Circle justice (native restorative justice)

In this archive the crime was that a man named Christopher Pauchay The Yellow band Quill member had been drunk last year and had sent his infant daughters outside on a deeply cold evening and left them to die while he struggled to reach his neighbor's house. The sentence for Pauchay was supposed to be in jail or sentencing circles, but the elders who were listening to Pauchay's feeling had decided that he had no culpability. The elders said that he had done nothing to be deserved to be apart from the innoecent. This process had took five hours, after the five hours of process he had been told he was innocent so it was very effective in his case but in my opinion i think it was not true justice. I think this because if you are irresponsible to end up doing such a thing as taking your infant daughters outside in the cold and leaving them to die, I feel that doing that in the first place is a crime and he should be punished. Normally I would say that circle justice is an effective means of justice because it can real change a person completely and probably have their lives go from a bad perspective to a very good perspectice. But after reading this archive/article i would have to say that not all of it is fair, because it is the elder's in the sentencing circle's fault that Pauchay gets to go free when he obviously comitted a severe crime, this somewhat makes me look down on their way of justice.