The story is of course from New Haven, Connecticut, which is a liberal wasteland and practically the worst city in the state. Having been there many times I can’t say I’m surprised:
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A judge on Friday spared a man from prison time for his role in the dehydration death of a toddler who was deprived of food and liquids for at least a week.
Despite criticism from the victim’s mother, who cried throughout the sentencing hearing, New Haven Superior Court Judge Richard Damiani sentenced Robert Patterson to five years’ probation in the death of 23-month-old Amari Jackson.
Charges of manslaughter, cruelty and and risk of injury to a minor are pending against Robert Patterson’s sister Sharon Patterson, who police say was primarily responsible for the little boy’s death in February.
Hamden police say Sharon Patterson deprived the boy of liquids for at least seven days because he wet a bed. They say she also left cups laced with hot sauce around her apartment to teach him a lesson about drinking from other people’s glasses.
Prosecutor Michael Pepper said that although Robert Patterson witnessed the abuse, his role was, at worst, “arguably passive.”
Sharon Patterson was taking care of the boy for an ailing friend, Sara Hicks.
“I understand that Amari was not left in the direct care of Robert Patterson, but does that give him a right to watch my son be tortured, do nothing about it and get away scot-free?” Hicks wrote in a victim’s statement read in court Friday.
Robert Patterson had reached a plea deal with authorities in September, pleaded guilty to risk of injury to a minor. The charge could have brought up to 10 years in prison, but the plea deal included the recommended probationary sentence that the judge imposed Friday.
“You have a lot to think about, Mr. Patterson,” Damiani said.
Like how lucky he was to watch a child be tortured to death in a cesspool like New Haven, where standing by idly while someone murders a defenseless child is considered passive, even though he actively decided to not give the kid some fluids. He deserves to die for what he did, along with his degenerate sister.
I wonder what the sentence would have been had Amari been White?