Reading about the death of a toddler after being kicked by some guy screwing (I was going to say 'in a relationship with' but that seems overly generous) the mother I wonder if it isn't time for a campaign telling young men (again 'men' seems inaccurate) to never, ever kick a baby. Obviously telling them to never, ever shake a baby hasn't sunk in in this instance. Or maybe as babies can't be shaken, and babies can't be smacked, only kicking is left.
I hope he is found guilty of murder and goes away for a lot longer than he will if his defence team successfully argues for manslaughter. In all likelihood he was probably wretchedly abused himself as a child but that has made him a danger to any other children of women he hooks up with (if they aren't already at risk from their own mothers). He needs detaining until age takes its inevitable ameliorating effect on his innate violence.
For God's sake, "a poor parenting decision?" What kind of twisted disinfecting crap is that? Whoever dreamed up that description insults the memory of the dead child and somehow mitigates what was a brutal killing.
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A better campaign would be to tell mothers not to have casual affairs, otherwise they risk their children's lives.
Lindsay, the comment "a poor parenting decision" speaks more to the character of the lawyer making it, than anything else. I note the lawyer is not named in the article on stuff.co.nz.
Shocking. What hell this child's life must have been, before and after the violence tha eventually called him. These arn't parents, they're animals with tiny, defencless children at their mercy (or lack of). What are these mothers thinking? Certainly not of the welfare of their children, or this boy would stil be alive. Is the DBP also to blame; if not for the benefit system, would this child have been adopted out to wanting/caring/loving parents that all children deserve?
Jesus wept...
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