wicked_boy
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Father Jailed For Microwaving His Daughter...Father jailed for microwaving baby.
A young father has been jailed for 25 years for severely burning his baby daughter when he put her in a microwave and turned it on for up to 20 seconds.
The jury in Galveston, Texas, rejected Joshua Mauldin's claims he was insane when he put his two-month-old daughter Ana in the microwave.
He was convicted of injuring a child. He was also fined 10,000 dollars (£4,981). Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence.
Mauldin's attorney asked jurors to consider Mauldin's long history of mental illness and give him probation so he could be treated outside prison.
Mauldin was teary-eyed after hearing the sentence. His mother sobbed in the courtroom after the verdict was read out.
Relatives of the little girl were set to read victim impact statements in court, where they would tell Mauldin how the crime has affected their lives.
Just before putting her in the Galveston hotel-room microwave, Mauldin had punched the baby and placed her in the room's safe and refrigerator.
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 the hotel room with his daughter, feeling like mud was running up his body and consuming him.
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.
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Matthew
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People make me sad.
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Joshua
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Yes. They do.
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music is my life!!!
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OMG that is the most disgusting and low things i've ever seen!
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candymancan
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That is amazing! I can't believe anyone sick or not would do such a thing... and I swear sitting in the microwave for more than a second would kill that poor girl, but twenty seconds! Holy Crap!
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sopranoopianoo
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People can be so inhumane these days. I just don't understand. My heart dropped into my stomach as soon as I read this.
*shakes head* 
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disneybeauty
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This is sick, sick, sick . . .
Sad thing is, I've seen parents do worse things to their children. It's the one thing I hate about my job.
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katethegreat
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Totally sick and really, really sad 
There's a case being talked about here about whether or not a man was insane or not when he jumped off a balcony with his 2 children intending for all 3 of them to die after a fight with his wife. People claiming they were insane when they carried out these horrible acts to their children is worrying. Really worrying.
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wicked_boy
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^ That's been on litterally every programme today.
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Catherine
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I read that news story in the paper... so so so horrible.
Urgh, I hate people.
I think sometimes, these people are insane, but claiming they are just as an excuse is sick. So wrong.
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Set_Buildin_Dad
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I have no tollerance for people who abuse their children when something goes wrong in their life. Children are loving, trusting, and helpless. If these people are so immature that they need to take out agressions, they can go to a gym and hit a punching bag.
I also don't buy the insanity plea that has little or no repurcussions. If they plead insane they should be permanently locked up as a danger to society - which they are. None or this "oh, I'm cured now" baloney. These guys better hope I'm never on a jury at one of their trials.
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disneybeauty
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SBD, this "father" had better hope there are no parents on his jury.
I personally can't stand anyone who willfully harms a child, and I don't buy his insanity plea for a millisecond. I will probably get scewered for this, but I really feel that people who harm children should get sentenced to death. I don't think my tax money should go to fund their time in prison or pay for their "rehab". I believe there is a special place in hell for people who hurt children.
Sorry if that offends, but as a parent, may he Lord help the person that ever hurts my child, as I will never let them find a moment's peace until justice is found for my child.
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Set_Buildin_Dad
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| disneybeauty wrote: | SBD, this "father" had better hope there are no parents on his jury.
I personally can't stand anyone who willfully harms a child, and I don't buy his insanity plea for a millisecond. I will probably get scewered for this, but I really feel that people who harm children should get sentenced to death. I don't think my tax money should go to fund their time in prison or pay for their "rehab". I believe there is a special place in hell for people who hurt children.
Sorry if that offends, but as a parent, may he Lord help the person that ever hurts my child, as I will never let them find a moment's peace until justice is found for my child. |
Seconded. I was actually called for jury duty once in a child molestation case. The look on my face alone was enough to have the defense attorney dismiss me. If I had been selected I think I would have brought a noose to the trial and played with it in the jury box.
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disneybeauty
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The noose whould have been a nice touch . . .
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Salome
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8ts disgusting..but what does "hell" have to do with it. i wishj people would stop talking abstract myth and start tlaking about laws and punsishment here and now and not in some fantasy world.
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blue wind
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wtf?!??!!! what is his problem???!!!
was he just like "imma see what's gunna happen if i put a person in the microwave"
good lord. that sounds like something a stupid teenage boy would do......
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musictheatre00
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This was so random that I laughed at first, thinking YA RIGHT, but wow, that's just creepy, it makes me think about myself in a microwave oven...oww.
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disneybeauty
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I just read part of the original article from the Dallas newspaper. Evidently, the baby's mother refused to testifiy against this low-life. Hmmmmmm . . .
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kiwiholly
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What a fruit loop. I hope he gets his comeuppance. Poor wee girl! :O
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blackbird_fly
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People who do things like this should never be allowed out of jail, whether they're insane or not. None of this rehab talk.
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Monsieur D'Arque
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| Salome wrote: | | 8ts disgusting..but what does "hell" have to do with it. i wishj people would stop talking abstract myth and start tlaking about laws and punsishment here and now and not in some fantasy world. |
Salome, I appreciate your opinion, but I wish you wouldn't belittle the beliefs of others. A person's beliefs have every right to inform their decisions so long as they keep them within the boundaries of the law. Just because you disagree with another person's spiritual convictions or lack thereof is no reason to belittle them, especially in an emotional topic such as this, where one's faith may very well be involved in one's response.
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wicked_boy
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The only positive thing is at least the kid didn't actually die.
Other than that, we're (American's in this instance) are gonna have to pay a load of taxes to keep him alive on bread and water for the next however many years.
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disneybeauty
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Thankfully the baby didn't die, but she had to have, I think, 3 skin grafts and lost part of her ear because of the burns.
What makes me sad is that we will be paying for him to be in jail. It's sad that our justice system works this way. My brother is an attorney, and he has said in the past that in cases like this (injury to a child by a parent), it's almost better if the child does not survive because then the jury can give a stiffer sentence, and possibly the death penalty. It's sad that it potentially takes the death of a child to get justice.
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Catherine
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I don't believe in the death penalty, but lets not get into an arguement about that...
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disneybeauty
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yes, let's stay away from that particular discussion.
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Salome
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| Monsieur D'Arque wrote: | | Salome wrote: | | 8ts disgusting..but what does "hell" have to do with it. i wishj people would stop talking abstract myth and start tlaking about laws and punsishment here and now and not in some fantasy world. |
Salome, I appreciate your opinion, but I wish you wouldn't belittle the beliefs of others. A person's beliefs have every right to inform their decisions so long as they keep them within the boundaries of the law. Just because you disagree with another person's spiritual convictions or lack thereof is no reason to belittle them, especially in an emotional topic such as this, where one's faith may very well be involved in one's response. |
what i am saying is..you cant deal with a crime like this by talking abstracts..you use the law. not religion.
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jetblack_diva
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| disneybeauty wrote: | | I just read part of the original article from the Dallas newspaper. Evidently, the baby's mother refused to testifiy against this low-life. Hmmmmmm . . . |
so am I the only one that feels that if the mother would not testify that she may be doing things almost as horrible. Take that poor baby away from those freaks and give her to a family that can not physically have children. People like that just make me sick. How... I mean... what could make a person become that demented... I'm almost to the piont of tears. That makes me so angry!
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disneybeauty
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In a court of law a wife cannot be forced to take the stand against her husband. I am thinking that she may be suffering from "battered wife syndrome", where they love their attacker, and fear doing anything against them to cause them to get caught by the authorities. It's like a switch in their brain goes off and tells them they deserve to be beaten. The other part that I did not mention is that the baby girl is being taken care of by relatives in Texas, and the mother I think is living in Arkansas. This story is so wierd and demented on so many levels.
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