Mother Sentenced For Cutting of part of Son's Tongue: Probation. WTF?

[elehhhhna]

Mother Sentenced For Cutting Son's Tongue

POSTED: 5:41 am EDT August 2, 2006
UPDATED: 10:34 am EDT August 2, 2006

ATLANTA -- A mother accused of cutting off part of her son's tongue with hot scissors avoided a 5-year prison sentence and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
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Henry County prosecutors had recommended that Davis serve five years in prison. But the boy's father testified Tuesday that he did not want her to go to prison.
"He told the judge she is a good woman, and he doesn't feel his son is unsafe around her," Davis' lawyer, Rickey L. Richardson, said.

Davis heated a pair of scissors on a stove in August 2004 and held it to her 6-year-old son's neck before cutting off a piece of his tongue as punishment for talking back, authorities said. Her estranged husband, Toby Davis reported the injuries to police and she was arrested.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9613151/detail.html?rss=atl&psp=news

[cynatnite]

1. What the fuck???

:puke:

I have no words to describe my outrage. :grr:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. What??!!

People are going to jail for real time for a few joints, and she gets PROBATION???

Ahhh...She probably goes to "the right church".

[charlie]

8. Ayup

Looks like you could be right. Goddamn.

The attorney for a Stockbridge woman charged with child cruelty said she is a very loving and religious person, but that she’s also very “scared.”

“She’ll call me crying,” said Rickey L. Richardson, the attorney for Samantha J. Davis, 33, who is accused of holding hot scissors to her six-year-old son’s cheek because of repeated disobedience. “She understands that no circumstance justifies chastising a child with hot scissors,” said Richardson.

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Richardson said he does not believe that his client intended any malice.

“Ten or 15 minutes of indiscretion has taken her life and turned it upside down. She wishes that she could take the situation back and not be in it,” he said.

Richardson said that Davis has never been in trouble before or since the incident, and that she was applying principles that she had learned in Bible study and Sunday school when the incident happened.

http://www.henryherald.com/local/local_story_200234739.html?keyword=secondarystory

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. Where the FUCK does she go to church?

St. Joseph of Mengele?

Sweet Bleedin' Jesus on a Garage Creeper, is there no end to the jaded, faded, gnarled and twisted religion-spouting fucks anymore?

Man, this makes me think dark and evil thoughts of retribution and revenge. Thankfully, it will pass and she lives thousands of miles away.

Note: She WILL do this again. Know it. Or something incrementally worse.

[charlie]

19. Yeah, I'm certain of that too

She'll do it again. This'll probably kick her piety into full gear and she'll be a maelstrom of religious rectitude and squirmy impulses. I hope there's always someone with a bat nearby when she's around the kid.

[elehhhhna]

21. 10 bucks says she's done crazy nasty shit BEFORE this too.

[elehhhhna]

20. principles that she had learned in Bible study and Sunday school

at fucking where??? Our Lady of Perpectual Torture? GITMO parish? WHERE?

[silverojo]

23. Oh, this is rich!

"Ten or 15 minutes of indiscretion has taken her life and turned it upside down."

I'm sure it had a little bigger impact than that on your kid, you psycho!

[sgxnk]

25. lol

talk about 'defining deviancy down'

10 or 15 minutes of INDISCRETION???

um, wearing white after labor day is an indiscretion

lopping off part of somebody's tongue is a barbaric crime

[koopie57]

24. what is the most troubling

to me is that this was not done instantaneously. She had time to cool down while the scissors heated and she held them to the little guy's neck. 10 or 15 minutes should have been more than enough time for her to at least get a grip.

This trend is so scary. Those who are believed to be religious are getting a free ride time after time. They are all loosing it. Is this a sickness like alcoholism? Damn. That thought just occurred to me. Oh crap. Well, just like alcoholism, people are still held responsible.

I think it is time for bed. My mind just went "boinks".

[theHandpuppet]

13. Hell, you can get 6 months in a Vegas jail for feeding the homeless

So who's looking out for the welfare of THIS CHILD?

[blonndee]

3. Sick. Ass. Bitch.

Stupid. Ass. Judge.

[MrSlayer]

4. Wow.

That's unbelievable. And the husband doesn't think she's a danger to the child? Sick.

[rubberducky]

5. NO.. JAIL...TIME

The sentences for crimes against children are no where near tough enough. how could anyone do something like this to a child?? This kind of stuff is so sick. But, I think , the courts are far too leniant on these people.

[Tsiyu]

6. If that father truly cared

he would see the need for this woman to be incarcerated.

His child's life may depend on it.

Sick

[azurnoir]

7. Got sick to my stomach

just reading it, so the poor kids dad got to call on her sentancing? He should be jailed too the next time she doesn't like what this child says or does.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. The father doesn't feel his son is unsafe around her.

Fine.

But how does the kid feel about it?

[beyurslf]

10. GIve me a hot pair of scissors and 15 mins alone with the parents please

[Malikshah]

17. I'll wrassle you for it. I won't do a bit of harm to them physically...

but psychologically....

Think the Marathon Man without the actual drilling.

[Sinti]

12. OMG! They need to take her child and get her therapy immediately.

Maybe they should cut off a piece of her tongue - here's your "culture of life" :banghead:

[nealmhughes]

14. A novel twist on "spare the heated scissors and spoil the child," eh?

And the dad defends her? If a man did that to a child, no right-minded woman would stay with him and the kids. How does she face her parents and her inlaws? Anyone in town?

[msongs]

15. tongue today, genitals tomorrow - the dad is an accomplice nt

[samsingh]

16. this kind of shit basically destroys the integrity of the

justice (i can't even call it that) system.

she should have gotten jail time for such a vicious act.

[u4ic]

18. Gender role reversal

He calls the cops, then

But the state's case was hampered when Toby Davis filed court papers refusing to cooperate with the prosecution and asking that charges be dropped. The boy also signed an affidavit saying he did not want his mother prosecuted...

Henry County prosecutors had recommended that Davis serve five years in prison. But the boy's father testified Tuesday that he did not want her to go to prison.

"He told the judge she is a good woman, and he doesn't feel his son is unsafe around her," Davis' lawyer, Rickey L. Richardson, said.

I've seen that when women are victims, defending their abusers, but never a man before. I wonder if he's scared of her, or suffered at her hands, too? (which does not excuse him) Most certainly a fucked up family.

Poor kid. It's fucking sick. :grr:

[elehhhhna]

22. "he doesn't feel his son is unsafe around her" says the FUCKHEAD.

fuck duck fuck fuck fuuuuuuck.

there.

[niyad]

26. the 5 year old signed an affidavit? WTF? he isn't even of what used to

be called "the age of reason" and we are supposed to understand that he doesn't want his mother prosecuted and take this into account?

[Jazz2006]

27. That is just too twisted for words.

WTF?