…und zu Recht zu 25 Jahre Haft verurteilt berichtet die bristische Zeitung Telegraph.

  

Man gets 25 years in jail for microwaving baby

A has jury sentenced a young father to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant daughter after putting her in a microwave and turning it on for up to 20 seconds.   Mauldin at first told police his daughter had been sunburned The jury had convicted Joshua Mauldin on injuring the child, rejecting his claims that he was insane when he put his daughter Ana in the microwave last year. Prosecutors had wanted him sentenced to the maximum of life in prison. Galveston County prosecutor Xochitl Vandiver said she was satisfied with the sentence. “It’s extremely important for people to know that just because this case was sensational, it doesn’t mean that (child abuse) goes away,” she said. “Child abuse is an important issue. It should be focused on.” Sam Cammack III, Mauldin’s attorney, had asked jurors to consider his client’s long history of mental illness and sentence him to probation so he could be treated at a hospital. “He still doesn’t get the treatment for mental illness that he needs,” Mr Cammack said. “He’s not going to get that in prison.”

Quelle: telegraph.co.uk/