WTF is wrong with people?

[dquan97]

some people are unfit to be parents...

 

[ironcrotch]

HANDLE YO BIDNES

 

[StageLeft]

Good to see one of them got 30 years. Too bad the other got so little. Fvcking people. WHy do I have to live in society with people like that not locked up in cages?

 

[Gurck]

Breeding licenses based on IQ still sound like such a bad idea?

 

[moshquerade]

trash

 

[skace]

Anyone who finds logical reason to beat a little girl into a coma over a kiss deserves medical treatment, life in prison, or the chair, and no less. There is no possible logical reason for her conclusion outside of clinically insane or serial killer mentalities.

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Reck
that's a pretty harsh sentence. some people serve less than 10 for murder.

I was just about to post the same thing. Jail time is definately deserved for this. But 30 years for two beatings (one incident)?

I'm assuming it was something along the lines of 20 years for assault and 10 years for child abuse.

Maryland sentencing information <- first useful link I found

 

[tami]

i don't get this kissing thing, but i'm glad those women were punished. sick bastards they are.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: Amused
UPDATE:

Two Women Sentenced in Birthday Attack
By BRIAN WITTE, AP

BALTIMORE (May 2) - Two women received maximum prison sentences Monday for their roles in the savage beating of a 12-year-old girl at a birthday party, an attack prompted by a kiss on the cheek from a boy acting on a dare.

Monique Baldwin, 37, was sentenced to 30 years after pleading guilty in March to first-degree assault and second-degree child abuse for instigating other children at the party to beat Nicole Townes, who went into a three-week coma after the attack.

Kenya Keene, 25, received a six-year sentence on reckless endangerment and second-degree assault charges.

"I hope you suffer ... for what you did to my angel," Wayne Townes, Nicole's father, said before the sentences were handed down.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Kaye Allison said she ordered the maximum sentences to send a message that the women's "incomprehensible" behavior won't be tolerated.

Before sentencing, Baldwin and Keene wiped tears from their eyes as prosecutor Julie Drake recounted the beating. Baldwin told other children at the February 2004 sleepover to beat Nicole, instructing them: "Don't stop until she bleeds."

Baldwin apparently had been offended because the boy was supposed to be her daughter's boyfriend. Keene conspired to conceal what had happened when paramedics arrived.

Nicole's sister, Brenda Bailey, 11, was also beaten.

Keene struck the younger girl several times and deliberately delayed obtaining medical treatment for Nicole. When medics arrived, she told them Nicole had suffered a diabetic episode. The misinformation and delay in treatment resulted in a worsening of the girl's condition.

Drake said Nicole doesn't remember the attack. Her father said she was "doing OK," but he declined to elaborate on her condition.

Erin Baldwin, 20, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and was sentenced to four years in prison and four years probation

Seven other females were also charged in the attack. Charges against four of them were handled in juvenile court.

makes me so happy that they got the maximum sentence. but i fear it will be lessened in appeals court

 

[labgeek]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Reck
that's a pretty harsh sentence. some people serve less than 10 for murder.

I was just about to post the same thing. Jail time is definately deserved for this. But 30 years for two beatings (one incident)?

30 years for putting a child into a 3 week long coma. And heaven only knows what kind of physical and/or psychological damage has been long term. 30 years isn't enough IMO.

Originally posted by: Reck
I'd think it would have been better to have the woman receive a mental evaluation before the trial and base the sentencing on that. A 30 year prison sentence will cost the taxpayers one million+ dollars.

Cost should have nothing to do with it. Obviously she has mental issues at least an extremely warped sense of what is acceptable. The fact is this person is a proven danger to society and should be removed from it. It's a shame it wasn't for a longer time.

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: Gurck
Breeding licenses based on IQ still sound like such a bad idea?

Unfortunately ideas like this while sounding good in theory would inevitably be attacked as racially motivated and never get off the ground.