Again our legal system brings itself into disrepute with the pathetic sentencing in the Laura Jane Vestuto case, this is the 28 year old mother who murdered her son so she could get some peace and quiet.
Baby Renzo Hassan was fed crushed anti depressant pills to keep him sedated and thus quiet, 20 month old Renzo stopped breathing after being fed ten times the normal dose in one feed.
She pleaded guilty and though she was told by the Judge that she was completely self obsessed and selfish, he only sentenced her to six years, taking into account the time on remand she will serve less than 2 years.
She should be jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years this poor child has had his life snuffed out because he CRIED, for Christs sake that is what baby’s do, the defenceless toddler was unable to protect himself and the person that he would have looked to for that protection, the person who he was the closest to in his short life, hers was the first face he saw when he entered this world and sadly also the last, let him down in the cruellest most evil way imaginable by taking his life.
Taking all this into account and with no mitigating circumstances like a possible mental illness The “Judge” who’s duty it was to dish out justice on Renzo’s behalf, the Judge who is part of the system that couldn’t help Renzo when he was alive, spurns the opportunity to make it up to him in death by letting his murderer get away with a paltry two years though she robbed her own baby of all of his life.
This looks like a perfect case where the CPS, the Crown Prosecution Service should appeal the leniency of the sentence, And we should look at the Judge Peter Thornton QC and get an explanation into his thinking when sentencing this woman.
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