Posted on 04/04/2023 10:23:23 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
An Idaho couple convicted of starving their adopted daughter before she went into cardiac arrest won’t serve any prison time for the sickening crime, a judge reportedly ruled last week.
Byron and Gwendalyn Buthman were slapped with four years of probation and 300 hours of community service last Tuesday by Judge Darla Williamson, who ruled that jail time would hurt the four adoptive kids they still have.
The judge additionally withheld judgment, which means if the couple follows the rules of probation their conviction could be vacated — a ruling that led to some gasps in the courtroom, the Idaho Statesman reported.
The pair were convicted in June 2022 for mistreating the young girl and they were each previously in jail for one day and were credited with time served.
The judge’s decision comes after prosecutors requested the Buthmans face 20 years behind bars with at least five years in the slammer before parole could be considered, according to a news release from the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office.
The prosecutor’s office detailed the neglect and mistreatment the girl, named E.B. in court, faced under her adopted parents’ care from age 3 to 6, including only allowing her to eat vegetable powder substance for food and sleeping in a laundry room without bedding.
The girl testified she was so hungry that she ate toilet paper after she was locked in the bathroom, the prosecutor’s office said.
The depraved malnourishment and forcing the girl to stand outside in cold temperatures in just a diaper led her to go into cardiac arrest in October 2017, which she survived but continued to face abuse afterward, prosecutors said.
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What is wrong with these judges?
Evil parents. Evil judge. That poor child.
>> What is wrong with these judges?
demons.
She, in essence, overturned the jury verdict. Who sends a five year old outside in just a diaper.
This really reminds me of the infamous couple Seth Welch and tatiana fusari but they got life. There’s just no equality in justice outcomes or even close it seems.
Why not take those 4 remaining children away now, before they get starved like that little girl did?
This country is moving from legally killing infants to legally killing anybody you want. Homicide is now becoming legal. Friggin’ turd rolling DemonRAT murderers have officially become THE PARTY OF DEATH.
>> Who sends a five year old outside in just a diaper.
demonic influence. Develop understanding of the times.
Apparently Judge Darla Williamson would and wants to see what this couple will come up with for the other four kids.
Who is more monstrous, the couple or the judge?
Horrific... What is wrong with people?
The young girl in this story at the top survived. Still, at the very least, the parents should've lost custody of their other children. Instead, the judge sent them right back to them.
No no no F’ this. Why do they still have any children period? They’re a menace to children. F’ this.
I don’t know who’s worse, our criminals or our judges.
One thing’s for sure... These two need their clocks cleaned.
What is wrong with these judges?
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If it were my call, there’d be a serious investigation into that judge, those parents, the local child welfare office and I’d be looking for a pediatrician and therapist, all as part of a “pedo nest”.
Those things are real.
I wish the people that make these decisions would have a big ol slice of karma.
remember the case where the husband murdered his wife and he got like 5 little yrs because of his connections apparently.
Women shouldn’t be judges.
My thoughts exactly.
How are they rating this special privilege? Anyone else would’ve lost their children to CPS long before sentencing.
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