Monday 22 June 2009

Sick, Sad, World

Manchester was shocked by details revealed in court today of yet another toddler battered to death by somebody into who's care they were entrusted, a story made all the more disturbing by the ages of both the victim and the assailant.
Babysitter 'battered tot to death' (Neal Keeling, MEN, June 22, 2009)
A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has appeared in court accused of punching, kicking and biting 2-year-old Demi Leigh Mahon to death leaving her with 68 different areas of injury to her body.
The boy, who had been left to look after Demi Leigh before without incident, denies murder.
Demi died two days after the attack at a flat in Eccles last year.
When Demi's mother returned home to find her daughter terribly injured and asked the boy why he hadn't called an ambulance he told her "I've not done anything......I picked her up and might have hurt her - and then she fell in the park." He also claimed the child had hit her head on a radiator and an ashtray.
Mr Bentham for the prosecution said "......whatever mental problems he may have he knew what he was doing and he knew the consequences of what he was doing."
I have to agree with him, but I also have to wonder what is going so very wrong with our children that a 15-year-old boy could not only do this to a toddler but then have the callousness to try and lie his way out of it.

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