This is HORRIBLE! About a 17 month old baby, I wont use reporters headline

Decent · #1 09-30-2008, 12:53 AM

Baby With 8 Broken Ribs Dies After Social Workers Leave Him With Abusive Parents

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

A 17-month-old baby boy was murdered by his mother and her boyfriend despite being on a council "at risk" register and having already suffered a catalogue of injuries including eight fractured ribs and a broken back that left him paralyzed, a British court heard Tuesday.

The child, who along with the two adults cannot be named for legal reasons, was subjected to "a course of assaults of increasing violence" over many months at his home in North London even though he was being monitored by experts, the Old Bailey was told.

He was examined many times by doctors and was seen by a health visitor, social workers and was put on the Haringey Child Protection Register under the category of neglect and physical abuse for nine months, a jury was told.

Despite this he received numerous injuries — computer-generated images of which were shown to jurors to protect them from having to see the real thing.

Parts of the boy's fingernails and fingertips were missing, his head was covered in ulcerated sores and the skin between his upper lip and gum had been torn which, the court heard, was "highly suggestive of non-accidental injury, usually by forcing the teat of a bottle into a child's mouth or by a hard glancing blow across the mouth."

His fingernails, it was said, may have been deliberately removed.
His spine may have been broken when he was forced over the back of an adult’s knee or banister rail, jurors heard.

He also had many bruises to his face and body and was probably bitten on his scalp by a dog at the house. The baby was hit so hard on the night that he died in August last year that one of his teeth was found in his stomach.

The tot's 27-year-old mother, who has other children, her boyfriend, 32, and another man, Jason Owen, 36, all deny murder. The two men deny causing or allowing the death of a child, although the mother has admitted allowing the death of a child, but denies causing the death.

Sally O'Neill, QC, for the prosecution, told the seven men and five women of the jury: "Over the last seven or eight months of his short life (this child) was subjected to a course of assaults of increasing violence.

"The Crown's case against these defendants is that either they themselves inflicted this unlawful force on (the child) or that they participated in a joint enterprise to do so."

"The death of any child is tragic. The death of a child in these circumstances is likely to fill any reasonable person with revulsion."
The trial, expected to last up to eight weeks, continues.

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Another article about this:

Battered baby left with his mother, court hears - Times Online

Hate it when I stumble on an article like this. I cant NOT read it, but it makes me wanna vomit. I wish I could put all these people ina room and make them feel the same pain they inflicted on that baby for the rest of their lives. That poor little baby lived 17 months and NEVER knew anything but pain. I'm glad I'm not rich, if I were, I'd be flying all over the world killing people like this. I'd become a one woman army, a mercenary defending abused children. Shit like this makes me wanna jump ona plane or just get in the car and drive there and do whatever the hell I can to make them suffer. I dont understand the concept of 'cruel and unusual punishment' for prisoners. If they inflict 'cruel and unusual punishment' on their victims, then they should GET 'cruel and unusual punishment' themselves.

terri · #2 09-30-2008, 12:58 AM

Ugh - that poor baby! And the mother admits 'allowing' the death, but not causing it?!?!

There *is* no suitable punishment for these people. Absolutely disgusting.

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Decent · #3 09-30-2008, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by terri

Ugh - that poor baby! And the mother admits 'allowing' the death, but not causing it?!?!

There *is* no suitable punishment for these people. Absolutely disgusting.

There are only two real punishments in this country, a kind and gentle sleeping death administered with a needle, or being locked up with 3 meals and a bed, cable TV, working out, taking classes, yeah you may have to fight to protect your backside now and then but other than that and noit being able to see family everyday, big deal.

We need torture. We need to follow the example of some of these third world countries, God only knows what they would have done to these people but it would be more fitting than what they'll get here.

HEDDY · #4 09-30-2008, 09:02 AM

This makes me want to puke and is the exact reason I don't read the news.

Zeke · #5 09-30-2008, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by terri

There *is* no suitable punishment for these people.

oh... I can think of 1 or 2 right off the top of my head...
hang them up by their toe nails.. then beat them with [-snip-] and then
[-snip-].. when they finally regain consciousness.. you take a [-snip-]
and drag them over to [-snip-][-snip-][-snip-][-snip-]

save you some moderation and censorship time Chaser. :-D

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frogman68 · #6 09-30-2008, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeke

oh... I can think of 1 or 2 right off the top of my head...
hang them up by their toe nails.. then beat them with [-snip-] and then
[-snip-].. when they finally regain consciousness.. you take a [-snip-]
and drag them over to [-snip-][-snip-][-snip-][-snip-]

save you some moderation and censorship time Chaser. :-D

Why not my method.

Take a blow torch and take off each joint starting at the toes and when the POS passes out stop till he or she regains consciousness

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TattdMom · #7 09-30-2008, 10:31 AM

I agree that these people should be punished severely however, what about the system that kept putting that poor kid back in harms way? The following bothers me more than the actual abuse.

"He was examined many times by doctors and was seen by a health visitor, social workers and was put on the Haringey Child Protection Register under the category of neglect and physical abuse for nine months, a jury was told."

Why were these people allowed to have this child back after being "examined many times by doctors"? Yes this is horribly tragic but it comes from a very flawed system. If someone is in danger.....why send them back to it?

I just don't get it.