One of the most heart breaking stories of the year

[mjn]

BBC NEWS | England | South Yorkshire | Toddler's back 'broken by father'

[Stoatman]

Truley tragic and incredibly upsetting , I have a 2 year old myself.

[FunkyMunkey]

That's sad... I can't understand how you could do that to a baby.

There was an interesting discussion on the radio about cases like this. If someone commits a crime like this (assuming he gets put away), once he's released he'll be free to go/do wherever he wants and potentially mistreat another child in the same way.

Yet if someone else commits the exact same crime, but with a sexual element, he'd have to be listed on the sex offenders register and be tracked for X years, even though both people probably pose the same amount of danger. It's a strange, very hyprocritical situation.

[quarry2006]

I didn't want to read this and I went ahead and clicked on it so I've only myself to blame for what I'm feeling now.

As a father of a two and four-year old, my response to this kind of story is more heightened than it used to be (my reaction used to be one of sickening horror; now my initial thought is "just give me five minutes with the person who did this". And that's not just pseduo-macho b/s, it's just my genuine, instinctive response.).

Oddly, I find these kind of stories more upsetting than the stories that have a sexual nature to them. Maybe I've accepted paedophilia - as abhorrent as it is - to be a genuine illness (although I'm not sure if it's something that can be cured) whereas simple violence is harder to quantify.

[Decadence]

I'm with you on it...these types of people need to be made infertile as part of their sentence.

[FunkyMunkey]

Originally Posted by quarry2006

Maybe I've accepted paedophilia - as abhorrent as it is - to be a genuine illness (although I'm not sure if it's something that can be cured) whereas simple violence is harder to quantify.

Strangely enough, that was part of what was being discussed on the show I listened to. They said we either have to accept that paedophilia is a genuine mental illness and "treat" people accordingly, or that these people are simply bad or criminal - in which case they serve their time like everyone else and are free at the end of it. We seem to have it both ways at the mo: they are locked up for so many years, but then have are kept on the sex offenders register because we think they can't be trusted. But can they be trusted any less than your average person convicted of murder, manslaughter or GBH?

I'm not a parent, so I couldn't definitely say which would be worse: my child being killed or molested.

[Razor]

I would like to be locked in a room with these parents and cause them serious injury.

People like this don't deserve to live IMO.

[Jenn]

I feel physically sick thinking about the pain the poor baby had to go through.

[Pecker]

It's very sad.

Whenever this sort of thing comes on the news I always feel terrible, and Me Julie usually cries.

Steve W

[SPURS1882]

Find the nearest Tree. Hang the scum.

[eric pisch]

i feel physically sick

[w3dal]

just by looking at the title of the link.

i wont be able to read this

Dal

[SimonH]

Couldn't get past the first couple of lines.

To distressing.

Just put him down and stop him from ever breeding again and causing another the same pain.

Lethal injection.. oh yeah and make it painful while he goes for good measure.

My issue is why is somebody like this EVER allowed out.

What more could you do before a court decides you are NEVER safe or trusted enough to ever be allowed to mix with other human beings again.

I kid you not, come the revolution, I would lock this guy up until the day he dies, no parole, no second chances, nothing.

The pain that poor child must have been in..

I want to BREAK HIS F*****ING BACK

EVIL BASTARD
*sorry mods*

[AJUK]

Poor kid, how anyone could hurt a childs like that is beyond me, he's not fit to be called a human being.

[Filipino]

Death penalty is too lenient for this monster.