SC - Miracle McLean, 2, beaten to death, Spring Lake, 2 July 2007

[believe09]

K-still having a hard time letting this one go...we have injuries on a two year old that were both old and healing (shoulder injury) and severe blunt force trauma to the abdomen and head.

What kind of accident covers this unless this family believes it was the 3 year old who stomped her sister to death?

And if they believe the 3 year old did this crime, are they getting her help?

I could see an adult taking the fall for a child-because the adult was the one in charge and responsible. BUT, he was denied bond not because they believed he was taking the fall for the child, but because they believed that he pounded this baby with his fists.

A little help here??

 

[impatientredhead]

Good grief, where was the investigation in this case? Did they let this guy just plead out on a deal? I know the prisons are crowded, but child murderers are not the ones to go easy on.

No plea deal.
This was a trial by jury.

 

[WhyaDuck?]

The judge and jury seem to have been influenced by Byrd's "mild retardation." The elasticity of what constitutes an incompetence defense is getting a bit wide. If one tried hard enough, most everyone could be found to have something... it should really just come down to knowing right or wrong, and I have doubts that "mild retardation" severely hampers that.

(O/T: It is so odd that the media and law in the US still uses the term.)

 

[impatientredhead]

K-still having a hard time letting this one go...we have injuries on a two year old that were both old and healing (shoulder injury) and severe blunt force trauma to the abdomen and head.

What kind of accident covers this unless this family believes it was the 3 year old who stomped her sister to death?

And if they believe the 3 year old did this crime, are they getting her help?

I could see an adult taking the fall for a child-because the adult was the one in charge and responsible. BUT, he was denied bond not because they believed he was taking the fall for the child, but because they believed that he pounded this baby with his fists.

A little help here??

He said she drowned in a horrible accident.
Autopsy said blunt force trauma from multiple blows and previous injuries.
He took the body to the fire dept seeking help and the "family" members stood by his side. There are quotes about how painful having the love of mom's life torn from her has been. I bet he has gone back home to the same woman, and if he has they should take her children from her. He is not even on probation, sentence served, done.

 

[oceanblueeyes]

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5670699/

I know I started a thread for little Miracle when this first happened but I can't find it. This is why things like this will continue, these monsters can kill innocent babies and get a frickin' slap on the wrist!!!:furious:

The most defenseless victims in our country rarely receives true justice when they are heinously murdered. Especially if the perpetrator was known to the family or the child.

While law makers scramble to make new laws it most often is because a stranger has murdered a child they did not know. With only 5% of them being murdered by strangers that means the ones who will most likely get greater justice that they most assuredly deserved is victims of that low 5%.

It leaves the other 95% of the innocent victims without true justice just because we seem to put more weight on the perpetrator if they were strangers, while the courts seem to look at the murders done by someone known to the victim and decides that "familiarity" with the victim equates to less punishment and very little justice for the child who has been murdered by someone known to them.

The message it sends imo, is "knowing" the infant or child gets the perpetrator off with a menial amount of punishment. It is a slap in the face to all of our murdered and abused children imo for it shows time and time again that they are not treated equally in our justice system.

Every now and then, a case will come along where a family member is the murderer of their own children and they may be given a stiff punishment but IMO, it is too wide of a gap because others who have done the same dastardly reprehensible acts may get very little time for a precious life taken.

We see this too in sexual abuses of little children. There again, if the perp is a stranger the punishment tends to be more severe yet if it is a child who has endured years of agonizing sexual abuse:furious: by one of their parents or a live in b/f g/f or acquaintance they sometimes get no jail time at all and simply get probation.

Our courts do not support all infants and children equally. It shows that our justice system sees some of these most defenseless victims in our society as having unequal worth.

I find that deplorable, shameful and totally unacceptable.

imo