Derry father blinds and brain damages his child by shaking him

Dionysus

This is heart-rendering. After a five-and-a-half week trial, from which the media was excluded, a 26-year-old County Derry man Robert John Anderson, has been found guilty of "baby-shaking" his child into blindness and brain damage for life. The very thought of it sent a wave of emotion over me. Horrible, horrible madness and destruction and cruelty. Why? Why the fúck you arsehole!

---

Father convicted after 'shaken' baby left brain-damaged

The case was heard in the Crown Court in Londonderry
A County Londonderry man has been convicted in the city's Crown Court of causing grievous bodily harm to his 18-week-old son by "baby-shaking".

It is believed to be one of the first convictions of its kind in a Northern Ireland court.

Robert John Anderson, 26, whose address cannot be made public and whose baby cannot named by order of the court, was found guilty by majority verdict.

Among other injuries, the baby is now permanently blind and brain-damaged.

Anderson's guilty verdict followed a five-and-a-half week trial held in the absence of the media.

He was also found guilty of cruelty to his baby son by neglect.

The media was allowed to be present for both verdicts.

As a result of injuries sustained in the incident, on 16 December, 2008, the baby can only respond to noise, is unable to speak and has multiple disability and mobility problems.

After the jurors returned the guilty verdicts, Anderson and members of his family - including his partner, who is the mother of the baby - wept.

He was refused bail and will be sentenced on 24 March.

BBC

---

Millicent

Fucking hell. What is wrong with people?

ballsymchugh

they're all a bit strange up in that londonderry place.

derry on the other hand is a grand place.

seriously though, licenses for those who want kids.

JONJO THE MISER

No doubt some track suit wearing piece of scum.

Daegerty

That isn't a very nice thing to do is it?

Poor child is probably better off dead

Millicent

Daegerty wrote: »

That isn't a very nice thing to do is it?

Poor child is probably better off dead

Steady on there. :eek:

pragmatic1

ballsymchugh wrote: »

they're all a bit strange up in that londonderry place.

derry on the other hand is a grand place.

seriously though, licenses for those who want kids.

There will have to come a time when we seriously examine the case of licenses for children.

opticalens

Whoa Daegarty..... give the poor child a chance... that's a bit much

jimmycrackcorm

Robert John Anderson

With that name he is clearly a prod. I blame the pope for not converting him.

/changes thread to catholic church bashing

whiteboy

this is something I could have done without knowing.

Dangerous Man

It's very difficult to know what to say or even think when confronted with this. One can only wish that these things didn't happen but too often they do; it's so difficult to understand how a person can do this to a baby. I hope the child has as good a life as he possibly can given his injuries...