Baby forced to smoke cannabis

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Baby forced to smoke cannabis


The teenager used cannabis regularly
A teenager who forced a baby to smoke cannabis has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years custody.
Michael Carter, 19, put the pipe filled with the drug into the six-month-old girl's mouth at least three times during drug-smoking sessions, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

He also admitted dropping her on the floor, which resulted in a fractured skull and broken ribs.

Prosecutor Hywel Hughes told the court that Carter, of Graig-y-Rhacca, Caerphilly, was a regular user of cannabis.

"He admits putting the pipe holding cannabis into the baby's mouth," he told the court.

Grievous bodily harm

Mr Hughes explained that an x-ray revealed the fractures to the baby's head and ribs.

Carter later admitted to dropping the child on the floor, punching her, and throwing her into a cot.

He admitted two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and one of failing to obtain medical assistance for the child.

Hugh Wallace, defending, said Carter was "reckless" but did not intend to harm the baby.

Judge David Wynn Morgan sentenced Carter to four-and-a-half years in a young offender institution.

He told Carter: "These were not isolated incidents but a course of reckless behaviour which caused the gravest of injuries."

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Heard this story on the radio,"Hugh Wallace, defending, said Carter was "reckless" but did not intend to harm the baby."

RECKLESS???? This twat deliberatly drops her on the floor and deliberatly drugs her.....thats attempted murder in my book four and a half years? thats a fooking disgrace, try TWENTY YEARS.

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Heard this story on the radio,"Hugh Wallace, defending, said Carter was "reckless" but did not intend to harm the baby."

RECKLESS???? This twat deliberatly drops her on the floor and deliberatly drugs her.....thats attempted murder in my book four and a half years? thats a fooking disgrace, try TWENTY YEARS.

Just another example of the way our justice system works these days, people do 1/10th of how long the Krays did for crimes 20 times worse these days.

As for Hugh Wallace, id like to know how you justify defending someone like that to yourself.

[Gavin M]

****in scum shud never be allowed near kids again :grr:

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australian news


Toddlers fed with cannabis-laced pasta sauce

September 12, 2003 - 5:55PM



Two people faced court today, charged with feeding two young girls spaghetti with a sauce laced with marijuana. The girls, aged two and four, were taken to hospital after their parents returned to a friend's house to find their children drowsy and, in the case of the older child, almost comatose, a court was told today.

The man and the woman, who had been looking after the children, today appeared in Adelaide's Elizabeth Magistrates Court, each charged with two counts of supplying a prohibited substance.

Anthony John Patten, 22, and Karen Lee-Anne Anderson, 33, were granted bail at $1,200 each on condition they had no contact with any children under the age of 16, including Anderson's four children, aged between nine and 15.

Police prosecutor Harry Scherwitzel told the court the two children had visited Patten and Anderson's Elizabeth Park home yesterday morning with their parents.

The girls' father allegedly smoked a quantity of cannabis with Patten and Anderson before leaving with the girls' mother and another six-month old sibling.


Mr Scherwitzel said Patten told police he later served the girls lunch, giving them spaghetti with a pasta sauce containing cannabis.

Patten claimed he had simply forgotten what was in the sauce, the court was also told.

However Mr Scherwitzel said what had happened was "perhaps a parent's worse nightmare".

"(The parents returned) and found their two children drowsy, sleepy and in a very unhealthy state," he said.

"The four-year-old child ... who weighs about 12kg, was assessed as being in a state where she was near unconscious and almost in a life-threatening coma.

"In fact the doctor from child protection (services) said two small bites of the food would have been enough to put the four-year-old in the state she was in."

Mr Scherwitzel said the children had started to become more alert and active today and were expected to be released from the Women's and Children's Hospital within 24 hours.

Mark Kernick, for Patten, said his client was distressed by the incident.

"His intention was not to feed these children what they were fed, that was an accident," Mr Kernick said.

"This isn't a case of wilful child abuse, it was a case of forgetfulness of what it was (in the pasta sauce) that he was providing."

Anderson, who sobbed during the court hearing, allegedly told police soon after the incident the children were ill when they arrived at her home.

However Anderson's lawyer, Sally Burgess, said her client, who cared for a number of children in her neighbourhood, had cooperated with police.

The court heard Anderson did not currently have custody of her own children, but saw them during school holidays.

Patten and Anderson will reappear in court on October 22.