Toddler fight women spared jail

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Four Plymouth women who goaded toddlers into fighting and filmed it have been given 12-month suspended sentences.

Carole Olver, 48, and her three daughters, Zara, 29, Serenza, 29, and Danielle, 19, admitted child cruelty charges at Plymouth Crown Court.

During the case, seven minutes of video was shown. A boy wearing a nappy was called a "wimp" for not hitting his sister back after she struck him.

The four women are heard laughing as the toddlers are urged to fight.

The boy, aged two, is seen crying after being punched in the face by his three-year-old sister and is told by one of the four women in the room "not to be a wimp or a faggot" and to hit the girl back.

The children's mother pleaded guilty to causing or procuring the children to be ill treated in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury.

The other three pleaded guilty to jointly inciting the ill treatment of children.

Judge Francis Gilbert gave all four women from North Prospect in Plymouth a one-year suspended sentence, saying they posed no risk to the public. He also ordered them to do 100 hours of unpaid work.

The children are in the care of the parents of their father, who is a member of the armed forces.

Speaking after the case, investigating officer Det Sgt Barry Walters said: "Anyone watching this footage showing grown adults encouraging very young children committing unnatural acts would have been sickened and saddened.

"We have been in touch with child protection teams across the country and to my knowledge this is the first time that something like this has ever gone to court."

He said the sentencing was the "decision of the judge".

"Our priority and the priority of their family is the children.

"They are in a very supportive family who wish to bring them up the best way they can."

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6574907.stm

[Fandango 1,439]

Jeez just when I think people can't shock me anymore

[Ban Hammer 13,465]

Jeez just when I think people can't shock me anymore

i vote for mandatory sterilization of the mother

[Ladylethal 12]

People can't shock me anymore. Now I'll buy anything and just think "What a ***** up world".

[Nagishkaw 510]

As if pitbulls and roosters are not enough !

[Sinergy 3]

i vote we put her in a cage with someone bigger and meaner and call her a wimp when she curls in the corner crying after being hit in the face.

This kinda stuff what they did to those kids really piss me off!!! gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ivona 0]

i vote for mandatory sterilization of the mother

:thumbs:

if you show you are not responsible enough to be a parent, you do not get to be one- for me, it's that simple

[Saddle Bronc 124]

i vote we put her in a cage with someone bigger and meaner and call her a wimp when she curls in the corner crying after being hit in the face.

How about multiple SMALLER but meaner creatures such as (gang of) grey langurs, spider monkeys, bandicoots, dholes, ...

[Sinergy 3]

sounds groovy to me

[Caladan 19]

What, she was just trying to train him to rush gunmen in school shootings!

[Jenn! 918]

What? Weren't they just trying to address the wussifying of our culture issue?

ETA: Dammit, Caladan!

Edited April 20, 2007 by jenn3539

[eric&gen 0]

Why don't the parents be thrown in a cage. Have a crowd of drunk adults calling them names like wimp etc faggot and force the parents to punch each other in the face lol.

[Robor007 0]

What, she was just trying to train him to rush gunmen in school shootings!

What? Weren't they just trying to address the wussifying of our culture issue?

ETA: Dammit, Caladan!

You two are going to break a lot of sarcasm meters with posts like that.

Edited April 20, 2007 by Robor007

[homesick_american 1]

Bloody CHAV-TASTIC!

[almaty 19]

that chopf##k, just worng