A Mother i sentenced a life in prison after letting her infant son die
<font color="purple"> ....just a local news story.

You see, my mom's friend works for domestic violence, so she knew this woman, so between that and what I've seen about the case on TV, here is what happened:

There was a woman with three kids (her youngest being the infant who died) was living with a roomate. The roomate was a bit...twisted. Aparently growing up he was the kind of kid who would tear the wings off of birds. In any case, she would let him babysit her baby when she was off at work and didn't have daycare. It was during this time that said roomate would start beating the baby if it cried. However, the mother didn't get any medical help for the baby at all.

After one paticularly violent attack when the baby was beaten and biten, the baby ended up going to the hospital, barely breathing, and died.

It wasn't until the mother found out that she was going to be in trouble to for letting the roomate kill her baby that she changed her story, saying that he was an abusive boyfriend and wouldn't let her take her baby to the doctor. Of course, this contradicts ealier statements when she told other people who were concerned about the baby's health that she already took him to the doctor. She apparently wanted the people who work with Domestic Violence to cooperate with her, but they weren't going to touch the case. But she "lied until the very end" though, and showed no real remorse (couldn't even remember her children's birthdays!)

The baby's father (who was in prison at the time) said that she was a selfish person that needed help.

Her other two kids are living with their grandma right now.

...so, a sociopath who neglected her child until he died by being beated to death gets 10-30 years in prison. But it makes me wonder if her stories were true? I guess I'm just the kind of person who is easy to manipulate into those kinds of things. I have mixed feelings have being happy and sad, but everyone else seems to be cheering over her conviction.

So I wanted to ask you, do you think this is justice served?</font>

[pachyderm]

> do you think this is justice served?

I doubt it. For me justice would be healing. I doubt that prison is. (There may be some exceptions.) Something new needs to be added to our usual methods of dealing with things like this. Prison, yes, but more. I have seen TV programs of abusive mothers in prison being in group therapies where they actually learn something about why they do what they do, and how to not do it in the future.