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| Boy's leg amputated after abuse |
| 2006-06-01 |
| Durham, North Carolina - A woman whose grandson had to have one of his legs amputated after he was abused was ordered to spend 14 days behind bars and one year on probation for her role in the case. Desiree Justice, who previously pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact, was sentenced on Tuesday. Prosecutor Mitchell Garrell told a judge that Justice was "the least culpable and most co-operative" of three defendants. The boy's mother, Tanekeia Justice, was sentenced to five to seven to years in prison after she pleaded guilty last month to felonious child abuse. Randall Hargraves, her boyfriend at the time of the abuse, also pleaded guilty in April. He faces 27 to 42 months in prison. Garrell said he believed the four-year-old boy, who was malnourished, was tied to a doorknob in 2004 to prevent him from trying to feed himself at night. When the boy tried to free himself, the restraining cord wound more tightly around his leg and cut off the blood supply, Garrell said. The child's leg was amputated below the knee. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 CF, not to mention the possibility of foster care or being shuttled from home to home. No one deserves that, these people need to meet the iron maiden. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-06-01 15:15 |
| #5 If these Muther Fahkin child killers make it out alive and end up in Minnesota, it WILL be painfull. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2006-06-01 15:04 |
| #4 This kind of shit makes my blood boil. Only 5 - 7 years? If they were years of continual beatings perhaps. But it will probably be 3 - 4 in a medium security prison followed by 'early release'. Meanwhile this poor kid has to go through his entire life with one leg. What I wonder is.... would the sentence have been more severe if instead of a boy it was an animal? Like a dog or a horse? Around here it seems that if an animal is abused the local newsmedia goes apeshit but if its a human... no big deal.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-06-01 14:47 |
| #3 We had a story like, judged a few months back, a little boy abused for years by his family including his grandmother, not sexually, but attached to a leash, forced to live with animals,... he finally died from hunger and mistreatment. Really sad, and disgusting. I don't remember the judgement, but I hope it was more severe than here (5-7 isn't just enough). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-01 14:38 |
| #2 JHC, I can't even imagine......I often scratch my head at stories like this and say WTF!? Man, that poor little boy. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-06-01 11:26 |
| #1 They oughta amputate those three losers heads. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-06-01 00:04 |