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Police allege the woman intentionally threw her 10-month-old son onto a cement walkway. (ABC)

• In the Northern Territory a woman accused of throwing her baby onto a cement walkway during an argument has pleaded not guilty to endangering the baby.

Police allege the 21-year-old woman intentionally threw her 10-month-old son onto the cement walkway at the Palmerston bus exchange in May last year.

The Darwin Magistrates Court heard the woman was drunk and had been arguing with her husband before she threw the baby.

It is alleged she then picked up the boy and struggled with a man trying to take the infant away from her.

The court heard the child spent a night in the Royal Darwin Hospital but was not seriously injured.

The woman has pleaded not guilty to recklessly endangering serious harm and aggravated assault.

Small world we live in ain’t it….

When logging on earlier on AOL there was a news story of a mum, throwing her child onto a concrete floor in a bus station in Darwin (be warned the footage is out there and its not comfy viewing).

It is awful to watch, but what is more awful, this was a hard surface the little child was thrown onto and from what I have found on line there is NO mention of the TRIAD being present. Thankfully the child appears to be fit and well. There appears to be a disturbance after the throwing incident and the baby is pulled, shook, about by a member or public (?) trying to take the baby off the woman.

The Australian Triad seems to have turned upside down the British one…as it doesn’t seem to exist…hmmmm

G’day 

Evening all,

Just an observation or two… why is it that we the public can get done (and quite rightly) if an offence is committed and yet those in some sort of power can’t? 

Another case of this practise of two levels of justice to follow on from the dodgy bankers and dodgy MP’s (not all of either of them of course), you know my views on certain experts profiteering on misery making up the third part of the triad of greed. But the scale of the problems at a certain hospital is scarey…and yet nobody gets hauled over the coals, locked up…no they get paid off and quietly allowed to leave and no lessons seem to be learnt and no one is held to account. This can’t keep happening.

Sadly closer to the nightmare we and many others have to live through, it was the anniversary of Victoria Climbie’s death the other day and yet still, there are issues, the system needs to learn and learn the lessons well and not then forget them, or allow new managers to come in and say lets change it (this happens a lot, so people can make their name, they take something that works and then screw it up - or is it me)?

I am keen to use our experience and all the others to help the Police, Social Services and the rest learn. Like the poor staff at Stafford they aren’t all to blame, just left to cope when things start going wrong. Lets hope justice starts being fair again and soon.

Take care

The man on the Clapham Bendy Bus

Hi,

More good news, closer to home the Police have dropped the charges in a case in the East Anglia region very recently. It only leaves Social Services now for this family to face before hopefully they can get on with rebuilding their life’s, thankfully they haven’t gone through the mill for too long. Its been long enough for us, nearly 5 years, but there are others in prison still who have had many years more than Keran.

It worries me that you always need new evidence in an appeal really to stand a chance, it really worries me that the fact things may not have been done right in the first place. Some of these people may well have been told to go guilty or you don’t stand a chance.

The other thing is that the males (usually Dads, sometimes boyfriends) still in prison, do seem to get longer sentences too, which seems a little bit on the discrimination side. But what do I know…