I believe Yates’s mental state (she suffered from post-partum psychosis) was factored in.
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What part of “coma” and “severe brain injury” do you not understand? There’s probably a chance she’ll suffer lifelong brain damage.
Dear god, that guy is smiling in his mugshot. shudder
Kudos to the judge who handed down that sentence. 5-8 years for that level of abuse would be horrible for her children, not to mention she would likely be having more children once when released. The sentence is appropriate imo . But I am wondering if she was offered a plea bargain and declined? Seemed weird that she was testifying to honestly. I do give her credit for owning up to her crimes, but unfortunately she does belong behind bars.
I don’t believe prison should be used for punitive purposes. Keep her away from her kids forever (while they’re still kids), and out of the gene pool long enough to prevent her from spawning again. I don’t feel qualified to judge whether the sentence she received was excessive. However, I’d be in favor of giving her the choice between the following options:
Right, because the sort of people who beat their own two-year olds into comas are only dangers to their own kids. They never abuse step-children, younger family members, or other children put into their care. A woman that would do something like this is perfectly safe as long as she isn’t allowed around her own biological children.
If you like to beat your kids I feel bad for you son
You’ll get 99 years, like this bitch just won.
This.
It’s the headlines that are the problem. beating a child so severely that she goes into a coma (or was induced into a coma by doctors to save her).
She needs to be off the street and sterilized to prevent future children.
Without prejudice to the facts of tbe present case, I will point out that it is nkt unknown or indeed or indeed uncommon for abusers to act that way to one or more child and be perfectly nice and civil with the others.
For the other children to witness such abuse is abuse and damages them profoundly.
She’d still be able to attack kids not her own in that case.
Wow. Five kids at age 23, with a sixth on the way at the time of the assault.
As a layman, I wouldn’t be surprised if that were a factor in the sentence.
IMHO, anywhere that has the capital punishment at all should have it for rape and child abuse. Not just murder. The fact that we don’t is not due to murder being the worst crime imaginable, it’s due to women and children beingconsidered property not too long ago.
I disagree with the sentence.
Jerry Sandusky molest 10 boys and gets only 30-60 years max.
This woman glues and beats her children and gets 99.
They both should get the same sentence.
Agreed, Sandusky should get 10 sentences of 99 (non-consecutive).
Charles Rothenberg, who in 1983 poured kerosene on his sleeping 8 year old son and set him fire and then drove away, got the maximum sentence allowed at the time: 13 years. Why? Because his son David survived this vicious attack.
Kenneth Parnell who in 1972 kidnapped and sexually abuse Steven Staynor for seven years, only served five years.
It’s high time judges can give anyone who tortures a child what they deserve: life in prison.
You beat me to it.
there’s an advantage to letting them out early. The public gets to express their opinion of the act face to face.
Exactly. She didn’t get 99 years for gluing her daughter’s hand to the wall, but for the rest of it. At this point, who can say for sure that the child will truly recover?
Why do you think the child’s recovery is in jeopardy?
99 years for what she did?
I’m thinking a nice neat lead insertion to the forehead would be more appropriate.
Seriously, you beat ONE toddler into a coma, and people act like you’re a bad person or something? The fuck?