Another terribly sad case

[wukter]

here

Some poor children never get a chance.
I can't imagine this woman will have an easy few years in Limerick prison.

Why would anyone beat their child for wetting the bed, FFS? Some people aren't fit to be human beings, never mind parents.

She only got 4 years, she'll be out in 2. Poor child.

So many childless people desperate for a chance and innocent kids are born to dogshit like this

and if she gets pregnant again and the baby is put into enforced care pending forced adoption there will be lots of mners outraged that they've been seperated

she doesnt deserve an easy few years.

i cannot comprehend how anyone could do this.

I doubt very much that they will be 'an easy few years'....

would love to be a fly on the wall in jail.

Hell slap ( no pun intended ) into her.

That is disgusting the child was not much more than a baby, not that any child deserves this. Hope she rots she should be sterilised before release.

Knowing a few Irish girls and knowing (a) how much they love their families and children (b) how feisty they are I rather suspect that the two years inside with her fellow inmates will seem an awful lot longer to her...

4 years isn't enough

nor is it going to help

she needs help, if she has been in such a state to allow that to happen

but when I hear these things I just think there but for God's grace go I.

I have lost my temper with my children before, thankfully I haven't injured them but I can see how it happens.

castigating her isn't going to stop it happening to someone else but it might stop someone seeking help when they feel close to breaking point.

There's too many cases of mothers killing their children these days. I think it reflects a simmering problem within the wider society. Mothers don't seem to be prepared to tolerate the frustration and boredom that inevitably accompanies motherhood. People these days are too selfish to put their own kids needs before their own. She probably flipped because she couldn't get a night out with her mates.

are there more cases of it? Or do we simply hear it reported more in the media?

"but when I hear these things I just think there but for God's grace go I.

I have lost my temper with my children before, thankfully I haven't injured them but I can see how it happens."

Seriously? It's normal to lose your temper with your childen, but very, very abnormal if it's to the point that beating them to death is a possibility. I am really struggling at the words "I can see how it happens".

No, I can see how injuring them happens.

From what I can gather it would not necessarily take a sustained attack to cause potentially life threatening injury to a small child.

You can kill a grown man if you hit them in the right place, or so I believe.

I'm not trying to defend this woman's actions but I do not see how a prison sentence is going to solve anything, though I understand how important it is she is kept away froms ociety while in such a dangerous and confused state.

We would all prefer to distance ourselves I'm sure from any notion that we would be anywhere near capable of this, and I think it's true that it's comparatively rare for a parent to kill a child in a situation such as this, but we must never become complacent.

Atomicsnowflake that is just the kind of ignorant remark that I am talking about...night out with her mates? God, she is going to be slaughtered in that jail.

Like everyone else in there is perfectly innocent!

What I mean to say is I can understand the horror and disbelief in the reactions of those on this thread

but it is reading like a daily mail comments list and/or a lynch mob

there is little, if any, insight