Friday, November 16, 2007

Woman faces 60 years after scalding baby

These are the kinds of cases i just don't understand. Is civilization, as we know it, gone crazy? The stories with this magnitude of insanity should require an examination on the suspect and then be put through extensive psychological tests to see what was it that happened.

In Christmas of 2005, Valerie Kennedy, 32, held her 3-year-old son, Jaquez Mason, in a ub of sclading water. The toddler passed away a week later. Just last month, almost two years since the incident, Kennedy was convicted of aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse. She has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. That is the maximum she can serve.

For more information, go to, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/310532.html

1 comment:

Indigo Red said...

I wrote about little Jaquez last January. Commenters asked for updates and now I can provide one.

The mother deserves every moment of the 60 years and more. The 9 yr old daughter who testified against her mother is a hero for doing so. The grandmother and the 'husband' should also serve time because they knew what had happened and did nothing to stop the pain.

I'm still baffled, after 53 yrs of life, how anyone could hurt a defensless child. Jaquez is only one case out of thousands every year, every month, every day. So many. Too many.