Women’s rights campaigners have blasted the sentence handed to Chris Brown for his attack on Rihanna, insisting the R&B star should have been jailed.

Brown was given six months hard community labor, five years probation, and ordered to stay away from the singer after pleading guilty to felony assault.

He threatened to kill the singer and repeatedly punched, bit, and slapped her during the horrifying attack in his car after a pre-Grammy Awards party in Los Angeles in February.

Brown admitted the assault in June and was sentenced at an L.A. court on Tuesday after striking a deal with prosecutors.

But campaigners have criticized his punishment, insisting it sends the wrong message to perpetrators of domestic abuse.
U.S. Women’s Institute chief Roslyn Muraskin says, “I think it is terrible. Here is a guy that beat up his girlfriend – he deserves to see some prison time.”

Source, Bauer-Griffin