Australian mother jailed for starving her children

The Associated Press - October 1, 2010

ADELAIDE, Australia - An Australian mother who admitted spending welfare money on cigarettes and gambling was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for starving, beating, and neglecting her children.

Prosecutor Jim Pearce told the court the children were starved and sometimes forced to vomit if they ate when they were not supposed to. They were also made to stand against a wall all day and beaten for stepping out of line.

When authorities were notified in June 2008, one child was hospitalized with hypothermia and all the children were taken into protective custody.

Judge Chris Kourakis handed down the sentence in the South Australian Supreme Court, where the woman pleaded guilty last month to two counts of endangering life and three counts of creating a risk of serious harm relating to five children.

The woman cannot be identified in order to protect the identity of her children.

Kourakis said the woman had been abused as a child but added the need for a deterrent in child protection cases outweighed her lawyer's request for a suspended sentence.

The mother will be eligible for parole in three years and three months.

Source: The Associated Press

 

lol...you're onto australia again i see...!!! good work

 

This woman went on to have five children when clearly she has mental issues and no one around her knew of this neglect and torcher earlier then when it was discovered.

This sickens me to the core, I am so sad for the children. The mother doesn't deserve to get parole in three or so years,, those children will be mentally damaged for their whole life.

This just makes me so sad.:cry:

 

Why is this being brought up?

 

Ran out of UK news, so on to the closest thing, I guess.

 

well you know that australia is a nation that was built on english convicts of course

 

Correct built on convicts and beautiful, sexy women, like you.

 

:smt008

 

Yup.

 

One last time....fer this 24-hour quadrant of temporal existence, ennyhoo....

IT COULDA BEEN ANYWHERE!!!!

Why would THIS news report carry ANY other distinction over one from The States (Or any other fiefdom of the globe) just because it occurred ion The World Outside Of The United States??


Anybody out there in the audience got an answer?





(Sound of crickets chirping in the twilight)


IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT'S *HOLY*.....

CAN WE MOVE BEYOND THIS AND DISCUSS TRULY RELEVANT THINGS HERE LIKE.....LIKE FAIRLY SANE & SENTIENT FOLK?



Man, I'd rather be in the Communications Centre with Lieut. Fred Hafner again than ta keep on puttin' up with THIS crap!!!!


An' *I* - along with more than a few others - came close ta slashin' OUR collective wrists (metaphorically, fer *me*, at least....as for those OTHERS...) puttin' up with THAT fool!


Fer cryin' out LOUD!!!!!
















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