[Vision2020] What's a child worth?

[Saundra Lund]

I don't understand . . . am I missing something?

 

Is it truly possible that if one is "remorseful" enough, 3 years fixed/3
years indeterminate is a sufficient sentence for killing by shaking & then
hitting a 6-month-old helpless infant in the head?!?!

 

Not in any world where children are valued.  But, hey . . . this is Idaho  L

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Art Deco
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:54 AM
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Subject: [Vision2020] What's a child worth?

 


Gooding man sentenced in infant's death


 




By Jay Michaels


Story Published: Aug 10, 2010 at 11:51 PM CDT 

Story Updated: Aug 10, 2010 at 11:51 PM CDT 

Twin Falls, Idaho (KMVT) - A Gooding man was sentenced Tuesday for his role
in the death of a six month old boy earlier this year.

In late January Jason Blunt, 25, was arrested and charged with involuntary
manslaughter in the death of six month old James Osborne.

At the time Blunt was caring for the infant while Samantha Savage, the boy's
mother and Blunt's girlfriend, was at work.

Blunt pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter in late april.

A Gooding police report said that the child may have been shaken while Blunt
was caring for him; doctors said James Osborne died of a brain hemorrhage.

Tuesday, 5th District Judge John Butler said the autopsy report said the
baby's cause of death was blunt force trauma, not shaking.

Butler said while Blunt appeared to be truly remorseful for the child's
death, Butler could not ignore the pain Blunt had caused the family.

The judge ordered Blunt to pay $1,000 restitution for funeral expenses, in
addition to the jail time he'll serve of 3 years fixed and 3 indeterminate.

 

 

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