By: kym074
3/07/2009
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A drug-addicted mother who screamed "I should buy you a skirt" as she shook her crying baby son to death has been jailed for at least four years.
The violence was witnessed by a visiting neighbour, who said the woman was complaining: "He doesn't *** **g stop crying, he doesn't *** **g shut up".
The NSW Hunter Valley woman, now 30, pleaded guilty in the NSW District Court to the manslaughter of her nine-week old baby in February 2007.
In sentencing her on Friday, Judge Brian Knox said the woman's two other children had been removed from her by authorities and had been living with relatives at the time.
The neighbour, who witnessed the shaking days before the baby's death, said the mother had looked "very, very angry".
She had put her hands under the baby's arms and held him in front of her face while shaking him wildly, the court was told.
Because she was shaking him so fast, the neighbour said, she could not count how many times it happened.
Judge Knox said the evidence showed the offence was spontaneous, occurring when the mother lost her temper due to "an inability to control herself due to drug intake".
The baby suffered from suspected withdrawal symptoms when he was born and was monitored by weekly visits to his home by a midwife until he was about eight weeks old.
On a visit to her GP, the mother revealed she was not coping with things and not bonding with her son, the judge said.
After the ambulance took the shaken infant to hospital, the mother told staff "I would not hurt my baby", adding that she'd had "a hassle with DOCS (Department of Community Services) in the past".
She also asked that her family not be told anything about the baby's death.
Judge Knox noted a psychiatric report which said the woman had been treated for depression and substance abuse for many years.
She started using amphetamines at 16, while later drug use also included heroin and ice.
The woman referred to being raped at 16 and her father gav ... |
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By: kym074
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Give me her name and where she's jailed.
I want to give her a piece of my mind. SCUM! |
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By: deborahmac09
3/07/2009
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I cannot fathom how a 9 week old baby can make you angry enough to do that!
Drugs are an excuse, 4 years isn't enough. |
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By: frenchyjen70
4/07/2009
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I cannot fathom how a 9 week old baby can make you angry enough to do that!
Drugs are an excuse, 4 years isn't enough.
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yet many people still shake their babies - the ones that aren't dead are left with horrific injuries - brain damage, blindness, physical disabilities...
i don't know what the answer is - wonder if the 'never shake your baby' campaign has actually led to a decrease in this kind of stuff??? should look it up... |
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By: deborahmac09
4/07/2009
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i don't know what the answer is - wonder if the 'never shake your baby' campaign has actually led to a decrease in this kind of stuff??? should look it up...
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I think it helped to make people realise that shaking babies can and does harm them. |
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By: loocy_lastik
4/07/2009
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| I don't think that campaign ran for very long, French. |
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By: aussiearisen
4/07/2009
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Obviously not long enough.
I don`t understand how anyone would want to live after doing something like this. We have aquaintences whose druggie son shook an 18 month old baby to death, the idiot is so drug damaged that he doesn`t even know what he`s done.
Why keep idiots like this alive ? - The money should be spent on decent people. |
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By: frenchyjen70
4/07/2009
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I don't think that campaign ran for very long, French.
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the TV campaign didn't - but the print stuff is still out there - and NAPCAN certainly still print loads of stuff... there are still posters being printed too...
i couldn't find any research on the incidences increasing or decreasing... the hard thing is, it's often not clear on whether the baby has been shaken - can be hard to prove... so stats wouldn't be accurate... |
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By: frenchyjen70
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I don`t understand how anyone would want to live after doing something like this. We have aquaintences whose druggie son shook an 18 month old baby to death, the idiot is so drug damaged that he doesn`t even know what he`s done.
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and there is your answer. most of the people that do this kind of thing are drug-f@cked |
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By: studybugz
4/07/2009
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| the dopey neighbour should be jailed as well |
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By: frenchyjen70
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| what did the neighbour do? |
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By: deborahmac09
4/07/2009
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Why keep idiots like this alive ? - The money should be spent on decent people.
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And what is your definition of a decent person? Surely not someone who puts a cost to the value of life. |
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By: studybugz
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| neighbour just played as a by-stander, witnessed the babys ordeal a few times and did f all |
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By: studybugz
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| the neighbour states she cant count how many times the baby was shaken, that says it all |
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By: deborahmac09
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neighbour just played as a by-stander, witnessed the babys ordeal a few times and did f all
the neighbour states she cant count how many times the baby was shaken, that says it all
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It does not say what the neighbour did or didn't do, it only says what the neighbour saw.
It is clear someone called an ambulance, it is not clear when or who. |
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By: frenchyjen70
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the neighbour states she cant count how many times the baby was shaken, that says it all
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why does it? it would have been over in a few seconds, what do you think the neighbour should have done? lived in the house with the drug-f@cked couple and babysat? |
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By: mickomega
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| In the lock up she will probaly receive retraining, most probaly as a preschool carer, they know what's best you see, they have a degree, you can't argue with that. |
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By: deborahmac09
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There is no way in hell this woman will ever get a working with children card.
She won't have it easy, and that is a good thing. |
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By: kym074
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| I have never had to get a working with children card in ANY Australian state except in WA. |
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By: aussiearisen
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"And what is your definition of a decent person? Surely not someone who puts a cost to the value of life."
Every cent spent on these baby killers could be spent saving the lives of others. |
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By: deborahmac09
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Every cent spent on these baby killers could be spent saving the lives of others
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Yes that is true. But baby killers are not the only people who can not be considered decent. |
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By: aussiearisen
4/07/2009
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| So who else do you want to kill Deb ? |
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By: deborahmac09
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I actually don't want to kill anyone aussiearisen.
I believe that all life is precious. I was just answering someone else's post about decent people. |
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I have never had to get a working with children card in ANY Australian state except in WA.
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well you mustn't have worked with children in Qld or NSW because they both have them and they are mandatory if you work with children in any capacity. |
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By: jynxed54
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| Steralise her, throw away the key, there is no excuse for that. None...... Creatures like that shouldn't be allowed to ever breed again. |
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