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malaise

(268,997 posts)
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 08:53 AM Apr 2014

SOme 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
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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 OP
OMG -- that poor baby theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #1
And the fugger was laughing malaise Apr 2014 #3
Some days an "eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth" makes sense to me! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2014 #2
Even more evidence pipi_k Apr 2014 #4
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