Baby killers are getting off lightly

ANOTHER baby has died at the hands of his father and, again, the conviction is for manslaughter, not murder.

Ry Liam Smith was yesterday sentenced to just nine years’ jail for killing four- month- old Lennoxx Eddy.

Court evidence was harrowing to say the least.

The jury heard of a man who would pinch his baby son’s nose so hard it would bruise.

“I like to hear him cry,” Smith would say.

Smith claimed he was trying to “toughen up” that tiny soul.

It’s been just a few months since the also reported on the emotionless Nicholas Baxter who was found guilty of manslaughter in November for shaking or striking his six- week- old baby Matthew to death. He was sentenced to nine years’ jail. Just a month before that, on the Gold Coast, four- year- old Tyrell Cobb’s mother pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was also sentenced to nine years’ jail. Her ex- partner Matthew Ian Scown was sentenced to four years but was released as he’d already spent two years and eight months in jail awaiting trial.

Children have lost their lives and it’s hard to believe that those responsible have been held to account.

It’s very difficult to understand why, when a child has been killed by their parents, there is no murder conviction.

Maybe it’s too hard for any rightminded human to believe that anyone could deliberately kill their own baby.

But it’s even harder to understand the horrific pain endured by a voiceless, untarnished little creature at the hands of the individuals that should be protecting them.

Why that mistreatment is not punished more severely is impossible to comprehend.

The only comfort we can take from little Lennoxx’s death is that he was saved from a life of enduring pain at the hands of his drug- addled father.