[Cake Faced Kid.]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ood-drink.html

A mother whose neglected two-year-old son died a prolonged and horrible death after drinking poisonous plant food laughed as she walked free from court today.

Lauren Booth, 24, was growing cannabis in her home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and was asleep when her son Aaron drank the toxic liquid.

She was handed a 12-month suspended sentence at Bradford Crown Court today after being found guilty of child neglect.
Aaron had not been fed and was probably extremely hungry and thirsty when he drank the liquid, the trial heard.

He died 11 days later after his windpipe disintegrated and suffered several other internal injuries, including burns to his stomach, pancreas and spleen.

Judge Colin Burn described the toddler’s death as terrible as he sentenced Booth.

He said: 'It was a cataclysmic, single failure to act.

Aaron was almost three, at an age where he was curious and everything was a challenge, therefore by failing to supervise him you allowed this terrible event to happen.

'I’m bound to say that Aaron’s death was a prolonged and frankly horrible one. There is no other way to describe it. And it was preventable.

'By simply moving it along the windowsill and forgetting about it and also by failing to get up in the morning to look after Aaron, knowing that the bottle was in the house, you acted in neglect.'

Booth's partner at the time had taken the pH Up brand plant food into the house in Norris Close, Judge Burn said.
The blue bottle contained a highly toxic concentration of potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash, and two teaspoons of it would have been a fatal dose.

It was thought that Aaron, who was described as being at an age where any new item was a curiosity or a challenge, may have mistaken the bottle for the soft drink Fruit Shoot.

Information about growing cannabis was discovered in a notebook and laptop seized from the house by police.

Judge Burn told Booth: 'The evidence that this liquid was used for growing cannabis was strong. You should not even have allowed the liquid to be brought into the same house as Aaron.'

He continued: 'You knew that the content of that bottle of plant growing liquid could be harmful to Aaron, you knew that there was the risk that Aaron could get to the bottle. You failed to take proper steps to prevent him getting to that bottle.'

He added: 'By failing to move the bottle, or failing to supervise him, you allowed this terrible event to happen.'





This is disgusting. She smiled as she left court, but her child died, she should have nothing to smile about. Our justice system is screwed up.
Life imprisonment would have been more appropriate.

[Snagprophet]

This is pretty ****ed up, especially coming from a parent. So does this mean that I am legally allowed to grow cannabis? Because I don't see any consequence for her growing it. Or is this a result of Daily Mail reporting?

[ellieee-x]

that poor child what a dreadful life he must have had with that as a mother. she's had another child? she shouldn't be allowed to have children! our justice (or lack of) system really is diabolical.

[Darth Stewie]

booth and her partner were awoken by a loud thud at around 12.40pm on November 6 2010, to find Aaron lying down with a brown mouth and lips.

By the time paramedics arrived, Aaron's mouth and lips were purple and he was foaming at the mouth.

Judge Burn said Booth was a loving mother to Aaron and tried her best to look after him but made some poor judgments.

'Most parents do, from time to time, make some poor judgments in respect of their children. The unfortunate aspect of this case is on 6 November your poor judgment had fatal consequences,' he said.

'You will have to live with his death long after any sentence from this court has been served.'

Judge Burn said an immediate prison sentence would not benefit the public or Booth, who has since had another child.

He said reports showed that she did not pose any risk to her children and rehabilitation would help her to become a 'proper, appropriate, satisfactory, at least adequate parent in the future'.

The judge said the maximum suspended sentence he could pass was one of 12 months but said he would suspend it for the maximum period of two years, during which time Booth would be under supervision.

More inclined to believe the judges reasoning than the daily mail tbh. If she is no danger to the public there is no need for her to be costing us money by sitting in prison. What happened is terrible but for all we know it could have been a horrible accident and one snap in the daily mail of her smiling is not evidence that she doesn't care.

[OMGWTFBBQ]

I'm not sure that a custodial sentence is deserved here. We have all been in potentially dangerous situations without parental supervision. It just so happened that this situation became fatal.

The fact that the substance was used to facilitate criminal activity is irrelevant to any negligence in this situation.

[n00]

(Original post by Snagprophet)
So does this mean that I am legally allowed to grow cannabis? Because I don't see any consequence for her growing it. Or is this a result of Daily Mail reporting?

I don't think a bottle of fertilser and a cannabis growing guide is sufficient evidence.

[Snagprophet]

(Original post by n00)
I don't think a bottle of fertilser and a cannabis growing guide is sufficient evidence.

Well the article states that she was growing cannabis so I'm sure whoever told the reporter this found out when they found the cannabis farm. Unless it's just another 'I have a human right to keep cannabis food and a cannabis guide in my home' scenario.

[n00]

(Original post by Snagprophet)
Well the article states that she was growing cannabis so I'm sure whoever told the reporter this found out when they found the cannabis farm. Unless it's just another 'I have a human right to keep cannabis food and a cannabis guide in my home' scenario.

"Police searched the house but found no living house plants and no cannabis plants."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...uit-Shoot.html

What is cannabis food? Fertilizer is fertilizer it could be used for tomatoes, strawberries, house plants...... There is no law against having fertilizer or cannabis grow guides.

[Snagprophet]

(Original post by n00)
"Police searched the house but found no living house plants and no cannabis plants."

Oh, was that in a completely different article than what you linked to? Because it sure isn't in the DM one.

[n00]

(Original post by Snagprophet)
Oh, was that in a completely different article than what you linked to? Because it sure isn't in the DM one.

Ah sorry no it was in that article, the Daily Mail seem to have edited it out.

http://elitedaily.com/elite/2012/tod...row-marijuana/

[Mr Dangermouse]

That's a joke. I'm not saying this was a cold blooded murder or life or anything. I'd have given her 10-12 years.

[Shabalala]

The fact she smiled and laughed over the incident where her child died a painful death tells you everything you need to know anyone who sticks up for her is pathetic regardless of whever she was growing Cannabis or not (it's highly likley she was) she still caused the death and doesn't seem to care yet you ultra left wing liberal retards are sticking up for her.

[simonbellringer]

The woman is the lowest of scum. She should have been made to drink plant food herself. To laugh as she walks free just makes it worse. Honestly, the justice system in this country is nothing short of a joke, and it is little wonder that events like this are happening time after time; because people can get away with murder. Social Services should have acted too, but I expect nothing less of SS; they are hopeless.

[weirdnessandcoffee]

Well, shes a bi*** ain't she?

[apolocreed]

(Original post by Snagprophet)
This is pretty ****ed up, especially coming from a parent. So does this mean that I am legally allowed to grow cannabis? Because I don't see any consequence for her growing it. Or is this a result of Daily Mail reporting?

Nope, I've read other reports and it seems she'll be able to keep on enjoying some home grown...


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[ANARCHY__]

(Original post by Mr Dangermouse)
That's a joke. I'm not saying this was a cold blooded murder or life or anything. I'd have given her 10-12 years.

So what's going to happen to her other kid if you do that?

[Mr Dangermouse]

(Original post by ANARCHY__)
So what's going to happen to her other kid if you do that?

You're saying this woman is fit to raise a child?


If there is no father or other family then the kid should go into care.

[OMG TOOTHBRUSH]

(Original post by OMGWTFBBQ)
I'm not sure that a custodial sentence is deserved here. We have all been in potentially dangerous situations without parental supervision. It just so happened that this situation became fatal.

The fact that the substance was used to facilitate criminal activity is irrelevant to any negligence in this situation.

I think a prison sentence is deserved here, if not only because he died 11 days after drinking the toxic plant food, probably in agony, and the mother did nothing to help him.

[ANARCHY__]

(Original post by Mr Dangermouse)
You're saying this woman is fit to raise a child?


If there is no father or other family then the kid should go into care.

The judge certainly seems to think so. Care is not an ideal option and neither is being raised by one parent. I don't see your logic for punishing the child when the judge has deemed the woman fit for rehabilitation.

[Matty Smoothie]

Has the other child been taken away from her yet?