Baby in microwave father to be jailed

[Fluoxetine]

A young father has been convicted of badly injuring his infant daughter by putting her in a microwave in a Texas hotel room, with jurors rejecting his claim he was insane at the time.
Jurors deliberated for about four hours before finding 20-year-old Joshua Mauldin guilty of felony injury to a child.

After the verdict, they deliberated Mauldin's punishment for two hours without a decision. They were set to resume deliberating on Wednesday.
Mauldin faces anything from probation to life in prison.
He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, saying he was having a psychotic episode when he put his then two-month-old daughter, Ana, in a hotel microwave for 10 to 20 seconds last May while her mother and grandmother were away.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080325/2/169dw.html

What a sicko to do that to a baby.

[Glowy]

I have no words.. I am truly sick to my bones

[aranarose]

The whole insanity plea thing is a copout that pisses me off. I'm sorry, but yeah, a jackass pretty much has to be insane to do something that sick, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be responsible for his own actions. Sick people should be held responsible because they didn't get the help they needed to prevent themselves from doing something.

[Meadhbh]

Thats horrible. Of course he's insane but no sane member of society would do that. But in this case I get the feeling that he knew what he was doing but is using the insanity plea to get out of trouble.

[Happydeadkitty]

You need a license to drive a car, but anybody can have a baby. That's just dandy.


HDK

[Sequoia]

That's... fucked up. Seriously.

[Jeremy Westenn]

The whole insanity plea thing is a copout that pisses me off. I'm sorry, but yeah, a jackass pretty much has to be insane to do something that sick, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be responsible for his own actions. Sick people should be held responsible because they didn't get the help they needed to prevent themselves from doing something.

The vast majority of all insanity pleas do not pace, in fact it's like something on the lines of 3% if memory serves right are accepted by jurors. That's because most of insanity pleas are less then honest.

[Sacredsin]

Link is broken. :(

[Fluoxetine]

Link is broken. :(

Link sorted. You can read the full story on Yahoo news website.

[la tortuga]

:( Man this makes me sad. I think the insanity plea is stupid, I get the feeling he knew fully well what he was doing.

All the messed up young child news is coming from Texas recently :(

[misty]

Sometimes I think we should be a society that lives by the old Code of Hammurabi. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Or in this case, nuke for a nuke. Dumbass.

[Stormbeard]

Sometimes I think we should be a society that lives by the old Code of Hammurabi. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Or in this case, nuke for a nuke. Dumbass.
I really, really don't.

[DaNcInG_WiNd]

Sick fucker.

[Evinmeer]

Wow, he is going to be reamed when the other inmates hear what he's in for. Kill a man, you're cool; in for drugs, no worries - but fuck with an animal or a child, and you will literally have nowhere to hide for the next X amount of years served. He'd better hope he gets solitary.

[Stormbeard]

Wow, he is going to be reamed when the other inmates hear what he's in for. Kill a man, you're cool; in for drugs, no worries - but fuck with an animal or a child, and you will literally have nowhere to hide for the next X amount of years served. He'd better hope he gets solitary.
He'll be a protected prisoner.