If I was able to reach a wide audience, the social issue I would campaign for is stricter and more con-sistent jail terms given for the charge of Injury to a Child. The jail time for this charge differs from state-to-state, but also from county-to-county within those states. While researching this subject, I found sentences for Injury to a Child in Texas that ranged from two years up to thirty-eight years. The following are examples of fathers hurting their children, one of which resulted in the child’s death. Anton Juel Henry (30) of Waco, Texas, pled “guilty to murder and injury to a child,” as a part of a plea deal, in connection to the 2014 death of one of his two-month-old twin boys (Carroll 2017). He was given a forty-eight-year prison sentence for the murder charge and …show more content…
of Conroe, Texas, pled guilty to Injury to a Child in connection to the 2009 injury of his three-month-old son; there was evidence that there had been multiple incidences of abuse (Engle 2011). Welker was sentenced to thirty-five-years with the possibility of parole (2011). John Stephen Davis (22) of Waco, Texas was arrested in 2009 for injuring his three-month old daughter (Talbert 2009). Doctors determined there were two separate incidents of abuse that resulted in injury (2009). Davis is serving a ten-year prison term for the incident (“John Stephen Davis” n.d.). Currently, sentences vary based on mental state, injury, and offense level (Benson-Varghese 2017). The three levels of mental state include “intentionally or knowingly caused”, caused by recklessness or negligence (2017). Injuries are differentiated as: 1) “serious mental deficiency, impairment or injury”, 2) “serious bodily injury” or 3) “bodily injury to a child” (2017). Offense levels range from state jail felony up to first degree felony (2017). When Injury to a Child is determined to be a state jail felony offense, the jail term ranges from 180 days up to two years (2017); however, if it
Because the girl was under 12 at the time of the alleged offense, the first-degree felony carries a potential penalty of life in prison.
If the offender has a standard offense of abuse or neglect, it will be classified as a Class C felony and they will serve their sentence for at least one year before being eligible for parole or probation. If the offender has multiple offenses, they will not become eligible for at least five years. In the worst case scenario where the child dies, the offense will become a Class A felony and the offender will not be able to get parole or probation for at least 15 years of serving their sentence. It also becomes a Class A felony if there is serious emotional or physical injury, the child is less than 14 years of age, and the injury is the result of sexual abuse. (Missouri General Assembly,
In the Case State of Florida vs. Fernandez, Cristian, June 2, 2011, Fernandez, a 12-year-old Jacksonville, Florida boy, is charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the beating death of his 2 year old half-brother and the sexual abuse of his 5 year old half-brother. The State of Florida is seeking a “to life without parole” conviction.
prison for up to 6 months (or up to 12 months for more than 1 crime)
The most serious charge, a third-degree felony, carries a potential sentence of up to three years in prison.
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez proclaimed that a Gravesend man has been charged on murder and other charges. This is after the New York City Medical Examiner revealed that the beating caused the death of his girlfriends 3-year-old-son Jaden Jorden. Earlier in December he was charged with assault.
They additionally used the testimony of the mother, saying that she had suspected Rachell in light of the fact that he coordinated her child's description of his attacker. In June, 2003, he was finally convicted and sentenced to spend the next 40 years in prison.
Robert Davis was a retired elementary school teacher (Pace, G. 2005). The incident took place in 2005, he was then sixty-four (Pace, G. 2005). He had returned to New Orleans to simply check on a relative’s property after Hurricane Katrina hit (Pace, G. 2005). He would later be arrested and brutally beaten on suspicion of intoxication (Victim, 2005). Conversely, Davis would later testify he was not intoxicated (Pace,
Eli’s mother testified that Darren had kicked the boy in the stomach the night of his death and she was sentenced to tem months in the county jail. Darren Creekmore was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to sixty years in prison. He is currently appealing his sentence.
A previous cased Persky was involved in was one of an athlete Ikaika Gunderson. According to Travis Andrews of The Washington Post, Gunderson confessed to the police that he choked and beat his girlfriend; he faced a felony charge of domestic violence, but Persky delayed the sentencing so that Gunderson could attend University of Hawaii and play football; Persky stated that if Gunderson finished a year of a domestic violence program and attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he would reduce the felony charge to a misdemeanor. Eventually, Gunderson stopped the domestic violence
Our Bakersfield personal injury legal department is in charge of traffic and travel injuries and other accidents such as in swimming pools, slips, trips and falls and workers compensation. It also includes what we call tort cases, such as medical malpractice, product liability, wrongful arrests and dog bites. Most cases are taken on a contingency basis. This means there is no fee unless there is a recovery. Types of Personal Injury Cases we represent include: Car and auto accidents , Serious auto accidents, Vehicle roll over accidents, Truck accidents, Semi-Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents, , Animal bites, Slip and falls, Nursing home neglect, Nursing home abuse, Elder abuse, Pedestrian accidents, Defective products, Defective medical devices, Construction site injuries and Medical malpractice
The juvenile offender also pled guilty in a court of law, regarding his possession of a
However, it is hard to establish the liability for this tort due to the low number of case-law, and even then, they are mostly conflicting. In Wainwright v Home Office, the courts have held that the defendant needs to at least have acted recklessly “without caring as to whether they caused harm”; simply emotional distress is not enough. This case approved the definition in Wong v Parkside NHS Trust, with the degree of harm being such that the defendant “cannot … say that he did not “mean” to do it” (the intention being a combination of likelihood of harm and deliberate engagement). More recently, in Rhodes v OPO it was held that the defendant must have intended to cause physical harm or severe mental or emotional
Child abuse is a felony, level five. The punishment varies from 2.5 years to eleven years in prison and a fine of $300,000. Child endangerment is a class A person misdemeanor one year in jail $2,500 fine. Aggravated child
The current problem is the continued rise in child abuse and neglect today. Within the United States, the problem of child abuse and neglect is far much common than most people would like to admit. Sanchez (2012) stated that child maltreatment is a global epidemic and a major social problem in the United States resulting in at least 740, 000 visits to hospital emergency departments and more than $124 in child welfare, criminal justice, and health care. Norman, Byambaa, De, Butchart, Scott, and Vos (2012) also observed that child abuse and neglect is a global problem that is mostly perpetrated by parental guardians and parents. Sexual abuse is the infringement of a child’s