Baby Murders
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2009A 25-year-old Bristol man has appeared at Bristol Crown Court accused of murdering a four-month-old baby.
North Avon Magistrates’ Court heard the child was taken to hospital on July 28, but later died on July 31.
B.C. mom gets life sentence for stabbing baby to death
A 23-year-old mother who was found guilty of second-degree murder after stabbing her baby daughter to death was handed a life sentence with no parole for 10 years.
In June, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Charlie Rae Lincoln guilty in the July 2006 slaying of two-year-old Hope Lincoln in the remote B.C. coastal town of Bella Bella.
The jury heard that the woman flew into an alcohol-infused jealous rage after suspecting the toddler’s father Philip Blaney was having an affair with another woman.
As she was leaving a party, one prosecution witness said Lincoln yelled at Blaney: “The only way you’re going to see my baby is if you’re dead or she’s dead.”
Lincoln returned to the residence where she was staying and plunged a sharp knife deep into her daughter’s body at least 10 times.
The court heard psychiatric evidence that Lincoln suffered from borderline personality disorder with an inability to contain one’s emotions and not act impulsively.
The aboriginal mom also had a history of alcohol abuse and one expert found she suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome.
While noting that the attack was “particularly gruesome,” the judge said she was acting in a “frenzy” rather than a calculated way.
“I accept that she loved her daughter deeply and has great remorse upon realizing what she has done, but her anger and emotional state got the better of her,” he said.
The judge noted that Lincoln needs a lot of psychological and alcohol counselling to have any chance of rehabilitation.
“A 10-year ineligibility period does not entitle the accused to parole after 10 years. It only entitles her to apply for parole, but I believe she should be given that opportunity at that point in her sentence.”
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