GUILTY FL - Hunter Morris, 1, beaten to death, Istachatta, 11 Sept 2009

[impatientredhead]

I respectfully don't agree with that CL. Yes, they do know the difference. They may have self esteem issues but I find most victims who have been abused themselves become very overprotective of their children........not idly sitting by under-protecting while their children are beaten or murdered.

To suffer abuse oneself is one thing and not do anything to stop it but to allow it to happen to the very children you are to protect is nothing short of unforgivable.

Imo there has never been a child born or a woman/man that didn't know they were suffering from abuse unless they were mentally challenged in some capacity. They know, that is why it takes them years to overcome it if they ever do.

imo

Children that are abused absolutely know they are being abused. They are made to be part of covering up their own abuse, hiding the bruises, repeating the lies, pretending everything is okay. They know and then are further abused by being put in a the role of protector of the abuser. It takes years to unravel those conflicted feelings.

 

[oceanblueeyes]

ITA, Ocean. Before school age they may not know it isn't normal, but by the time they get at least 7 or 8 they see the difference in their lives and their peers. This mother has no excuse to not protect her baby. I also agree that she should be charged as an accessory; without her willingness to do nothing, this child would not have suffered, then died.
Is there anything even saying saying she was abused as well? From what I read it was only the child being abused. Just because he cried. Poor little angel.

Not that I have read but I wouldn't be surprised if she tries to use this excuse to negate any responsibility for her being a facilitator to these abominable acts..



imo

 

[OkieGranny]

From September 2010:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/dead-babys-short-life-is-measured-in-pain/1124109

When paramedics rushed Hunter Morris to Brooksville Regional Hospital in the early morning darkness, bruises covered his tiny body. Hospital staffers detailed injuries to the baby's forehead, neck, chest, back, arms, stomach and legs. One of his ribs was fractured. There was retinal hemorrhaging in both of his eyes... The medical examiner determined that he died from blunt force trauma to the head.

Ultimately, his mother's boyfriend would go to prison under a plea deal that said David McBurnett Jr., 20, was guilty of manslaughter by culpable negligence, an ambiguous legal term that neither directly accuses nor absolves him of the fatal abuse.

Many other adults in Hunter's short life — his mother, family members, family friends — witnessed some of the abuse he was enduring, records show, but no one sought to save him by going to authorities.

From August 2013:

http://hernandotoday.com/man-gets-12-years-for-probation-violation/

David Alan McBurnett Jr., 23, served two years in prison after pleading guilty to beating his girlfriend’s baby to death 2009.

Judge Daniel Merritt Jr. handed down a much lengthier sentence on Thursday for a violation of probation charge, which will send McBurnett back to prison for 12 years.