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 Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject: "You have suffered enough" |
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Woman who fractured baby's skull is freed by judge, saying "she had suffered enough"
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:45 AM on 24th April 2009
A woman who battered a nine-week-old baby in an horrific attack has avoided jail after a judge decided she had already suffered enough. Claire Thompson, 32, who had been entrusted with looking after the infant, was found guilty in March of fracturing its skull, breaking a rib and inflicting up to three leg fractures.
An expert at her trial said the skull fracture was probably caused by the baby's head hitting a hard surface with force, the rib was probably broken by severe squeezing and the the leg bones were likely to have been fractured by forceful pulling or twisting, or by violent shaking.
But yesterday Judge David Goodin spared Thompson from prison, handing her a nine-month suspended prison sentence, ordering her to do 200 hours of community service and telling her to pay &500 costs.
Hearing that she had 'lost everything' following the assault, he heaped praise on her character and told her she had already suffered more than any sentence he could impose on her.
Judge Goodin said: 'All evidence simply confirms you to be an industrious, decent and placid well-liked young woman who was slow to anger and disinclined to confrontation.' He added: 'The only sensible explanation for these injuries must have been a sudden and momentary loss of control.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173121/Woman-fractured-babys-skull-freed-judge--saying-SHE-suffered-enough.html |
Is the Daily Mail something like Britain's equivalent of the Weekly World News, or is this story really true? |
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Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the Daily Mail something like Britain's equivalent of the Weekly World News, or is this story really true? |
Well, I don't think the Daily Mail just fabricates stories out of whole cloth, the way WWN does with their "Satan's Face Seen On Mount Rushmore"-type stories. But, in my experience, they do tend to sensationalize things, and perhaps overemphasize certain supposedly shocking details, while downplaying the broader context.
Not sure what they're up to in regard to this particular story. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the Daily Mail something like Britain's equivalent of the Weekly World News, or is this story really true? |
Well, I don't think the Daily Mail just fabricates stories out of whole cloth, the way WWN does with their "Satan's Face Seen On Mount Rushmore"-type stories. But, in my experience, they do tend to sensationalize things, and perhaps overemphasize certain supposedly shocking details, while downplaying the broader context. |
You just described every media outlet save (maybe) NPR. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| You just described every media outlet save (maybe) NPR. |
I'll fine-tune my point by saying that the Mail usually seems to sensationalize and decontextualize things along a right-wing bias. So, if the story seems to be the sort of thing that would provoke strong "law'n'order" type sentiment among readers, I'd be on the lookout for emphases or omissions along those lines.
Obviously, other media do the same thing according to whatever agenda they may have. |
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Roy Everett
Joined: 27 Apr 2009
Location: Suffolk
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: Re: "You have suffered enough" |
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Is the Daily Mail something like Britain's equivalent of the Weekly World News, or is this story really true?
Well the story of the sentencing is true. The report of the trial is completely missing. The baby is alive and well and at no time showed any distress or external injuries. The case was based entirely on interpretation of internal scans by experts. |
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