Dad gets probation in drowning death

[madeline_con]

Dad gets probation in drowning death
Judge: Family must be reunited
By Jason Alley, The News-Herald
PUBLISHED: July 17, 2005

DETROIT — Raising three young children by yourself can be much more hectic and stressful than most people realize.

A Wayne County Circuit Court judge used that reasoning Thursday in sentencing a man to five years probation after he was convicted of leaving his 14-month-old daughter in the bathtub to drown as he watched pornography on another level of the house.

http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/071705/loc_20050717002.shtml

:wtf:

[Megahurtz]

1. Holy Fucking Shit!

This Judge should be sentenced!:grr:

[The Doctor.]

4. That's easy for you to say.

You were not the Judge.

[jojo54]

2. News like this always sickens my heart

but I feel for the other children too.

Will Dad every be able to watch porn again, with a conscience?

[LisaL]

5. Will he be able to watch porn again?

God, I hope so. I hope he can overcome the death of his child so he can watch porn again guilty free.

:spank: :spank: :spank: :sarcasm:

[The Doctor.]

3. I can't imagine how he must feel.

Sure, it's easy to criticize.

But as a parent, I have left the kids alone for a few minutes at a time... I've even fallen asleep on a couch while they were playing only to wake up to a room decorated with the contents of the refrigerator.

100% vigilance is impossible for all but the most neurotic parents.

The self-loathing that this fellow will live with will be truly crushing because he will identify a 'selfish' urge with failing to protect his kid.

As easy as it would be to demonize him - think of what a piece of dirt he feels like right now.

I'm guessing there's no punishment you could imagine that he does not already wish upon himself.

[madeline_con]

9. "I've even fallen asleep on a couch while they were playing ..."

But not while they're in water on another level of the house. I hope.

[The Doctor.]

13. No.

[woodsprite]

6. Watching a 14mo while in the tub

is not beyond the realm of what a responsible parent should be doing and is not in the least neurotic. No baby or toddler should be left alone in the tub -- whether it's to answer the phone, put in a load of laundry or go get a towel and CERTAINLY not to watch a porn flick on another floor of the house. His baby died because he was jacking off someplace else. There is a problem with that.

This judge should be censured for his judgement and the guy should at least at the bare minimum have mandatory community service and parenting classes.

Added:
Anybody know if that's a condition of his parole?

[madeline_con]

10. I agree.

How long does it take to scrub a kid that size, and get her out of the tub to a safe place to play, right?

[noiretextatique]

7. if it was a single MOTHER watching porn

while her 14mo child drowned in the bathtub...all those defending this guy would be screaming for her bloody head.

[DawgHouse]

8. My thoughts exactly!

[madeline_con]

11. 2nd that!

You'd probably get supervised visitation with the others IF you were lucky!

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Don't tell me

white male?