Three-year-old beaten to death and filmed – long prison sentence for stepmother in England After Australia, now Thailand: Highly radioactive cylinder disappeared from power station

A young woman in England has been sentenced to a long prison term for beating her three-year-old stepson to death and filming the dying child. A court in Nottingham sentenced the 23-year-old on Thursday to 15 years in prison, including manslaughter.

The child was the victim of a “sustained violent attack” in August 2021, according to the judge. Text messages from the convicts to the boy’s father after the crime showed “a shocking lack of care and concern”.

At the time of the crime, the woman was alone with the three-year-old, who was unable to speak. She said the child fell backwards off a couch and hit his head on the floor. However, the court concluded that the woman had beaten the boy several times. She had already abused the child several times, breaking his arm.

When the boy lost consciousness, the stepmother filmed him and only called an ambulance a few minutes later. “She considered ways to evade responsibility for her actions as Harvey fought for his life,” prosecutors said. The boy died in hospital two days later. (sda/dpa)