Women sentenced over toddler fight

[Madspirit]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20070420/tuk-women-sentenced-over-toddler-fight-6323e80.html

Women sentenced over toddler fight


Press Assoc. - Friday, April 20

A mother who forced her two toddlers to attack each other with weapons and filmed the fight was spared jail.

Zara Care, with her sisters Serenza and Danielle Olver and her mother Carole Olver forced the two toddlers to punch each other in the face.

The four women also goaded the two-year-old boy and three-year-old girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, to hit each other with a magazine and a hairbrush and when one did not fight they called him a "wimp" and a "faggot".

The fight was filmed on a home video recorder and was found by chance by the children's father who is in the Army and had returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

He saw the camera and decided to look for some footage of his children playing to show their grandparents but instead found the fight and reported it to social services.

All four women, from North Prospect, Plymouth, Devon, had earlier pleaded guilty to child cruelty and were given 12-month sentences suspended for two years at Plymouth Crown Court.

They also were each ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service and banned from working with children.

Passing sentence, Judge Francis Gilbert said he found the film "shocking to watch".

Care, 21, pleaded guilty to causing or procuring the children to be ill-treated in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury. Danielle, 19, Serenza, 29, and Carole Olver, 48, pleaded guilty to jointly inciting the ill-treatment of children.

Investigating police officers described the footage as shocking and said that all of those who had seen it were stunned.

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[derby378]

1. NO JAIL TIME?!?!?!?

:cry:

[Madspirit]

2. Should have been jail time.

Is this sick or what? Just when you think you've seen everything.
Lee

[fishwax]

9. no kidding!

:wtf::grr:

[Faux pas]

3. People (using the word loosely) who sponsor dog fights and cock

fighting get harsher sentences that that. Since when are children less important than animals? Oh yeah, that's right, the Humane Society came onto existence long before child welfare did. How screwy are we?

[hippiechick]

4. It's all equally wrong, IMO...

forcing people or animals or whatever to attack?


WTF is wrong with this world ? :cry:

[Faux pas]

6. If I was Queen of the World, I'd fix the hell out of it. Until then I

just have to shake my head and wonder what ever happened to the the human part of human beings.

[Ilsa]

5. They need parenting classes, not just community service. nt

[Telly Savalas]

7. I hate to seem grim

but parenting classes for these folks would be like using masking tape to make repairs to the Hoover Dam.

[Ilsa]

11. You never know. Sometimes you can have a break through with people. nt

[devilgrrl]

8. At least Alec Baldwin isn't their parent!

:sarcasm:

[Kat45]

10. Does she still have custody of the kids?

I hope not.