Child Abuse: Teenage Boy Beats Baby Girl to Death
58I picked up a news report on the BBC website today, and could hardly believe what I was reading!
In Manchester, England, a fifteen year old boy was left to look after a two year old girl for a couple of hours while the toddler's mother went out to collect her benefits cheque. During that time the teenager inflicted sixty-eight separate injuries on the girl, including a bite, smashing her face to a pulp with repeated punches. The child died in hospital.
The defence seems to be offering a case that the boy “suffered an abnormality of mind which impaired his responsibility”.
Abnormality of mind?! What on earth can have been going on inside his head, for God's sake? What could possibly have driven a young man to make such a brutal attack on a defenceless toddler? He does not belong in society.
Surely, if he was unstable and capable of such an assault, there must have been previous signs and evidence of his “abnormalities of mind”. I cannot conceive how the mother, who must surely have known that the fifteen year old was of “abnormal mind”, could have considered, even for a brief moment, leaving her two-year old child in his care. She must live with that fatal decision for the rest of her life.
I have no final point to make with this short hub, or thought provoking conclusion. I just wanted to bring the sad and sorry story to your attention and register my personal outrage.
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Perhaps it has something to do with poverty and education level.
Perhaps so. Education begins at home, eh? Parenting skills (or the lack of them) would seem to be one of the major issues with this sad story.
WTF THAT EFFIN BOY SHOULD BE BEATEN. YOU NEVER HIT A BABY WTF IS WRNG WITH HIM. THAT MAKES ME ANGRY. HE SERSERVES TO DIE IN JAIL!!!! FUCKING PUNK!!!!
Well Mo, I certainly understand and agree with your general sentiment, and understand that you are very angry with the perpetrator. I have, therefore, approved your comment, as I believe that everyone's point of view and manner of expressing it is important. However, as hubpages is for those who like to write, and thus enjoy language, it would be good if you tempered your language and searched around for adjectives rather than resorting to the repeated use of a potentially offensive expletive.
Your passion is admirable, and I thank you sincerely for taking the time and trouble to post your comment.
Writer Rider says:
6 months ago
Welcome to America. We hear stuff like this "all" the time (sigh). What's going on in a person's head that they could do such a thing? I have no idea!