Step-Father Severely Beats Four-Year-Old, Given JUST Three Years

Most of the time, in our society, the scales of justice do what they’re supposed to do: they adequately punish criminals for their misdeeds, and leave us feeling just a little bit safer.

But someone who isn’t feeling safer today is a little girl in Launceston.

Why?

Well, for reasons that we cannot fathom, a judge at the Supreme Court of Launceston decided to sentence a man who severely beat a four-year-old girl to inches of her life, to just three years in jail.

That’s three years for bashing “” almost killing “” a small, defenceless toddler. And his reasoning? Well, apparently he’s just not that good at looking after children.

Yeah, no sh*t Sherlock.

Let’s review the facts, so you can see for yourself.

The Facts

On September 21st of 2015 a man named Jeremy Auld, aged 23, was left at home by his partner to watch her twin daughters and the couple’s own child while she went out. Seems pretty normal so far right? Well, we are barely getting started.

See, one of those little twins did something that pretty much all small children do. She was stubborn. Mr. Jeremy Auld (and yes, we’re going to continue using his full name because we damn well want you to remember it) asked her to get a drink.

She said no.

Why did she say no? Because she’s four years old and as far as she’s concerned she’s a bloody queen and leader of the world. That’s how childhood should be. When she wouldn’t get a drink, Mr. Jeremy Auld thought the appropriate response was to punch the four-year-old in the face. Twice.

He then asked her to put on her shoes. Likely very distressed from the fact that her caregiver had just gone full beast on her, she refused or wasn’t able to put her shoes on. Mr. Jeremy Auld again demonstrated that he made great decisions by pushing her to the ground, picking up a shoe, and hitting her in the face with it. Hard.

Not surprisingly that was about as much as the four-year-old could take of this David and Goliath grudge match. Distressed, unwell and vomiting she started to have trouble breathing. Mr. Jeremy Auld then called his partner and told her there had been ‘an accident’ and that she should come home.

When his partner returned, she found the little girl in bed covered in vomit and sweat. She also had the imprint of a shoe on her face. You know, from where her caregiver had hit her with one.

Mr. Jeremy Auld admitted that he had hit the toddler, at which point she was rushed to hospital by ambulance because he had done so much damage she needed emergency surgery.

The Result

As a result of Mr. Jeremy Auld’s entirely unprovoked and disgusting beating on the child under his care, her life will never be the same. The girl suffered injuries to her bowel, liver, pancreas, as well as bruises to her right ear, right neck, left face, chest, abdomen and upper thighs. She will bear the scars of her emergency surgery for the rest of her life.

Her life will be hard, and different from all the other little girls, all because she acted like a four-year-old in front of a man who is nothing more than scum.

Explain This

Now that you’ve heard the story, you’ll likely be as livid as we were when we heard that Mr. Jeremy Auld, the charming man who thinks that his lack of parenting skills makes it ok to bash toddlers, received just a three year sentence. You might be even more livid when you know that the judge (Justice Pearce), in sentencing this pillar of the community, said this:

“I accept that the defendant is sorry for what he did. He has already paid the price.”

Has he really Justice Pearce?

Pray tell, just what price is that, compared to the little girl? Was he also beaten by someone he trusted, and loved, and put his faith in? Does he also bear physical and emotional scars that may never heal?