Sentenced to Live

All the "a good mother would have doen this" and "a good mother would have done that" speculations in the world do not constitute evidence. A horrible crime took place. Let's hope that the jurors guessed right and that this mother deserves her conviction and her many years ahead in a cage. Let all of us as potential citizen juors also resolve not to assuage our anger about horrors inflicted by criminals by leaping to inflict horrors of criminal punishment on accused persons when real evidence of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt does not exist. Our system depends on the integrity of juros who undersatnd that the buck stops with them in making the gulit or innocence call and that when they presume guilt, they become the intruments of injustice. The innocence Project has revealed this all too often in recent years, as new DNA technology in a handful of cases can indisoutably prove wrongful convictions. How many more have been sent to the dungeons with erroneous convictions for which no DNA or other absolute proof of innocence is possible?

Finally the parents are getting what they deserve. Anyone with an average income would have been charged immediately, but these two, with their wealthy connections avoided that for an unheard of amount of time. So happy to see them go down. We've had three babies, and I just can't imagine ever hurting an infant. Something is so seriously wrong with these people. And for the mother not to notice, most mothers notice and worry about every little rash, reaction, etc. I don't believe for a minute that she didn't notice. And the pediatrician? Glad she wasn't in charge of my kids.

Both of these parents should spend the rest of their lives in jail in solitary confinement. I really wish that they could somehow be given the death penalty. What right do they have to continue living their lives when they took the life of their little baby, and so cruelly? I hope the father, who I firmly believe inflicted all the deadly blows that eventually caused the death of this baby, suffers for the rest of his life. I just lost my two-year old grandson to brain cancer. My daughter and her husband and all the doctors and nurses in Sloan-Kettering did all they could do to save his life, but this deadly cancer took him. What my daughter would not have given to have been able to save his life.