Abusive Mother

This is another case in which just plain cruelty and torture are involved. She broke his leg and left him without medical attention for two days. As someone who has had broken legs in the past I know how painful they can be and to have them for two days with no help? And admitting that she has tortured him in various different ways since he could walk calls for more than a 9 year sentence I would think:



IL - An Aurora woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison for breaking her 3-year-old son's leg in a fit of rage, officials said Thursday.

Estela Ramirez-Placido, 24, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery to a child and domestic abuse in June and was sentenced by Kane County Associate Judge T. Jordan Gallagher.

Prosecutors said the abuse happened April 23, 2007, when Ramirez-Placido became "enraged" at the toddler for soiling his pants.

After cleaning the boy, Ramirez-Placido began to hit him. When he fought back, she held him against a wall by the neck and punched him in the stomach until he fell to the floor. According to the charges, she then knelt next to the child and twisted his leg until it snapped.

The boy went without medical attention for two days, at which point Ramirez-Placido's boyfriend convinced her to take him to a hospital, where she acknowledged responsibility, according to the state's attorney's office.

Prosecutors said the mother further acknowledged to police that she had abused the boy since he was able to walk, and was responsible for a burn mark, scars, bruises, bite marks and scratches covering the boys body, including his genitals. - Read the entire article here