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Father jailed for life for snapping baby's Spine!

Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:17 PM by Let Uz Chat

Daily Express

A father who murdered his baby daughter by snapping her spine in half was jailed for at least 22 years yesterday.

Jobless James Howson, 25, twisted the arms and legs of his 16-month-old daughter Amy before breaking her spine by slamming her over either his knee or the back of a chair.

Howson carried out his evil act 11 years after he was excluded from school for violence.

A psychiatric report chillingly warned: “The teacher feels this boy will commit a murder. She has never seen such a disturbed young man.”

Chronically undernourished, Amy endured months of abuse at the hands of Howson and suffered more than 40 injuries without her mother Tina Hunt, 26, intervening.

Hunt, who was in the house when Amy was murdered, walked free from court with a suspended 12-month jail sentence after admitting cruelty.

Jailing Howson for life with a minimum term of 22 years, Judge Mrs Justice Cox said: “You deliberately inflicted horrific injuries on your defenceless daughter from which she died within hours."

“This was a chilling and brutal act. The force you used upon her must have been considerable.”

The judge let Hunt escape with a suspended sentence because she was of low intellect and unable to tell anyone about Amy’s plight out of fear of her dominating partner.

But that provoked anger from Detective Superintendent Carl Sturgess, who said: “It has been a most wicked and evil murder of an innocent child.

“The catalogue of horrific injuries were some of the worst I have seen in 30 years of policing.

“The two very people who should have been providing love and protection to this child brought her nothing but misery.”

He added: “We were led to believe that Tina Hunt is of low intelligence and was scared of James Howson. But I would ask what reasonable person would sit back for eight weeks of this child’s life and let her suffer in this manner?”

Amy’s grandfather Colin Hunt, 48, said: “Howson should have got longer. He killed a 16-month-old baby and should not be let out of jail at all.

“I honestly thought Tina might have been jailed for up to six years. It’s a bonus she’s not been locked up. She’s been through a lot herself, bless her.

“She was so controlled by Howson she couldn’t even tell me what was happening to Amy. If she had, Amy would be alive today.”

During Howson’s two-week trial at Leeds Crown Court he tried to blame Amy’s death on his partner, who at the time was pregnant with their second child.

The jury was told the couple, from Edlington, Doncaster, hardly spoke after falling out a few months before Amy’s death because Howson did not want another child.

In the last two months before Amy was found dead at home on December 23 last year, Howson repeatedly punched, slapped and squeezed her, causing seven fractures, before breaking her back.

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The kind that don't deserve to have kids. Guy got life (which should mean life) but he's eligible for parole after serving 22 years; which is something he doesn't deserve after his antics.

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	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:18 PM by lifeless

	mannn!!!
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:21 PM by kali billi

	baby killers get a royal treatment from bubba and co at the jail.
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:21 PM by X2

	Very disturbing.
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:24 PM by Munni

	sods, both of them. i fail to believe she saw her flesh being abused and she sat there and took it. UGH!!!!
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:31 PM by XChorniX

	Extremly disturbing.
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:42 PM by Sajalina

	the woman should roast too, how can any woman let this happen to her child... sick. similar story going on here, the stepfather got off on manslaughter and will be paroled ina fwe years, the moms trial is still going on
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 09:58 PM by Sara516

	sickening!
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 10:50 PM by Skittlez

	Terribly disturbing.
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 10:52 PM by Lois Lane

	Very Sickening
	Posted Oct 24th, 2008 at 11:31 PM by hsap

	8-\|
	Posted Oct 26th, 2008 at 03:05 AM by K337