I will not say what I am thinking, because what I am thinking should be done to the mother isn't nice at all.

I hope she gets 10 years, and she's lucky the father didn't do more than just take his son to the hospital.

WTF!

What the hell is wrong with people...

It happens in the animal world but for different reasons... ie: male squirrels will neuter their male offspring or other males when the population gets too high.

There are some things I can understand without condoning them.  I can understand how a parent can get mad and yell at their child when they shouldn't.  I have done it myself on a few occasions.  I was abused as a child and I swore I would never hit my children unless I felt it was necessary to prevent them from getting seriously injured or killed and so far I haven't hit either of them.  But  I have been sorely tempted a time or two so, without condoning the violence, I can understand a parent hitting a child.  We have too much knowledge these days to understand it but before there was such a thing as "shaken baby syndrome" I can understand a parent becoming frustrated with an infant and shaking it.  (To appreciate this, you need to have a colicky (sp?) child keep you up an entire night when you have an important presentation to make at work the next day.  Better yet, you need the child to do it 3 or 4 days in a row so that you're getting less than 3 hours of sleep a night.  Been there, done that).

I suppose I can understand a parent reaching out and grabbing a child and accidentally grabbing the wrong thing.  I think we have all seen a parent grab and jerk a child.  I don't condone it but I understand it.

What I can't understand is not seeking medical treatment for the child.  Being an adult means accepting responsibility for your own fuck ups.  Maybe it's just the 30 years of military in me but when you fuck up, you need to admit it, accept responsibility for it, deal with the consequences, and go on.  Her initial actions, while not appropriate, might at least be understandable.  Her actions afterward are completely inexcusable.

My son had colic for a month straight, every night from 11 p.m to 2-3 a.m and I never once felt the need to shake him or do any harm to him. I just sat on the couch, held him while patting his lower back or butt and sometimes even cried myself as I felt so helpless not being able to make him feel better. There are times at work that I have a short-fuse and yell at him out of frustration, but never have I thought or considered hitting him or touching him aggressively. Smacking his butt when he's trying to grab his poopy diaper, yes and it is just one smack and he stops (I've had to do it twice in the last 2 months). I understand having thoughts, sometimes even very awful thoughts in one's head out of frustration but I cannot comprehend acting them out.

I will not say what I am thinking, because what I am thinking should be done to the mother isn't nice at all.

Leave the mother to me.........I will take care of her...........