 2009. As best as I can tell from limited research materials, Furaha Love and Shakita Mangham, who left two 8-year-olds in charge of the five younger children while they went out for a drink, could have received a maximum of 10 years on each involuntary manslaughter charge. Why didn't they get it? The women initially lied to police, telling them an older babysitter had been left with the five young children, who ranged in age from 3 to 7. And it apparently caused them no concern that one of the younger children had been known to play with matches. Police say a kid playing with matches most likely sparked the deadly fire. The 8-year-olds escaped the blaze. During the legal process, the women's lawyers made statements that would be laughable were they not so infuriating. Mangham's attorney, Jim Ecker, shown with his client in the top photo, said, "Everybody sometimes screws up in life." Are you kidding me? Screwing up in life is causing a fender-bender at the Giant Eagle or forgetting to send out the monthly mortgage payment. These women, who at 26 are old enough to know better, are responsible for the deaths of five children while they were at a bar. Attorney Ernest Sharif, who represented Love, shown in the other photo, said, "It wasn't a party thing." He noted that Love had only one beer and was away from the house for just 15 or 20 minutes. Of course, in that 15 or 20 minutes, the house caught fire and five kids died horrible deaths. But if it wasn't a "party thing," doesn't that make all the difference? Since the gas chamber isn't an option, I would have sentenced these women to the maximum on each count, and made the sentences run consecutively. And they should have been ordered to have their "tubes tied" so they couldn't reproduce again.