Words just...fail me.

[IceDragon]

I just can't believe that...hel, just read this for yourself. If you have kids, or even if you don't, I think you might be shocked by this. I know it caught me out.

Sam Jones
Saturday February 25, 2006
The Guardian


A father who tortured and battered his three-month-old son to death because he was jealous of the attention the baby's mother showed him was jailed for life yesterday.
By February last year, Paul O'Neil, 33, had grown so angered by his partner's love for their son, Aaron, that he held his face against a gas fire. Four days later, after spending hours drinking and smoking cannabis with friends, he returned to the home he shared with his partner, Jodie Taylor, 21. He waited for Taylor to visit her mother before killing Aaron by shaking him and either hitting the baby's head or striking it against hard surface.
A post-mortem examination revealed 37 separate injuries and marks on Aaron's body, caused by a catalogue of non-accidental burns, bruises and broken bones during his 92-day life.
Some of the injuries, among them a healing skull fracture, had been inflicted days or weeks earlier, Newcastle crown court heard. There was also evidence of a cigarette burn on Aaron's shoulder and a scalding injury.

Paul Worsley QC, prosecuting, said jealousy had been the motive for Aaron's murder. "The defendant resented Aaron and the way Jodie Taylor gave him attention. He held his face to the fire to punish him," Mr Worsley said. "He inflicted serious harm, which caused so many bones in his little body to be broken."

"The defendant was alone with Aaron when he collapsed and alone with him when he was repeatedly burned.

"He was responsible for all those injuries and kept Jodie Taylor in such fear that she dare not take Aaron to a doctor."

O'Neil, of Banbury Road, Kenton, Newcastle, had admitted cruelty but denied murder and five charges of GBH with intent between November 2004 and February 2005. The jury was unable to reach verdicts on three charges of GBH, which the judge ordered to lie on file. O'Neil was jailed for life, with a recommendation he serve at least 22 years. He was also sentenced to 14 years for GBH and five years for cruelty, both to run concurrently to the life sentence.

Passing sentence, Judge David Hodson, the recorder of Newcastle, said O'Neil had apparently treated his son without "a scrap of compassion or a morsel of remorse". He added: "Aaron was entitled to expect that as his son you would care and attend for him."

Judge Hodson jailed Taylor for three-and-a-half years, telling her she had "failed as a mother" in not protecting Aaron.

It emerged after the trial that O'Neil had fathered five children by two other women before meeting Taylor, and that his access to those children had been restricted because he had been violent towards them and their mothers.

It was revealed that the local Safeguarding Children board had commissioned a report into Aaron's death, which discovered that Taylor's probation officer was concerned about the baby's welfare after hearing of her pregnancy.

The officer alerted social services who looked into the threat O'Neil posed. Despite completing an initial child protection assessment, they failed to protect Aaron. The report said cooperation between the parents and social worker and health visitor was "superficial" and in the case of the O'Neil "non-existent".

Catherine Fitt, executive director of children's services at Newcastle city council, said health and social workers should have done more to see the baby.

What the HEL is wrong with people? It's nice to see the judge actually dealing out a stiff sentence for once, but why the hel wasn't something done before then?

[yanks123]

we should do everything to keep this guy alive...and torture him slowly.Every type of toture that exists should be used on this guy and we should use every medical possibility to keep him alive. Wow, teh baby was like 3 months old, people r messed up

[bass generator]

the only consolation is he will get what he deserves in prison.
sick bastard.

[AnimalOnly]

What piece of trash.. This guy will burn in hell

[IceDragon]

Originally Posted by bass generator

the only consolation is he will get what he deserves in prison.
sick bastard.

No, they'll put him both on suicide watch and in isolation away from the rest of the prison population, which I don't think is fair.

This son of a bitch deserves to die slowly and with as much pain as it's possible to inflict.

[bass generator]

prison should be like it was 20 years ago then,when they were all in together and rapists,child killers ect always got what was coming to them.

[IceDragon]

You'll have to go back far more than 20 years - the Moores Murderers were held away from the prison populace even then because of what they'd have done to them.

I still say that they should have let them have it...they'd have been picking up the pieces for a week, but at least it's something for what they did to Lesley Ann and the other kids they tortured and killed.

[anaiya]

Originally Posted by IceDragon

No, they'll put him both on suicide watch and in isolation away from the rest of the prison population, which I don't think is fair.

This son of a bitch deserves to die slowly and with as much pain as it's possible to inflict.

Trust me that his mind will make sure to torture him!

[psych]

i remember a case recently where this guy had an argument with his gf(wife?) and he was angry he grabbed the child and just threw the baby as you do when you spike a ball after a touchdown

up to this day i still cant believe people would actually do that to a child much less a baby...

[Woden]

Originally Posted by AnimalOnly

What piece of trash.. This guy will burn in hell

Unfortunately he won't. This is one of the times I almost wish I was religous, so I could feel better about what happens to a vile glob of skunk **** like this. God damn, this is mother****ing infuriating. 22 years? What the hell is wrong with this country? LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.

But oh wait, I almsot forgot, this is America where we give 22 years to drug dealers...............and people who torture babies to death. What the **** is wrong with politicians? People should just start walking up to politicians and judges when they speak and public and kicking them in the balls. Everything about this is so ****ed.