My brutal ex left our baby boy with brain damage but he’ll be out after just a couple of months.. SO HOW IS THAT RIGHT?
A HORRIFIED mum is demanding a tougher sentence for her violent ex-fiancé, who shook their tot so hard the boy has brain damage.
Tamara Dennis, 22, was appalled when drunken builder David Humphrey was jailed for just six months for the attack.
Humphrey, 31, was trying to stop sevenmonth-old Calobe from crying when he inflicted the appalling injuries.
The monster also punched the baby’s brother Milo, aged two, in the head and attacked Tamara after spraying her in the face with a deodorant.
Nursery worker Tamara was so furious about the length of sentence that she wrote to the Attorney General.
She has been told it was appropriate but has started an online petition, which has 4,000 signatures, hoping the Appeal Court will review the decision.
She said: “I’m disgusted. I can’t believe it. David gets to walk out in weeks while Calobe is brain damaged and we are all still suffering.
“Where is the justice for my boys? This is not justice. He could easily come out and do this to someone else’s child.”
Scans revealed Calobe had suffered damage to his brain.
Doctors do not yet know the severity of the damage as he is so young. But there are fears he will have learning difficulties. Humphrey was found guilty at Lewes crown court in August of child cruelty, assault and criminal damage. He was sentenced to 26 weeks with a further six weeks for a separate assault.
He was released on September 9, half way through the 32-week term, but was locked up again on the same day when he breached a non-molestation order.
He texted Tamara, saying: “I love you and honestly I’m a changed man.” He is now due to get out on December 30.
Tamara, of Hassocks, West Sussex, and Humphrey, who has four daughters from a previous relationship, knew each other as kids.
They met again through Facebook and started a relationship in December 2014.
Milo, Tamara’s son from an earlier relationship, quickly began calling Humphrey “dad”. Tamara believed he was “the perfect family man”.
She found out she was pregnant with Calobe two months later and the couple planned to wed.
But things started going downhill when Tamara suffered a miscarriage and, she claims, Humphrey began playing slot machines to raise cash for booze.
Tamara said: “He was more and more grumpy, but I never thought he would hurt me.
“He said we were the best thing to ever happen to him. He said he loved us a lot – he would tell us every day.” But in May, after a day of Milo throwing tantrums on a trip to an aquarium, Humphrey turned on Tamara as she got the boys ready for bed. He blasted Tamara with the deodorant, twisted her arm behind her back and pinned her to the wall by her throat, raining punches down on her as she desperately cradled baby Calobe. He hurled a stair gate, bookshelf and children’s toys down the stairs then turned on the kids. Milo suffered bruising and Tamara said: “Milo’s near me all the time now and he’s nervous whenever I go out of the room.” Campaigner Claude Knights, of children’s charity Kidscape, added: “This is a most harrowing case involving child cruelty and serious assault. “This jail term is a very light sentence for such a brutal attack. “It does not reflect the severity of the crime and does little to act as a deterrent to those who are prone to engage in such horrific domestic violence.”