I wouldn’t be a bit surprised, after all, one thing the lawyers of these scum child-killers take advantage of to get their evil clients out of prison early is the short memory society has with regards to murdered children. The initial anger subsides, the threats to start petitions for the death penalty die down and dwindle away to nothing and the furious, outraged people go back to their own lives.
I still remember six year old John Erik Ashfield (pictured) and what happened to him in his own home in the country town of Nowra back in 1993. I remember almost every detail of his sickening death at the hands of his cruel mother, Gunn-Britt, and her sadistic retard boyfriend Austin Hughes.
This bitch and her mate spent 24 hours torturing her own little boy to death using a variety of implements lying around their squat of a house. She had even held his head while Hughes hit it with a hammer. And all this in front of John’s five brothers and sisters. I recall how she blamed his injuries on a bashing by local youths and went on television to beg the public for information about it – I recall how hideous she looked and just how transparent her charade and lies were…it didn’t take an expert to know she was lying through her rotting teeth. The couple were sentenced to 21 years prison – she recently made an unsuccessful bid for parole – now Austin Hughes has made a plea for early release and if justice still means anything in Australia then his pleas must be IGNORED!
The parole board of NSW will make their decision on December 8th – in making that decision they should show this creature the same mercy he showed to that beautiful little boy during that horrific 24 hours back in 1993…
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Wendy- you are awesome. I share your outrage at the victimization of children. I wish more people cared. It is as though people are becoming animals….these people are 1 step away from the Chimp that bit off that ladies hands and face (CT, see Oprah) …one small step.
Well Mary, that particular little boy in Australia was the subject of a very, very sad story and unfortunately there is hardly anything to read about him online. Basically he was living with his drug addict mother and her latest boyfriend when he was set upon by them both one afternoon as he arrived home from school. He was six. They bashed him senseless over a period of 24 hours and even forced his siblings to participate – they then took him to hospital when he was barely breathing and blamed his injuries on a group of local kids. The police were not fooled though and they were arrested.
What sickened everyone though was when little John’s natural father came forward soon after and claimed that he had tried many times to get custody of John and his sister but social services had refused to take the children away from the mother. The dad was a recovering heroin addict but he was devoted to his kids and was desperate to get his children out of his ex-wife’s hands as he knew something terrible would happen to one of them…and it did. I recall the little boys funeral on the tv news and that poor man howling his eyes out at his sons coffin – it was absolutely heartwrenching. The way that man was treated afterwards was nothing short of horrendous – even after Gunn Britt went to prison for what she did to her child Johns father was STILL denied access to his remaining children while at the same time SHE was allowed to have them brought to see her at her jail!
He continued to fight for custody of his other children by her and even appeared in several news stories trying to garner support, which he did get a lot of from the community as he was a man trying very hard to do the best for his children, but social services would not budge and even made moves to have those kids adopted out. Brian Ashfield only gave up his fight for his children when he could no longer live with his grief for little John and fight against the authorities as well – he died of an accidental overdose a couple of years after John died. But he did his best.
There was another child around the same time who died in similar circumstances – Wesley Thwaite – his was a shocking, tragic story but I cannot find anything at all online about him. I recall well the details on the news and in the newspapers from the time – if I manage to come upon anything I will write about him here too.
Actually your comment re the chimp is interesting – chimps and humans are about the only species that kill their own young and female chimps are known to allow a new mate to kill their babies…just like humans.
It is appalling that time and time again these “mothers” are allowed to keep their children. I read what I could find about Little John. It was heartbreaking. His sister said he plead for his life and cried throughout his torture.I cannot believe the whore mother still gets to see her other children
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33945506/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/ET
Please check out this horrible story from the US. I must admit that I cried when I read it….I had naively hoped she would be found alive. Again, another wonderful mother. You can see in her face that she has no soul.
I am simply baffled by this degree of evil. Only the purest of evil could look into a child’s face and commit such acts. It is not human.
Interesting about the chimps, maybe we should give them free housing, food, $, and medical care too. Maybe they will change!
Mary I love that last line you wrote – how true, how true. Thanks for the link, shall check it out.