To think this man should have been jailed!?

[Tootlesmummy]

There is a story today on the BBC new website about a man who put a baby wipe up the bottom of a 3 month old baby boy to stop him soiling his nappy!?

WTF.......

This story is made even more worse as the guy has only been 'admonished' and not jailed? The baby had to undergo surgery for a perforated bowel and they're not sure if the baby will fully recover.
I am both and for this poor little baby boy.

The article also says the baby was whimpering in pain and that alerted the mother that there was something wrong. He must have been in agony.
The guy also tried to remove it himself!

Without access to the full facts of the case and the reports the court would have seen you can't really judge, but on the face of it the guy surely seems more bonkers than malicious?

I read the story on the BBC web site and it made me feel quite sick thinking about the pain that poor little baby must have been in, but it did sound like he hadn't meant deliberate harm to the baby.

I know that doesn't excuse it in a way - it was a terrible and stupid thing to do. But I still feel you should make a distinction between a deliberate act of violence and harm caused by accident or ignorance.

As squireel says, we dom't have full access to the facts of the case and it might well be that the man is now truly remorseful and definitely knows better, so a custodial sentence would serve no purpose other than to cost the tax payer money.

No - anyone knows you can't force anything up an infant's anus. There is no excuse - fcuking idiot.

And yes he should have been dealt with more severely than he was.

If he had a mental illness or was disabled in some way that caused him to not think straight then he should have been dealt with in such a way that he couldn't harm another child/baby.

Either way he got away with a terrible thing that the child is going to have to live with forever.

Fucking idiot. When are we going to stop dangerously inadequate people having children?

A one strike and you're sterilised rule.

It would be nigh on impossible to convict somebody for something they havnt done but once you've done something so stupid/negligent/abusive you should never, ever be in a position to repeat that stupidity/negligence/abuse.

If the perpetrator won't agree to sterilization and zero contact with children then jail would be the next step.

This is horrific. What a horrible story.

Agree with others that it may have just been stupidity rather than anything malicious but it does seem crazy that you can leave a 3 month old close to death and receive only a telling off.

From the BBC story he doesn't appear to be the babies Father - any idea who he actually is?

It isn't clear, but I read it the same as you that he wasn't the father.

WTF!!!! Don't give a toss if it wasn't malicious etc. Would anyone put up with that if the person 'didn't think/realise' etc if it was their child?

Bang him up! That poor baby. It doesn't take a genius to know that you don't do that sort of thing.

I'd love to shove a packet of wipes up his backside and see how he feels...maybe that would encourage some common sense in the future. I mean- malicious or not- what the Hell was he thinking?

Seriously! WHAT was he thinking?

'I don't want to change a pooey nappy so I will fashion a baby tampon from a wipe and stick it up his ass?'

Fucking freak.

What did he think was going to happen?!

To do it is bad enough but to then try and fish it back out with his fingers!....

I could not believe the sentence, or the crime. Both make me feel sick. That poor child, and they say he may not recover.

I could not believe the sentence, or the crime. Both make me feel sick. That poor child, and they say he may not recover.

It soesn't really matter whether he meanbt to do the baby harm, or not, does it? He did do him, harm and is clearly not mentally capable of parenthood.