[freeatlast]

Here's a sad case. I know of a 20 yr old upc raised young man who spanked his 2 yr old daughter. apparently to hard. The closed fist to the thigh broke her leg.

I visited this kid in county jail for over a year while he was going thru the legal system (Illinois) His mother goes to my church, he actually goes/went to a neighboring upc.

This was his first offense.

During the trial the wife did state that he had spanked the child once beofre to hard and left bruising.

Long and short of it in illinois causing harm to a chiild is a class X felony.

He was sentenced o 11 years in Prison and under Illinois law he will do 85% of that sentence or about 8 years.

He was acrive in his church and in fact had just come in from teaching a home bible study.


My thoughts are that the harsh sentence was over the top for a first time offense.

At his trial the court gallery was full of long hair and long dress's from his church and they played up that he was a good boy, a good Christian.
The "hey, I'm a Christian" did'nt set well the judge, who could have given him the minimum sentence of 6 years.

He's been in State prison 6 hours away from his family now for about two years.