Dad strangles mom till she collapses; punches and kills newborn son for crying--but gets only 2 1/2 years in prison (Tasmania)

So this useless dickwad started abusing the baby shortly after birth--punching him, suffocating him, jamming bottles in his mouth, holding him by the neck. He finally manages to kill the baby.

And we supposed to feel sorry for the same dickwad because of his "difficult childhood" and his "various handicaps to being a father"? Oh puleeze. More freaking daddy coddling at its finest. They guy will serve less than 3 years for what he did. Outrageous. And that's not even going into the assaults on the baby's mother.

Dad is identified as SIMON ADAM JOHNSTONE.

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/1990829/dad-jailed-for-punching-baby/?cs=95

Dad jailed for punching baby

By GEORGIE BURGESS

Dec. 24, 2013, 1 a.m.

A FATHER who punched his newborn son to stop him crying was yesterday sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

North-West man Simon Adam Johnstone, 25, pleaded guilty to one charge of ill-treating a child and three charges of assault on his partner. The child later died in hospital of injuries, but authorities were unable to establish who inflicted the fatal injuries.

The ill-treatment began in late 2012 shortly after the child's birth, where the father punched the child to stop him crying, held the child around the neck, and also placed his hand over the child's nose and mouth until it could not breathe.

He also shoved the child's bottle down his throat in an attempt to silence him.

A community nurse found a seven centimetre bruise on the child, and Johnstone replied: "I punched him because he wouldn't shut up."

Johnstone strangled his partner while she was holding the baby until she collapsed and dropped him.

Yesterday in Hobart's Supreme Court, Chief Justice Alan Blow took into account Johnstone's difficult childhood, and his various handicaps to being a father. Johnstone's sentence will be backdated from March 2013.