Petition to retry Lorien Norman, Adelaide mother who beat her daughter severely in the face, and yet got no jail time.

nikhilbhavsar · 2018-07-11T01:13:05+00:00

TLDR: "I'm not going to jail...what's your next move?"

A MOTHER who admitted to bashing her baby daughter before threatening to throw her battered body off a balcony won’t spend a night in jail because, according to a South Australian judge, her crime was “far from the most serious”.

Lorien Norman, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after beating her eight-month-old daughter Evie with her hand and a large slotted cooking spoon at her Adelaide unit on October 1 last year.

The Adelaide District Court heard harrowing details of how Norman called police on the night of the assault and threatened to throw Evie off a balcony.

Officers raced to the address where they found Evie with serious injuries to her face, including significant bruising to her forehead, cheeks, ears, neck and arm, and a welt mark from a slotted cooking spoon across one of her cheeks.

The district court was told the baby’s mother had initially lied to police and tried covering up her crime by telling responding officers that her daughter had sustained her injuries in a fall at a playground.

Photos uploaded to Facebook sometime after the attack show the 32-week-old baby with a black eye, abrasions and a small cut on her face, and the welt mark from the slotted spoon on her cheek. The officers conveyed both Norman and her daughter to the local hospital where a thorough physical examination confirmed Evie had been assaulted and hit in the face and body at least eight times.

In sentencing Norman in the Adelaide District Court last week, Judge Jack Costello noted the 26-year-old’s history of drug and alcohol abuse but said the now mother-of-two had started to turn her life around.

“In the DPP’s submission the injuries were caused by reason of a sustained and deliberate assault by you upon your daughter which involved multiple blows, at least one of which was with a slotted spoon to your daughter’s face and that this indicated more than a momentary loss of control on your part,” Costello said.

“Whilst any assault of a child, particularly one of such a tender age and vulnerability, by a parent stands as a gross breach of trust, your offending is nevertheless far from the most serious of offending of this type in terms of the degree of force involved and the duration of the offending.

“In this respect, I particularly note the opinion of the treating paediatrician to the effect that there was no evidence of bony or intracranial injury and that your daughter’s physical injuries were likely to completely resolve.”

Norman was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison last Wednesday, but the term was fully suspended in return for her guilty plea.

She instead walked free from court on a $500 two-year good behaviour bond for an offence with usually carries a maximum jail term of 13 years.

In an interview with 9News.com.au, Norman’s former partner Shane McMahon expressed his outrage at the district court’s decision and claimed Norman’s actions were fuelled by jealousy over his new relationship.

Mr Mahon claims Norman had just found out about a new relationship he was in and he believes the attack was done with a view of getting back at him.

The attack also occurred on the anniversary of the day of his father’s death from cancer, a time of year his former partner knew he found particularly upsetting, Mr McMahon said.

“She knew that I had gotten a new partner, she knew that it was my dad’s anniversary, and she did that to Evie,” he said.

On the day of the assault, police officers knocked on McMahon's door asking if he knew where Norman was.

“A few hours later I had a phone call from major crime scene detectives saying Evie was at hospital with life-threatening injuries,” Mr McMahon said.

“I rocked up there and she (Evie) was just beside herself. All she wanted to do was have a bottle. They couldn’t console her and as soon as she got into my arms she just went quiet.”

“All she wanted was a bottle but she couldn’t even drink it because she was so bruised and could barely open her mouth. It was horrible.”

Mr McMahon said he planned to fight the decision and was meeting with his lawyer next week to see what could be done to appeal it.

“How do they expect me to hand over my child to her? How do you expect me to put her back in the arms of that person?” he said."

Her response? "I'm not going to jail...what's your next move?"

edit: added TLDR

chambertlo · 2018-07-11T06:32:30+00:00

There is nothing more powerful than the ability of a mother to destroy the life of her child.

nikhilbhavsar · 2018-07-11T01:14:24+00:00

Please share the petition in other subreddits to spread the word!

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xXx_bayMAX_950_xXx · 2018-07-11T21:40:00+00:00

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Title	Petition to retry Lorien Norman, Adelaide mother who beat her daughter severely in the face, and yet got no jail time.
Author	nikhilbhavsar
Upvotes	79
Comments	4
Date	July 11, 2018 1:08 AM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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