Courtney Gaston
Blog #7
There is controversy in Colorado over a case where many
believe that the slap on the wrist consequence that a 19-year-old father
received was not enough. 19-year-old Dylan Kuhn called police when he found his
daughter not breathing and hanging over the side of the bed with a blanket
around her neck. Later an autopsy showed that baby Sailor had evidence of
recent injury to her optic nerve sheath and also bleeding. These injuries were
thought to be caused by the baby being slammed against something like a firm
mattress. Dylan then admitted to the baby falling off of the couch a few days
prior supposedly but then later confessed that he did slam his daughter down on
the bed the night she died but not intending on hurting her. Dylan pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and because of a plea agreement the child abuse chargers
were dropped. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail because the judge felt as
though he would not be a repeat offender and because of his age. In addition to
jail he also has probation and get mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Cases like this enrage many people because of the extent of the situation.
Dylan killed a child and admitted to killing a child and received the bare
minimal punishment when in case similar to this but with difference
circumstances such as race or gender or location there would be a different
consequence. Inequality in our court systems has shown still relevant
today. If an African American male
were in the same situation would the verdict be the same?
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/10/18/teen-dad-who-killed-baby-sentenced-90-days?hpt=ju_r1
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