This was an article I read in the Herald Sun newspaper a few days ago... I just found it on the Herald Sun website
| Herald Sun, Melbourne wrote: |
A 13-MONTH-OLD baby is in hospital being treated for horrific burns she suffered from being put in a clothes dryer. The girl was left with her mother's boyfriend at a Perth home while the woman went to a gym for about an hour last Thursday, police said yesterday. The baby spilt liquid on herself and the man put her in the clothes dryer and turned it on, police said.
"The person we allege has done the act has stated that he has put the child into a clothes tumble dryer, closed the door and turned it on for a couple of minutes," Sen-Det Deb Newman said. "The child had burns to both feet, to one of her hands, burns and bruising to her back, and bruising to her forehead," she said. "The injuries are horrific. In my years of being a police officer I have not seen or heard of this type of injury before."
The mother came home to find her daughter suffering serious burns, but her boyfriend did not mention the dryer, she said.
Police investigated after the hospital told them the child's injuries were suspicious and highly unusual. Sen-Det Newman said that the mother was distraught. She said the toddler should make a full recovery and be released from the burns unit at Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital for Children this week. Samuel Marc Barnes Siddall, 21, of the Perth suburb of Beldon, appeared in Perth Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with causing bodily harm or danger.
He was conditionally bailed and ordered to appear again next month. |
(sourced from http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19313240%255E662,00.html)
I personally think that guy was totally irresposible for putting a baby in a clothes dryer. I mean seriously, he must have been really stupid to do that!! 
What do you think? I'm amazed that the poor baby is still alive! 
You've got to wonder what was going through the guys head when he did it! 
I hope he gets what he deserves: a long time in prison. 
| bigdan wrote: |
| You've got to wonder what was going through the guys head when he did it! |
Yeah, I know! I was absolutely shocked when I read the article (which was on page 2 of the Herald Sun on 31st May)
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| I hope he gets what he deserves: a long time in prison. |
That is exactly right. That guy is stupid, and he definately belongs in prison! 
I bet they'll use the defence of mental problems (or something like that, with all due respect to those of us with mental health issues) to try and get off the case.
| bigdan wrote: |
| I bet they'll use the defence of mental problems (or something like that, with all due respect to those of us with mental health issues) to try and get off the case. |
We' ve seen too much of that in films and real life will be no different.
I mean, why exactly should he through the child in on purpose and if he did on purpose why didnt he kill it.
this is reason enough to suspect madness
Anyway, is this boyfriend guy the father of the child or something, that is not mentioned?
But fathering a child with no marriage is no surprise in today's world, so if he was the father then it is all the more worseHe definitely deserves to be sent to jail...
Alternatively, if they do present a case of mental instability, he should be sent to a mental institute for a few years.
I'm sorry, but this guy is not for jail, he is for a mental institution treating dangerous retards. Either he is a sociopat or mentally retarded. Either way he is a danger to anyone in his vicinity.
Electric shock therapy might be recommendable.
One word...Dumb. If he that stupid to forget about the sink or bathtub and has to go to the dryer, I think he is psychotic because who is that dumb to consider a dryer as a option when he could have went for a towel.
Wow, that is all I can say. You know this is a good time to use that quote by Ghundy: an eye for an eye!!
I say anyone who does something horrific to little children especially babies should get the same punishment!
Screw jail this guy will probably go to jail for a while come ack and who knows he might do it again! Because seriously nowadays Jail time is like a normal thing!
I can't understand that this could happen. Putting a baby in a cloth dryer?!
You must be "nuts" to do such a thing. The most commenly answer that such person say is: "It didn't noticed it, i am also shocked as you."
I hope that the baby survive this accident. The best punishment is to put him in a cloth dryer to discover how it should be in such device.
I know that i am telling crap, but i think that a lot of people agree with this.
| GDG wrote: |
Wow, that is all I can say. You know this is a good time to use that quote by Ghundy: an eye for an eye!!
I say anyone who does something horrific to little children especially babies should get the same punishment!
Screw jail this guy will probably go to jail for a while come ack and who knows he might do it again! Because seriously nowadays Jail time is like a normal thing! |
Yes it is. Something is wrong with our entire society. This guy typifies an element that has arisen in our ranks. All we can hope for is that the time the guy spends gives him the reason he needs to change his behavior. Recidivism rates are pretty high though, so by the numbers more than likely he will re-offend, though I seriously doubt he will ever put another baby in the dryer again, that argument is just ridiculous. More than likely, someone will teach him how to manufacture methamphetamine, or steal other peoples identity, or steal cars or something, and he will harass society for a few years at a time, do some more time where we will collectively pay 25,000 a year, get out, harass us some more, over and over again.I see you all (rightfully) “attacking” the boyfriend; it appears that he has some kind of serious mental problem. But what about the baby’s mother!? It is highly doubtful that this is the first extremely dumb thing that the boyfriend has done. A mother who leaves her child with a dummy is a dummy herself.
The man would be a danger to anyone who is powerless around him. The mother needs to be locked up also for being terminally stupid. It can't be the first time that he did something stupid/violent, maybe torturing small animals or slapping kids around might have been a clue.
i don't think dumb is a big enough word
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What kind of an idiot would do that?
I mean, common sense people. There is no way you put ANYONE into a dryer, let alone a child. He should get locked up for a long time and get slopped around by the big kids in jail and get some sense knocked into him for what he did.
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| scorpio wrote: |
But fathering a child with no marriage is no surprise in today's world, so if he was the father then it is all the more worse |
Not really, my aunt - in her forty-somethings - has been living with my "uncle" for just over 20 years. They have two kids - and they aren't married. Not being married does not undermine a couple's love for each other, or for their kids.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with love without marriage.
Anyway,
As for the man who put his girlfriend's baby in the tumble-dryer - I can't see him going to prison.
He obviously isn't very intelligent - but the act does not appear to have been done in mal-intent, and stupidty does not neccesarily equate to insanity. More than anything, I guess he didn't understand how exactly clothes dryers work 
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The point of sending someone to prison is to "teach someone a lesson", put other people off doing the same thing, and/or to keep said person separate from society, to keep society safe.
I think realising what he'd done to the child would have been enough for him to realise what he'd done, and more than regret it. I think the story alone - with it's consequences - is more than enough to put all the other idiots off the same idea. And in the story there is nothing to say he actually intended to harm the child, so what would be the point in keeping him locked away.... - to protect us from the stupid?
If you are going to use tax-payers money on anything, use it on educating him. So he can become a more productive member of society, and become a better person in the future. Instead of locking him away where he can fall further behind, only to be released again, into the same life/circumstances/mind-set.
I guess you need more information before you can make judgement.
This is just like the stories you hear of pet-owners who put their pets in the microwave to "dry" them... dumb, but not neccesarily malicious. | blackheart wrote: |
Not being married does not undermine a couple's love for each other, or for their kids.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with love without marriage. |
Well said! Whether people get married or not is only the valid business of those contemplating/deciding it. Not only shouldn’t other individuals have a say, when it’s not their business, but neither should Government have a say.[%%]
| blackheart wrote: |
| More than anything, I guess he didn't understand how exactly clothes dryers work . |
Yes, and it might seem strange to most of us that someone could not know. I once had an occasion to help deal with a small fire in an office building; it turns out that the young adult did not realize that you can’t cook with metal plates in a microwave. I didn’t/don’t think she was dumb; she just hadn’t had experience with microwave ovens.
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| blackheart wrote: | Not being married does not undermine a couple's love for each other, or for their kids.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with love without marriage. |
Well said! Whether people get married or not is only the valid business of those contemplating/deciding it. Not only shouldn’t other individuals have a say, when it’s not their business, but neither should Government have a say.[%%]
| blackheart wrote: | | More than anything, I guess he didn't understand how exactly clothes dryers work . |
Yes, and it might seem strange to most of us that someone could not know. I once had an occasion to help deal with a small fire in an office building; it turns out that the young adult did not realize that you can’t cook with metal plates in a microwave. I didn’t/don’t think she was dumb; she just hadn’t had experience with microwave ovens.
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[%%] This is one part of a larger principle. The Government and busy-body neo-cons in the US, for example, continue to stick their intrusive noses into the area of gay marriages, actively working to ban them (though news today is that the Senate is short of votes to ban). Not only should these Nosey Noses not have a say in gay marriages, but they shouldn’t have a say in heterosexual or any other marriages. |
yeah but u should still know enough to not put a kid in the dryer.I honestly don't know what to say about this idiot. I'm no mental giant, but if my daughter spilt something on herself and was all wet...I would change her clothes, clean her up, and put her into dry things. Granted, I may make a mess myself in doing it (I am a man after all)....but never in a million years would my daughter sustain injury from my actions....my wife might belt me upside my ear for making a mess....but that's about the only injuries that would be sustained.
Makes you wonder how this moron changed a wet diaper.
I also agree that this could not have been the first idiotic thing he has done, so the mother must also assume some fault here for leaving her child under his care.
I really think the guy should go to jail for negligence, but I am amazed that the baby is alive.
so stupid ,i can't understand that this could happen 
common sense people wont do that He needs to be tested for mental illness, but if he fails, he gets a long term in prison for attempted murder. But although the mother can't be tried for anything, I really want to know what she was on that day. And/or if she even cared about her kid. Someone doesn't go from being a trustable person to doing something as moronic as throwing a baby in a dryer in a heartbeat.
Thats horrible. I dont really understand how someone can do something like this. If he is not mentaly ill, then he should be send to prison. Because i think prison is a place where all who can be danger to society should be send. And he IS dangerous! Even when he havent done it on purpose, he need some punishment so he will think little more next time. Because some one could get hurt again, and it could be much worst that this.
I guess it's "possible" that he honestly didn't how the dryer worked because he'd never seen one before but leaving your child with someone that naive is like leaving them with a 2 year old. The guy has to be too thick to measure. The alternative is to think that he was a lazy bastard and did it on purpose. Sadly, the latter is more likely to be true because he tried to hide it afterwards.
That's nightmarish! Being the mum to a 14 months old baby girl, I just don't want to imagine something like that.
That guy must be mental! There is no way he can do that otherwise. I just don't understand, the baby must have been crying like crazy the whole time! 
I shouldn't have read this, it's making me crazy just omagining it!!! From the OP - I personally think that guy was totally irresposible for putting a baby in a clothes dryer.
I believe that qualifies for the understatement of the year. I have seen many stupid people do many stupid things. I have seen many people do many irresponsible things. There can be no one who could be so stupid as to think it might be OK to put an infant into the dryer. This guy is the toy surprise short of a happy meal if you ask me.
Of course, a few years back, a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves burned himself while ironing a shirt, while he was wearing it. Maybe there can be people that dumb afterall...
Wierd People these days. YEa that guy really needds to get his head check. Poor baby at least he/she will never have any memory of the incident.
Nothing I can say except the man is crazy, mad, insane, etc...
There are some persons who just don't seem to have any intelligence at all. Drying a baby in a dryer is just insane. It's not possible that you don't know that it will hurt the baby, but this sort of things seem te happen from time to time.
Yeah, even an individual with severe mental inpairment would know that a dryer is hot and that it would HURT!
That man did that on purpose more than likely and is sick! Being sick is no excuse and should be put in jail, but that is just my humble opinion.
Such an irresponsible man he is!
No matter he is really mentally sick or not, it is not usual for a person to put child into a dryer. Why did he do that? What's the purpose he wanted to achieve?
| bigdan wrote: |
I'm amazed that the poor baby is still alive!
You've got to wonder what was going through the guys head when he did it!
I hope he gets what he deserves: a long time in prison. |
Yeah, I would have thought that the baby would have died. I've heard of a few occasions when a baby has crawled into a washing machine and been killed accidently when the parent closed the door and switched started it up.
I hope that that guy is not the womans boyfriend any more. Either the guy is totally stupid and oblivious to common sense or he's a sadistic fool.
My [kind] thoughts go out to the mother, and of course, her baby.I can't understand this Did the man have any education at all or is he a total psycho? I thought things like that would only happen in 3rd world countries with low education quotient. I remember reading about a foreign maid who bathed the baby using the washing machine. The baby didn't make it. I don't even think he has one bit of common sense. How did he live to be a man without a brain?
It was very sad to read this article. And one thing that made me to relax is that the Child is safe and fine now.
Keep smiling 
