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Man gets 25 years for microwaving baby
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| Djsketchbag |
THIS IS F***ED!!!!
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- A jury sentenced a young father Wednesday to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant daughter after putting her in a microwave and turning it on for up to 20 seconds.
Joshua Mauldin will serve 25 years for putting his infant daughter into the microwave for 20 seconds.
Joshua Mauldin was teary-eyed after hearing the sentence. His mother sobbed loudly in the courtroom.
The jury had convicted Mauldin on Tuesday of felony injury to a child, rejecting his claims that he was insane when he put his daughter Ana in the microwave last year.
Prosecutors had wanted him sentenced to the maximum of life in prison. Still, Galveston County prosecutor Xochitl Vandiver said she was satisfied with the sentence.
"It's extremely important for people to know that just because this case was sensational, it doesn't mean that (child abuse) goes away," she said. "Child abuse is an important issue. It should be focused on."
Sam Cammack III, Mauldin's attorney, had asked jurors to consider his client's long history of mental illness and sentence him to probation so he could be treated at a hospital.
"He still doesn't get the treatment for mental illness that he needs," Cammack said. "He's not going to get that in prison."
Jurors deliberated for 61/2 hours over two days before sentencing Mauldin. They also fined him $10,000.
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Prosecutors said Mauldin hurt his daughter because he was angry that he was in a loveless marriage. They also said Mauldin had a history of violence and of lying about being mentally ill to get out of trouble.
Mauldin claimed he started hallucinating when he was left alone in a Galveston hotel room with his daughter, feeling like mud was running up his body and consuming him.
Just before putting her in the room's microwave, he punched the then 2-month-old child and placed her in the room's safe and refrigerator.
Mauldin at first told police his daughter had been severely sunburned, later changing his story and saying he had accidentally spilled hot water on her while making coffee.
Ana suffered second- and third-degree burns to her left ear, cheek, hand and shoulder and required two skin grafts. Part of her left ear had to be amputated.
Joanie Mauldin pleaded for mercy, saying her son did not know what he was doing.
The girl's foster mother, Heather Croxton, told jurors Ana, now 1, screams during the daily process of cleaning the wounds and endures physical therapy five days a week.
Croxton, whose husband is a step-cousin to the girl's mother, Eva Mauldin, said she hopes to adopt Ana.
A trial to terminate the Mauldins' parental rights is scheduled for April. Eva Mauldin refused defense attorneys' requests to testify and lives in Arkansas
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| exstasie |
WoW..that is completed ed up!
I feel so bad for that poor little girl...who know what long term damage she is going to have.
I guess that guy took those baby in the microwave jokes literally...
I think life in jail is definitely an appropriate sentence!
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| Irishaddict |
| geeeeeeeeeeezus :( |
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| Intangible |
Wow.
How can a person do this?
That poor little girl :( |
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| Abercrombie |
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| iLLnaDa |
I recall something like this happened last year where some lady did the same thing to her baby :mad: :mad:
sickos!!!!!!!!! |
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| Geoffb3 |
| WTF .. thats so unbelievablly wrong .. poor little girl i hope she has no complicatiosn after the burn marks |
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| Dj Gracjan |
| that's soooo disturbing I have no clue where to begin! |
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| Yohan |
| remove this man from the gene pool. right now! |
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| Xavier Moriarty |
| quote: | | The girl's foster mother, Heather Croxton, told jurors Ana, now 1, screams during the daily process of cleaning the wounds and endures physical therapy five days a week. |
25 years????
nice job you motheres. for shame |
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