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Published: Wed, March 26, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Last Updated: Wed, March 26, 2008 - 3:07 pm
GALVESTON (AP) - A jury in Galveston, Texas, has sentenced ayoung father to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant
daughter when he put her in a microwave and turned it on for up to
20 seconds.
Jurors deliberated for 6 1/2 hours over two days before
sentencing Joshua Mauldin today. They also fined him $10,000.
The jury rejected Mauldin's claims he was insane when he stuffed
his daughter Ana, then 2 months old, in the microwave and convicted
him of felony injury to a child.
Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence.
Mauldin's attorney asked jurors to consider Mauldin's long
history of mental illness and give him probation so he could be
treated outside prison.
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How in the world does ANYONE…ANYONE do something like that to a child? I freak out if someone does anything even slightly out of the way to my child…..where is the mom?
And if the man had such an extensive history of mental problems…why did they leave a helpless infant alone with him?
Kids these days dont stand a chance because worthless excuses for parents are allowed to keep their children and dont have JUSTICE served on them when they do abuse their kids.
SAD SAD.