14-month old Holly Agius, died after she was taken to hospital in Gloucestershire after repeatedly being given the heroin substitute.  The mother, named as Bonny Richards, 27 and her partner John Davies, 31, have admitted two counts of child cruelty with both being bailed and are expected to be sentenced next month.

Earlier this month a lesbian couple were jailed for giving methadone to a crying baby.  The drug addict mother Susan Taylor, put the heroin substitute on the dummy of her 10-week old son to stop him crying.

The baby boy fortunately survived but doctors have said that it is too early to say if there will be any lasting effects after a huge quantity of the drug was discovered in the baby’s urine.

The Edinburgh mother was jailed for three years while her lesbian partner Lynn Cowan was jailed for 10 months for not telling medics that the baby had ingested methadone.

The two woman were said to be watching television when Cowan noticed that the baby wasn’t breathing, his face was grey and his lips were blue.  When an ambulance arrived the baby only let out a gasp before suffering fits on the way to the hospital where he was kept in intensive care, thankfully making a recovery over the following 36 hours.

His mother admitted to rolling his dummy around in the medicine cup used for her daily dose of methadone but it was said that she had no concept of knowing how dangerous methadone was to a young baby.

Unbelievable, should drug addicts be allowed to have children, I don’t think so!  The mothers three year sentence she was given was to follow the 26-month sentence she was currently serving for snatching the bag of a 66-year-old lady at knife-point!  What a great mother she would have been, hopefully this little boy will now get some chance of a normal life away from his scum of a mother!

The Death Penalty

On the 26th January 2009, I wrote a story of the couple Ritzwan Patel, 27, and Alliah Bradshaw, 29, who abused their six-week old baby daughter and left her to suffer with broken bones and meningitis.

Here is the original story;

http://www.buzzindisgrace.co.uk/another-child-suffers-at-the-hands-of-its-parents/195

The father, Patel was given a pathetic sentence of four-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to child cruelty and to causing grievous bodily harm.  He admitted to shaking his baby daughter “in a fit of temper” so badly that nine of this tiny child’s ribs were broken, her collarbone, and she also had fractures to her legs

The mother, a drug addict, had previously had two other children taken into care after they were found to have been ill treated and neglected, was given a three-year jail sentence.  This poor child was born addicted to drugs and suffered with withdrawal symptoms for the first days of her life.

This child was on the Child Protection Register and allegedly had regular visits from Health and Support workers, so how was this allowed to happen?

The Support workers had apparently advised the parents to take the baby to hospital to undergo x-rays on her legs!  Surely that should have alerted them that something was not right, why wasn’t it arranged that the baby was seen immediately, what was the point in advising them to do something when they obviously had no control over their own life’s, unbelievable!

Summing Up, the Judge Jonathan Rose said;

“The consequences of her untreated illness was that this baby suffered brain damage, she has blindness, she has deafness, she has required surgical intervention, she has cerebral palsy.

The real suffering is to come for a long time in the future because her life has been effectively ruined.  She is condemned to a future of suffering, she will need constant and indefinite care.”

Her life has been ruined, as the judge said so why have these evil parents been given such miniscule sentences?  Both should be sterilised so they can never be parents again and then given a very slow and painful death sentence to suffer the same as this poor innocent child, I hope they both get what they deserve one day!