Six months? SIX MONTHS!?
This is an OUTRAGE! What the Hell is going on in American when a woman not only does this, but only gets six freakin’ months for it:
The 9-year-old boy went outside without his godmother’s permission. His punishment was to sit in a bathtub as the woman filled it with five pots of boiling water.
When he emerged from the scalding water, the lower half of his body was covered in severe burns. The woman waited four days to take him to a hospital.
Four days! This woman needs to be put under the prison. So what reasoning did the judge give for his sentence:
Circuit Judge John M. Glynn called the case “troubling,” “disturbing” and “bad,” and said there had to be “serious consequences for this.”
Then he sentenced Lawson to 10 years in prison, with all but six months suspended. Explaining why in court, Glynn said, “The real point of a sentence like this is to deal with the defendant into the future.”
He said he didn’t think putting Lawson behind bars for several years “would be helping the situation” and said it would be up to the state-run Department of Social Services, which oversees Baltimore’s child protective services, to decide what to do with the boy and the woman’s biological daughter.
Serious consequences? Where are those at? Why would you suspend all but six months for this crime? Where is the justice for the child? And what is worse is this Lawson woman shows no contrition at all. She still claims that it was an accident, citing a faulty water system:
Lawson apologized in court for “a series of poor decisions.”
“I am sorry what for what happened to [the boy]. I loved him.”
But she maintained that the scalding was not a punishment for his behavior, saying that the apartment had hot water problems and that they routinely added boiled water to raise the bath temperature.
Let me remind you before you start thing, “Oh yeah…that’s possible” that “When he emerged from the scalding water, the lower half of his body was covered in severe burns.”
What an disgrace. There is no justice here. Six months for severe burns. What does she have to do to get a year? Kill him?
This is liberal activism at its worst.
Update:
Here is a link with a video account of the story.
