Dad walks after pleading guilty to assaulting 2-month-old daughter (Gatton, Australia)

Unfreaking believable....UNNAMED DAD.

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2012/03/16/dad-walks-free-on-baby-assault-charge/

Dad walks free on assault charge
Kate Lemmon Queensland Times | 16th March 2012 4:39 AM

A FATHER who smothered his two-month-old baby with a pillow until she turned blue at Gatton has walked free from court.

The 23-year-old man was sentenced to two years probation after pleading guilty to common assault.

The Ipswich Magistrates Court heard the man, then 21, was looking after the little girl at home in Gatton while her mother had gone grocery shopping.

The grandmother of the child was in another room when she heard the baby scream and went to see what was wrong.

Crown prosecutor Nici Schmitt said the grandmother saw the father clasping the baby close to his chest, before he threw the baby onto the bed.

He put a pillow over the body lengthwise and held his hands over the child's head and legs.

The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, applied pressure to the child for about five seconds before he realised he was being watched, and stopped.

The grandmother said when she went to pick up the baby, she had turned blue and was gasping for air.

The baby was examined at hospital, but she was not left with any permanent injuries.

Police traced the man later that day - October 25, 2010 - and he was charged with attempted murder, later downgraded to a count of common assault.

No conviction was recorded.