man gets 25 years for microwaving his daughter

[Stelok]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080327/ap_on_re_us/baby_in_microwave_9



GALVESTON, Texas - A jury sentenced a young father Wednesday to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant daughter after putting her in a microwave and turning it on for up to 20 seconds.
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Joshua Mauldin was teary-eyed after hearing the sentence. His mother sobbed loudly in the courtroom.

The jury had convicted Mauldin on Tuesday of felony injury to a child, rejecting his claims that he was insane when he put his daughter Ana in the microwave last year.

Prosecutors had wanted him sentenced to the maximum of life in prison. Still, Galveston County prosecutor Xochitl Vandiver said she was satisfied with the sentence.

"It's extremely important for people to know that just because this case was sensational, it doesn't mean that (child abuse) goes away," she said. "Child abuse is an important issue. It should be focused on."

Sam Cammack III, Mauldin's attorney, had asked jurors to consider his client's long history of mental illness and sentence him to probation so he could be treated at a hospital.

"He still doesn't get the treatment for mental illness that he needs," Cammack said. "He's not going to get that in prison."

Jurors deliberated for 6 1/2 hours over two days before sentencing Mauldin. They also fined him $10,000.

Prosecutors said Mauldin hurt his daughter because he was angry that he was in a loveless marriage. They also said Mauldin had a history of violence and of lying about being mentally ill to get out of trouble.

Mauldin claimed he started hallucinating when he was left alone in a Galveston hotel room with his daughter, feeling like mud was running up his body and consuming him.

Just before putting her in the room's microwave, he punched the then 2-month-old child and placed her in the room's safe and refrigerator.

Mauldin at first told police his daughter had been severely sunburned, later changing his story and saying he had accidentally spilled hot water on her while making coffee.

Ana suffered second- and third-degree burns to her left ear, cheek, hand and shoulder and required two skin grafts. Part of her left ear had to be amputated.

After the sentence was handed down, Joanie Mauldin insisted her son was insane and blamed herself for not getting her son help and for Ana's injuries.

"I pray he gets help. But I don't see it happening in a penitentiary," she said, insisting her son loved his daughter. "Nobody in their right mind would cook a child."

Ana, now 1, suffered second- and third-degree burns to her left ear, cheek, hand and shoulder and has required several skin grafts. Part of her left ear had to be amputated.

Before Joshua Mauldin was taken away, Ana's foster mother, Heather Croxton, told him during an emotional victim impact statement about the pain he's caused his daughter.

"There is no excuse for your actions and I hate that one day you will be set free and allowed to move on with your life while Ana continues to pay for your actions," Croxton told Mauldin, who will be eligible for parole after he serves half his sentence.

"I hope that somehow you pay for what you have done to this innocent, beautiful baby girl," she said.

Croxton, whose husband is a step-cousin to the girl's mother, Eva Mauldin, said she hopes to adopt Ana.

A trial to terminate the Mauldins' parental rights is scheduled for April. Eva Mauldin refused defense attorneys' requests to testify and lives in Arkansas..

[Hisoka]

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[Stelok]

I think that guy should be microwaved.
The punishment must fit the crime.

[Shiroiyuki]

The jury had convicted Mauldin on Tuesday of felony injury to a child, rejecting his claims that he was insane when he put his daughter Ana in the microwave last year.
Sam Cammack III, Mauldin's attorney, had asked jurors to consider his client's long history of mental illness and sentence him to probation so he could be treated at a hospital.

Um...if he had a long history of mental illness and KNEW about it (trying to use it in his defense), he should never have become a father. So unstable that he would eventually microwave an innocent baby? Yeah, that's good parental material right there. He should be up on that stand for more than just child abuse.

Joshua Mauldin was teary-eyed after hearing the sentence. His mother sobbed loudly in the courtroom.

That guy should be teary-eyed not for his punishment, but for the fact that he hurt his own daughter. What a ****** **** ***** ******!! And why the hell is his mother all worked up about his sentencing? She should be worried more about her granddaughter, the poor victim in all this madness. The whole family should be examined for mental deficiency.

It's stories like this that make me hate the world.

[seba_boi]

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Indeed.......

[Bernard_Monsha]

I think that guy should be microwaved.
The punishment must fit the crime.

If that were the case he would be carefully impaled (you don't want him to die) on a microwave transmitter then being picked apart by buzzards and ants

[tenshi_a]

Just before putting her in the room's microwave, he punched the then 2-month-old child and placed her in the room's safe and refrigerator.

Mauldin at first told police his daughter had been severely sunburned, later changing his story and saying he had accidentally spilled hot water on her while making coffee.

It just gets worse as you read on! This is the most appalling thing! :x

I'm surprised it's only 25 years!!

Um...if he had a long history of mental illness and KNEW about it (trying to use it in his defense), he should never have become a father. So unstable that he would eventually microwave an innocent baby? Yeah, that's good parental material right there. He should be up on that stand for more than just child abuse.

Are there legal restrictions on people with mental illnesses having sex and getting married, in America?

[Leader Desslock]

I'm surprised it's only 25 years!!
Given that it's Texas, I'm surprised the guy wasn't given a summary trial and a prompt execution via firing squad by his neighbors.

They must not have caught him before the police, is all.

Are there legal restrictions on people with mental illnesses having sex and getting married, in America?
No, but I've often thought that procreation should be subject to some sort of licensure. Having a child and raising it badly has a much larger societal effect than merely driving a car, hunting, fishing or lots of other things which require a license.

Of course the problem with licensing procreation is that there's no objective, medical test to determine who the Stoopid people are.

[Shiroiyuki]

Are there legal restrictions on people with mental illnesses having sex and getting married, in America?

Unfortunately no, but a person ought to be responsible enough to know they aren't parent material. I'm guessing this man must have proved his instability in order to have a 'long history of mental illness and/or violence' under his belt.

He knew he had a problem -- he must have -- considering he tried to use it as his defense in court. Doesn’t even look like he’s shown remorse, lying about what he did, tearing up only after sentencing. He should have never become a parent (or shall I say 'sperm donor' considering no parent would ever do that to their child) knowing his history.


Tch.

Hopefully he'll be brutalized so badly in prison, being microwaved would seem a blessing. Only then would there be justice.

[superplough]

Oh my god. Ok this tops my list of Worst Things A Human Can Do. I agree with Stelok, and with Desslock that breeding should require a license.

[Hara!]

I think that guy should be microwaved.
The punishment must fit the crime.

I just had to post this.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/college-students-hate.php?page=2

Entitled White Male

Steadily becoming a dime a dozen in the fast-paced world of college, the Entitled White Male wonders why the Earth kept on turning after leaving him and his kind behind. Raised on a steady diet of Penn and Teller's ********! and South Park, Entitled White Male doesn't care about issues unless they're being delivered by either two Libertarian magicians or two Libertarian college dropouts who hide their shocking ignorance behind cartoon characters. Entitled White Male finds it completely preposterous that this nonsensical world can't be tailor-made to address the needs of the non-disabled white male who is afforded every luxury our society has to offer from birth. And why shouldn't it? This is what the Entitled White Male thinks and stews about whenever he sees a handicapped parking spot or a United Negro College Fund, and can only listen to some quality Henry Rollins monologues to stoke that burning White rage.

If anything, Entitled White Male is famous for making statements that he thinks are original or outrageous, while the rest of us have heard dumb****s uttering this nonsense since the beginning of time. Observe the following:

"Why should I vote? Same ****, different *******, man."

"Black History Month? Seems to me like they're the ones being racist."

Another concern of the Entitled White Male is that White Justice be doled out to anyone not matching the Entitled White Mindset; though, obviously, the weak suburban bodies of the Entitled White Male are not fit for this task. I now present an actual (dramatized) conversation between an EWM and one of my old professors on this very subject.

"Prison isn't a deterrent anymore. What we need to do is make the punishment fit the crime. You punch someone in the face, someone punches you in the face. You rape a woman, some dude named Bubba [note the racism here] gives it right back to you."

"Are you telling me that the state should hire trained rapists to rape criminals in prison?"

"I'm just sayin'."

Until the Entitled White Male is not represented by a Presidential candidate that looks and act like he spends all day in a tree making E.L. Fudges, this group will thankfully remain oppressed.

This article deserves it's own thread.

[tenshi_a]

^ there's a series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/white/) on BBC TV at the moment all about white people who feel "underrepresented" in Britain. As though it wasn't like most politicians representing them are white people. I find the idea of the series distasteful in stirring race hatred. Funny thing in England is that a lot of the time white people hate immigrant whites more than any other colour, jealous of the Polish immigrant workers making money on jobs they refused to take for being too crappy.

Making the punishment fit the crime is a strange idea really. Reminds me more of an episode of Red Dwarf...

Unfortunately no, but a person ought to be responsible enough to know they aren't parent material.

He's a 19 year old with a 2 month old daughter... do you think that he's likely to have become a father due to thinking "well, it's about time in my life I became a responsible parent. In that case, I guess I ought to go and have sex with someone"...? Another article I read on this said his age and that his wife and mother had gone out for food and left him with the girl. So I guess they thought that the right thing to do was to get married? That it might help sort him out?

[Shiroiyuki]

He's a 19 year old with a 2 month old daughter... do you think that he's likely to have become a father due to thinking "well, it's about time in my life I became a responsible parent. In that case, I guess I ought to go and have sex with someone"...? Another article I read on this said his age and that his wife and mother had gone out for food and left him with the girl. So I guess they thought that the right thing to do was to get married? That it might help sort him out?

Normally I would agree with you there -- but even if he wasn't planning on procreating, he is of legal age and responsible for his actions (legally). While a lot of people I know do settle down at young ages, I know it isn't unheard of to get knocked up and forced into marriage...

However, he still should have been responsible. Don't think you have what it takes to raise a child you may or may not have planned? Give the kid a chance and opt for adoption -- it's better than what he did, I'll tell ya.

It was an obvious fact even to his mother that the man was mentally unfit.

[tenshi_a]

Maybe his wife and his mother thought that he'd never do anything so terrible to his own daughter, so they didn't think leaving the child with him would be so terrible. It's just really really bad judgement on their part. There's a whole family there and they probably wouldn't want to put their baby up for adoption when they feel they can take care of her despite the flakiness of her father.

You think the baby should have been removed from the family by social services at birth?

[Shiroiyuki]

You think the baby should have been removed from the family by social services at birth?

No, since I hate Family Services (long story, very ugly). Besides, they would probably not have known about his history unless a family member came forth and complained.

That said, given his history of violence, lying, mental deficiency....the family should have known he would not be a suitable parent. He should have been responsible and either 1.) given the child up for adoption, or 2.) left the child in the care of another family member, making sure never to be alone with the child.

Even if he wasn't mature enough to know better, his mother should have been responsible. Isn't that neglect or something?Jesus, I'm not even making sense. Remind me not to respond to threads while tired...

Oh well, I think its a moot point now anyways. Poor kid, it's a shame nothing was done sooner.

[Ikari Warrior]

Of course the problem with licensing procreation is that there's no objective, medical test to determine who the Stoopid people are.

My guess would be all the idiots who fail enough to not get a reproduction license. This discussion could turn into something more controversial, so I'll just leave it at that.

[Caster13]

Instead of microwaving him, I think you should stick him in a rotisary oven.

"Just set it, and...forget it!":lol:

[Trefellin]

Yes it's terrible but I would disagree that Mr. Mauldin should be gruesomely and painfully killed. Would you want to be as barbaric as the man who saw his child as being no more than a hot pocket? I think a regular death penalty would be sufficient but he would be better off at an insane asylum were he probably belongs. Now, if he survives prison, he'll leave as a crazier old man.


I'll point this out before AnimeMatt shows up and says his bit.

In 2000, a Virginia woman was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month-old son in a microwave oven.

Would all you lynch mobbers agree that she should be tortured to death as well? This shows once again that the legal system is heavily biased against men.

Maybe they should put a "not for use on your spawn" label on all appliances.



Oh ya, good one Kenpachi. :)

[emotoaster]

She should have gotten 25 years minimum. Both of them are ****ed up, and need to some help...badly.

[DavenIII]

She should have gotten 25 years minimum. Both of them are ****ed up, and need to some help...badly.

you know you're name is perfect for alot of jokes for the top two threads on these boards right now.

we got people running around beating up Emo's in Mexico, and in this thread we got children being microwaved.

if you combine them and look at your name, we could jump to the conclusion that you would like to cook an Emo in you're Toaster :)

[taily]

I think that guy should be microwaved.
The punishment must fit the crime.

but for 1 minute, instead of 20 seconds. he's bigger, and older. no, make that 2 minutes because he's already lived along time, wereas that girl will be stuck with scars for life, so he derserves it.

[tenshi_a]

In 2000, a Virginia woman was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month-old son in a microwave oven.

What? That really happened? I thought it was just a....

(looks it up)

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/babysitter.asp

Wow, it really did. Does that means she's free now? She still alive and not killed by vigilantes? And there's another case too, but it doesn't say anything about sentencing?

This is all horrible!

[Mikosage]

I reiterate yet again: THIS IS WHY IDIOTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO REPRODUCE!!!!!

Gah, I hate people! What a sick ****! I have half a mind to fly down to texas, baste him in honey, and throw him in the jackal cage at the local zoo!

[emotoaster]

Shadow I just got the irony.....wow I'm dense lmao!

[KatayokuのTenshi]

:x

rejecting his claims that he was insane when he put his daughter Ana in the microwave last year.

Well he'd pretty much have to be...

"He still doesn't get the treatment for mental illness that he needs," Cammack said. "He's not going to get that in prison."

Doesn't that worry anyone?

I think that guy should be microwaved.
The punishment must fit the crime.

That doesn't mean they must be identical it means they must be proportionate.

Um...if he had a long history of mental illness and KNEW about it (trying to use it in his defense), he should never have become a father.

He probably didn't plan it...

This shows once again that the legal system is heavily biased against men.

I've noticed that, especially relating to murder and especially when the perpetrator recently gave birth, most justice systems seem to be more lenient towards women.

[fujyoshi]

wow I don't know why but when I first saw this I started cracking up O_o not because some little girl got killed but because wow a guy was mad dumb enough to do something like that. Craps messed up -_-

[Caster13]

I believe this applies.

http://theproblemwithwomentoday-reality2008.blogspot.com

Thanks Matt, for giving me this.

[fujyoshi]

I believe this applies.

http://theproblemwithwomentoday-reality2008.blogspot.com

Thanks Matt, for giving me this.

wow luckily I'm not a feminist then @_@

[TougeSil80]

25 years is going easy on him, people like this deserve life without parole.

[goddessofanime]

Poor kid.

Another example of why idiots can breed like rabbits while good normal people can't.

[Caster13]

wow luckily I'm not a feminist then @_@

The feminazi logo was pure win.:lol:

It's so freaking sexist, but hilarious.

[animeotaku99]

OK there are two cases I can think of were women put their children in microwaves and they got off on 'insanity' why can't this guy?

[KatayokuのTenshi]

OK there are two cases I can think of were women put their children in microwaves and they got off on 'insanity' why can't this guy?

Because postpartum depression/postnatal psychosis is a defence to murder?

[Caster13]

Because postpartum depression/postnatal psychosis is a defence to murder?

Oh please, ANY type of mental diagnosis is used as an excuse today, and no matter how ridiculous it is, people buy into it.

[animeotaku99]

Don't forget PMS, It HAS been used as a defense for murder adn worked

[Trefellin]

How is postpartum depression/postnatal psychosis different from any other mental illness? This guy is not sane in any way, he just couldn't be. If they think he is mentally fit, I am just torturing myself by continuing to believe in logic and reason.

People usually don't stay in prison for their whole sentence, right? In a decade and a half, he could be walking the streets and stabbing people with syringes because he thinks they're trying to get him.

[Caster13]

I second the idea that the insane should not be allowed to procreate. The genes should stop at a certain point.

[goddessofanime]

Too bad it hasn't reached Britney Spears yet.

[KatayokuのTenshi]

How is postpartum depression/postnatal psychosis different from any other mental illness?

...because only women get it? :unsure: (should note that they are two are different things but have both been used as a defence.)

And it's temporary, so they can use it as a defence without worrying about spending the rest of their life in a mental hospital.

[Spadesy]

That's one of the ugliest crimes I've heard of. That guy deserves much more than 25 years.

[CrossboneGundam]

I believe this applies.

http://theproblemwithwomentoday-reality2008.blogspot.com

Thanks Matt, for giving me this.

What, exactly, does your and animematt's being misogynists have to do with the subject at hand?

[Caster13]

The subject of women getting away with stuff because the courts are lenient with women, and some parts of that applied.

I'm not sexist, I just find some of it pretty damn funny.

[Soluzar]

The subject of women getting away with stuff because the courts are lenient with women, and some parts of that applied..
That's not the subject at hand though. Nothing to do with it.

That's one of the ugliest crimes I've heard of. That guy deserves much more than 25 years.
Really he deserves to never get out of jail again. There's not many times I'd say that, but this was his own daughter.

[Stelok]

http://wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=8072369&nav=menu239_2

AP Exclusive: Parents didn't expect daughter to die during prayer

Associated Press - March 26, 2008 7:15 PM ET

WESTON, Wis. (AP) - The mother of an 11-year-old rural Weston girl who died of untreated diabetes says she didn't know her daughter was terminally ill as she prayed for her to get better instead of taking her to the doctor.

Madeline Neumann died Sunday from an undiagnosed and treatable form of diabetes.

Her mother, Leilani Neumann, tells The Associated Press her daughter's condition worsened suddenly, and the parents stayed in prayer, believing she would recover.

She also says she's not concerned about a police investigation, because she and her husband believe their lives are in God's hands and they did nothing criminal, only tried to do the best they could for their daughter.

Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin says an autopsy showed the girl died from a type of diabetes that left her with too little insulin in her body. He says she had probably been ill for about 30 days.

But Leilani Neumann says her daughter was in good health until recently. The girl attended public school last fall but has been home-schooled this semester.

The chief says he expects the investigation to wrap up by Friday and the findings to be forwarded to the district attorney to review for possible charges.

I have found another case of child abuse which convinces me there is a need for license to procreate/reproduce.

There are really many kinds of idiotic parents in this world. I guess the posters are right in suggesting that idiots be banned from reproducing.

.
I thought God helps people who help themselves.

[Caster13]

Actually, if stupid people were banned from reproducing, then this country would have barely anyone in the next generation.

[Trefellin]

You need stupid people for menial labour. The world cannot function without epsilon semi-morons.

[Shiroiyuki]

You need stupid people for menial labour. The world cannot function without epsilon semi-morons.

Then do what bees do and make them simple drones incapable of reproduction.

[Trefellin]

Then do what bees do and make them simple drones incapable of reproduction.

That is a grand idea but you run into problems when you get to the human rights bits. Social engineering is difficult work!

[Shiroiyuki]

That is a grand idea but you run into problems when you get to the human rights bits. Social engineering is difficult work!

Luckily, that's where Area 51 fits in.;)


And no, I won't thread-hijack any longer.


To get back to the conversation, has anyone heard if this whack-job will be up for parole in years to come? Or is his sentencing to be served without such benefits?

The article did not mention such things *shrugs*. Kinda horrible to think that this man will get out at all, let alone early.

[Midoriko87]

Madness. What else is there to say? ...except...

To those of you who figure intelligent persons are just that much better at parenting, they're not That also goes for maintaining a marriage. (Some psychologists figure this can be attributed to a lack of that "special" brand of social intelligence (you know, emotional intelligence).)

As a person who's spent too much time around kids, I'm not really surprised...

[Hara!]

This thread is stupid now.

[Kagura]

All I gotta say is that sick Son of a B**ch needs to be punished SEVERELY for this crime. Jail time is DEFINITELY NOT enough. He needs to go see Loreana Bobbit and get himself a neutering and then he needs to be bruned really bad too so he can see what his poor little daughter felt. He shouldn't have treated her so badly. Now she is going to no doubt be scarred for life. And when she is older, this could very well affect her emotionally as I am a survivor from severe child abuse and I know it affects me to this very day as I have various health issues resulting from the abuse, as well as a lot of physical and emotional pain. :( Why parents do this kind of stuff to children is confusing to me and if they didn't want any children, haven't he or she whichever didn't want the child ever hear of Condoms??

[Spadesy]

Madness. What else is there to say? ...except...

To those of you who figure intelligent persons are just that much better at parenting, they're not That also goes for maintaining a marriage. (Some psychologists figure this can be attributed to a lack of that "special" brand of social intelligence (you know, emotional intelligence).)

As a person who's spent too much time around kids, I'm not really surprised...

You have a point there. Being snide and corrective to come off as an intellectual is funny at times, but when people take it too seriously they get lost in their own little world and separate themselves from intuition.

[goddessofanime]

Must resist microwave baby joke....

[Trefellin]

^You got me thinking and now I can't resist...

How do you get your infant out of the microwave?

Nachos!


Oh, I feel bad and good at the same time! >_<

[goddessofanime]

Roasted baby anyone?











*is going to hell

[Trefellin]

^Make sure to look me up when you get there. We could hang out. ^_^

[Mikosage]

^Make sure to look me up when you get there. We could hang out. ^_^

I'll totally bring the cake! Or...will I...? :unsure:

[goddessofanime]

I want my babyback babyback babyback ribs...

[Caster13]

I want my babyback babyback babyback ribs...

You're right, you ARE going to hell.

[Trefellin]

I want my babyback babyback babyback ribs...

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee223/Trefellin/icon_204.gif Geez, that horrific!



See, even the most terrible things in the world can be funny when you're desensitized enough. Makes me think of Carlin's Elmer Fudd raping Porky Pig joke.

I must be really messed up. For the love of God, somebody lock this thread. I can't stop!

[superplough]

Seconded idea of locking thread. Baby jokes are never good.

*must resist urge to post several*

[Nakey]

I want my babyback babyback babyback ribs...

But ribs suck when microwaved. Spit-roasted baby, now that's what i like

I like babies. i just don't think i can eat a whole one

[goddessofanime]

Oh, and just for the record, the father deserves to go to jail and get raped in the shower by a nice man named Bubba.


That being said, I like spit-roasted baby with garlic.









*will stop now.

[Nakey]

can i share one with you?

[goddessofanime]

Of course!

[Caster13]

Goddess, if you see any hole in the ground of ANY depth, avoid it. It might open up.