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A young man who carried out a cowardly drunken assault on an older man by tackling him when his back was turned, knocking him to the ground and punching him in the head about six times while the victim was unconscious, has been given a suspended jail term.
Alexander Richard Mapes, 22, pleaded guilty on March 12 in Rockhampton District Court to one count of assault occasioning bodily harm.
Crown prosecutor Tiffany Lawrence said Mapes and the victim were at a party in Gracemere on April 19, 2019, celebrating a friend’s birthday.
She said they were involved in a verbal argument early in the evening and the victim asked Mapes to leave the party.
A little girl who died from horrific burns after being plunged into a boiling hot bath could have been saved - only for her cruel parents to let her suffer due to fears over intervention from the Department of Child Safety Services.
Two-year-old Maddilyn-Rose Stokes was left in excruciating pain on May 20, 2017 with severe burns after being held under scalding water by her father as punishment for soiling her nappy.
The Queensland Supreme Court was told the toddler would have screamed in agony during the horrific ordeal. The water scalded her back and between her legs, with only the heels of her feet escaping the steaming water.
Evil parents who boiled girl, 2, to death left her to suffer for 5 days with injuries WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT Toddler Maddilyn-Rose Stokes, two, was forced by her father to take a boiling hot bath as a form of punishment after she soiled her nappy but died five days later
Maddilyn-Rose Ava Stokes died of her burns five days after being scalded (Image: Channel 7)
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A toddler who was held under scalding water died five days later in immense pain after her parents failed to seek medical help. Warning: Distressing details.