Custodial dad gets one year in jail for assaulting 5-month-old daughter; authorities left her in convicted Dad's care (Prince Edward Island, Canada)

We are told again and again how discriminated against poor daddies are. Waaah!

The exact opposite is true. Take this case as Exhibit A.

This custodial UNNAMED DAD has been convicted of assaulting his 5-month-old daughter. But notice how everybody makes excuses and coddles this poor little dear, while CONTINUING to endanger this baby by leaving her in her abusive father's care until sentencing! Poor Daddy, who smacked this infant and fractured her ribs, was just "inexperienced" and "immature," don't you know. That poor little sweetheart was just so "overtired" and "frustrated!" (Oh my gawd, if I only had a dollar for everytime somebody excused an abusive daddy's behavior on his "frustration." Puke...) So this little sh**, er, Poor Inexperienced Father, gets classes and the like. And one year of prison, though it really breaks our heart.

Whose interests are clearly a priority here: the baby's right to safety? Or Daddy's rights to control? And what about Mom? Who knows. We're smugly informed that "the mother is not in the baby's life," but with no explanation as to why. Are you going to tell me that Mom is worse than this piece of sh**? What happened to her "rights"? Appparently she doesn't have any, since the authorities preferred to leave this baby in the care of an abuser rather than take a look at the mother again. And believe me, if a mom had pulled this stunt, she would have been roundly crucified as an unfeeling monster. Nobody would have given a crap about how "frustrated" she may have been. The baby would have gone into Daddy's custody with no questions asked.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/03/01/pei-baby-assault-custody-584.html

Baby assault brings year in jail
CBC News Posted: Mar 1, 2011 2:31 PM AT Last Updated: Mar 1, 2011 2:31 PM AT

A 21-year-old P.E.I. man was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail for assaulting his five-month-old son.

The sentencing had been delayed for months, because there was no one but the father to care for the baby. The mother is not in the baby's life, and the father's mother had health problems. So for the past seven months the baby has been back in the care of the man who assaulted him.

The father pleaded guilty last year. In September, Supreme Court Justice Wayne Cheverie agreed to delay sentencing to give the child's grandmother a chance to recover to the point where she could care for him.

With the child's grandmother now available to take charge of him, sentencing went ahead Tuesday.

Immature and inexperienced

The man testified that the night of the assault in Jan. 2009 he was overtired and frustrated, and when the baby would not take his bottle, he struck him with it twice on the cheek. When the baby kept crying he picked him up and squeezed him, fracturing three of his ribs.

In sentencing, Justice Wayne Cheverie cited three factors in the man's favour: he had pleaded guilty, the baby sustained no lasting injuries, and the father was immature and inexperienced.

The father has also taken courses and counselling.

His lawyer, Brenda Pickard, argued for less jail time.

"[He] takes full responsibility for what he did and he knows what he did was wrong, and so he was aware of the likely consequences today," said Pickard.

"He is concerned about the effect that his being away from his son now, after the last seven months or so, having primary care of him, is going to have on the child. But he recognizes that there are consequences to his actions."

Justice Cheverie said he had to sentence the man to jail, because despite reasons and excuses, an innocent child was injured, and that is a crime.