A Supreme Court in Australian on Thursday had sentenced a mother, who killed her three-year-old son “because he looked like his father,” to no less than 33 years in prison.
The woman and her partner, the boy’s stepfather, were found guilty of murdering the toddler after almost two months of abuse in August 2014.
Her partner was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
New South Wales Supreme Court Judge Peter Johnson said during the sentencing “This was a terrible crime of child murder,’’.
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The mother, 43, had lied that the boy, simply identified as Joseph, died after tripping over a rope tied to the family dogs.
In her report to the police, she said the boy “just pushed my buttons too many times” and “I had so many thoughts about killing Joey.”
“Don’t get me wrong I did love that boy, but there was a part of me that hated him because he looked like his father and that he’s his father’s child,’’ she said, according to records heard by the court.
Judge Johnson said that rather than nurturing her son, the mother punished him as if he was in some way responsible for the sins of his biological father.
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“This was a grotesque and cruel feature of her conduct towards her son.
“Joseph was extensively tortured in the weeks before he died.
The judge during the sentencing said in the court.
“His mother slammed his head in a cupboard and his eyes had been covered by duct tape,’’
The judge said Joseph was “exceedingly vulnerable” and the couple had worn him down “physically and psychologically” with the assaults.
Joseph’s uncle told newsmen After the sentencing, that the judge dished out the appropriate punishment.
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