For those of you haven't heard of her, the sweet young thing casually posing for the camera is Lavinia Woodward. She is the young woman who, having met her boyfriend on Tinder, proceeded to enjoy drug and alcohol fuelled binges with said young man, culminating in a tantrum that led to her demonstrating amazingly poor judgment for someone who aspires to 'cure heart disease' by becoming a heart surgeon.
To my eye the young 'lady' in question looks surprisingly smug in pictures of her and apparently she has the supreme arrogance to imagine that because she has published some articles and is top of her class she is entitled to avoid any serious punishment for actions. She is not unlike a student of mine who arrived at my college from an all girl environment purely to gain access to boys. She, too, was bright but failed her first year exams miserably and begged me to have her results re-assessed because she had bought into her own publicity. She imagined that being intelligent was a ticket to success that required a minimum of effort, while embracing a lot of boys. If she had had her way the outcome was not have been dissimilar if I had shared her high opinion of herself. In later exams she did knuckle down but was not the 'star of the show' that she imagined herself to be. I have since lost track of her but I feel sure that she still imagines herself to be 'special' but sadly not in a good way and she was sufficiently arrogant to think that she could convince me of her superiority. Well tough little girls! Life is hard and despite the modern day cult of celebrity seeking and self-serving, the best way to become anything and/or anybody is to work hard and most of all to actually care about other people rather than imagine that you are the centre of a universe around which the rest of us mere mortals orbit.
Back to Ms Woodward; apparently she is a somewhat privileged young woman with a wealthy mommy who lives in Milan. She apparently plans to return to college as if nothing has happened post sentencing which smacks of manipulation of the law, elitism and merit taking priority over punishment and apparently the judge is an apologist for the advantaged and his actions serve to endorse the comment made by Gerald Nabarro after he was acquitted of a driving offense that he was very likely guilty of :
'If a man can afford to pay for justice, he will secure it.
A man who cannot afford to pay will rarely secure it.'
Apparently the judge is swayed by accounts her 'troubled life; her battle with addiction and abuse at the hand of another ex boyfriend. But this girl punched the boy in the face and admitted unlawful wounding - GBH. A friend of hers is quoted as saying that 'they see her as worth the risk of having around adding that she might win a Nobel Prize, later stating that she is very intelligent.'
Just how intelligent is this girl? She uses Tinder, does drugs to the point of addiction, hurls things at people if she doesn't get her own way and when all else failed apparently she resorted to stabbing the fellow with a bread knife - a 'one -off event' in the judge's opinion, and how, pray, can he possibly be sure of that I ask! The young man obviously rues the day he went on Tinder and has had the good sense to take out a restraining order against her because she is clearly prone to serious lapses of judgement.
Perhaps if this girl was called Jodi or Chardonnay, had gone through the state education system and had actually had to work to achieve her success she would value her career potential, but I doubt that this girl really gives a damn! She's an addict and we all know that they are manipulative, highly accomplished liars and self-deceivers who rarely accept responsibility for their addictions and actions. If she can be bought out of this little spot of bother by her family, who have probably enlisted some top flight lawyers in a Nabarro-esque legal manoeuvre to plead her sad plight, they will doubtless have invoked the notion that if she is denied a career in medicine it will be a great loss to humanity.
She will doubtless learn nothing and continue to consider herself to be 'entitled' to do whatever she sees fit. There must not be one set of rules for the rich and another for the poor, she did a very bad thing and needs psychiatric help, counselling and some time to reflect on the error of her ways and what better solution is there than giving her a custodial sentence to wake her up to the reality of life as the rest of us know it.
If I ever develop a serious heart condition I would hate for this young woman to be my surgeon because she is wholly unreliable. There may come a day when she might decide on some course of surgical action on a whim that might cause someone to die on the operating table because she thinks that she knows better than anyone else and deems them to be collateral damage.
For me, there are more reasons why this young woman should not join the medical profession than there are for her being treated with leniency. She is, clearly, a loose cannon and I would have far more confidence in someone who valued their future enough not to endanger it on the alter of capricious self-indulgence. After all she seeks to go into a life or death profession while it seems she has no respect for either.
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