Mom gets only 8 years for shaking her baby!!!

Mom gets 8 years for shaken baby | Cincinnati Enquirer | Cincinnati.Com

Halloran Carr will spend the next eight years in prison because of the life sentence she imposed on her 3-month-old daughter in a 2007 shaken-baby incident.

Carr, 25, of Colerain Township, was convicted by a jury last month of child endangering after violently shaking Destiny Concepcion, her 3-month-old daughter, in a November 2007 incident that left the child blind and developmentally stunted with little hope of having any quality of life.

Carr begged for forgiveness, saying she was as much a victim as her daughter. “I’ve lost everything. I’ve lost my kids. I’ve lost my family,” she said.

She then lost her freedom when a stern Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge William Mallory noted she lost nothing compared to what the child lost.

“I cry for Destiny,” Mallory told Carr in an emotional hearing Thursday. “She does not have a chance at life. … I will spend the rest of my life thinking about her and crying for her.” Mallory imposed the maximum prison sentence of eight years after Carr refused to accept responsibility for the child’s injury, claiming the baby’s father shook the child and Carr’s horrible childhood left her unprepared to be a good mother, especially to a premature baby like Destiny. Carr was frustrated by the child’s crying during the incident and shook her so violently that the child’s skull was fractured. She then waited 10 hours to get the child medical care while lying to police, telling them the child was injured as Carr held her and fell. The girl now is 17 months old but has the development of a 3-month-old infant. She has cerebral palsy, is blind, can’t eat solid food, move her neck or sit up. She never will be able to walk or talk and needs splints to keep her limbs straight to prevent her body from curling into a permanent ball shape. The child has four to six doctor appointments per month with several doctors in several specialties. Those will be required for life. She still could die from her injuries. “She has no quality of life, judge,” Assistant Prosecutor Jocelyn Chess told Mallory. “She will never be normal.” Carr’s mother – Destiny’s grandmother – wept during the hearing and asked the judge to have mercy on her daughter, ending her comments by telling Mallory she even voted for him. “You voted for me to do my job and I’m going to do it,” the judge replied. Carr had two other children. One is in foster care; the other died. The same jury could not reach a verdict on a felonious assault charge against Carr in the case.