Posted on 01/17/2008 4:33:46 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
The 9-year-old boy went outside without his godmother's permission. His punishment was to sit in a bathtub as the woman filled it with five pots of boiling water.
When he emerged from the scalding water, the lower half of his body was covered in severe burns. The woman waited four days to take him to a hospital.
The facts read into the court record during Shamia Lawson's plea agreement in November were horrific, making her punishment yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court all the more shocking to city prosecutors and the boy's relatives: six months behind bars. Lawson, 25, had been caring for her godson for several years at her West Baltimore apartment. She also has a young daughter of her own - whom she may be able to keep in her home.
She temporarily lost custody of the girl after the boy was burned, but city child protective services "saw fit to return her daughter to her," Nicholas Comaromi, Lawson's defense attorney, said in court yesterday. Lawson had been out on bail until yesterday.
"This is a person we want walking streets and raising another child?" asked Assistant State's Attorney Julie Drake after the court hearing yesterday. "I was astounded and bitterly disappointed at the sentence."
The boy's relatives also expressed disbelief about the jail term. His grandfather, Alvin Fairley, noted plainly, "You get more time for hurting a dog than you do for hurting a child."
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In that light, what nerve the city leaders of Baltimore have in siding with another crime cauldron, namely Washington DC, in the DC vs. Heller case. Horrifying blue state urban hellhole where you can inflict unimaginable violence against a little boy and get a few months in the county jail and at the same time they're telling the rest of America what ought to be done about crime.
Baltimore should be so embarrassed that they go down to their basements and drink anti-freeze out of pure shame. Either that, or sit in their running cars in the garage while the garage door is down.
Naturally, they needs mo' money to solve their self-engineered urban problems, I'm sure. That's the solution. Gotta be. Democrats with more money will fix it!
She should be scalded for at least 6 months before starting the rest of her life in prison!
I somehow don’t think she gets the point behind that whole “godmother” thing.
Some folks just need killin’, if you ask me.
9 year old grandson of a 25 year old grandmother???
This animal has a degree in criminal justice? Enrolled in a master’s program? Give me five minutes alone with her and she will see some justice.
h, godmother!!!...need to put on my reading glasses!
Shamia Lawson !
That is a nice Amish name!
Sick. That punishment sounds like something out of Islam.
Sharia law would have the boy sentenced to 200 lashes for bathing in front of a non-relative.
Here in Kansas City a psycho burned her nine year old childrens’ feet with boiling water and two of them died. She will never see the light of day again.
Don't be silly. You know they drink blood, and they need a stake through the heart and a garlic enema.
She temporarily lost custody of the girl after the boy was burned, but city child protective services "saw fit to return her daughter to her,"
I was planning to defend Child Protective Services agencies as a necessary evil (due to such cases), but now I can't even do that. What a shame.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
I agree, but in this state, if I publicly proclaimed such, most of the other residents would die of shock or labor under the delusion that I wanted another Auschwitz.
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