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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSOme folk should never be around children- throw away the keys
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/mother-jailed-for-manslaughter-of-four-year-old-forced-to-ride-motorbike<snip>
An Adelaide mother who laughed as she filmed her injured four-year-old daughter repeatedly falling off a motorbike has been jailed for at least four years for the girl's manslaughter.
The mother and her then partner made the 17kg girl get back on the 50kg motorbike over a three-day period, despite her suffering massive injuries from repeatedly falling off and crashing.
When Chloe Valentine was eventually unconscious in a semi-vegetative state, Ashlee Polkinghorne and Benjamin McPartland waited eight-and-a-half hours before calling an ambulance.
In jailing the pair in the South Australian supreme court on Wednesday, Justice Trish Kelly said putting Chloe on the bike in the first place was negligent, as was failing to seek immediate medical help.
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SOme folk should never be around children- throw away the keys (Original Post)
malaise
Apr 2014
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theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)1. OMG -- that poor baby
The sentence given to those two monsters wasn't nearly enough!
malaise
(268,997 posts)3. And the fugger was laughing
Thankfully there is no more pain for that little girl.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)2. Some days an "eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth" makes sense to me! n/t
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)4. Even more evidence
to support my opinion that having children should not be a "right".