Canadian justice
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:22 am
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le1907148/
It is a curious country, this one, that you can be convicted of killing your child and still you get to walk out of the courtroom, free as a bird, la-dee-dah.
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Melissa Alexander was convicted of manslaughter in the scalding death of her 19-month-old son, Miguel, who died of massive third-degree immersion burns that his mommy dearest slathered with Vaseline and cotton batting, at some point tossing some of the little boy’s sloughed-off skin into the garbage can, before she left him and his nearly three-year-old brother, Shawn, in their apartment to go shopping.
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when Ms. Alexander left to hit the mall, probably around 1 p.m. that day, it’s possible Miguel “was still screaming in agony”