By coercion or intimidation. Mr crouch intimidated you into sole care of jacob crouch intimidated you into sole care ofjacob although he crouch intimidated you into sole care of jacob although he was unfit for that role. He accused you of lacking trust for him when he was bathing jacob. You did not have the confidence to confront him when he kicked the cot. I submit that the level of your culpability is very high with category one harm. That is unrealistic in the fact and difficult to apply if correct because the offence predatesjune 2022, yet the Sentencing Range for that category exceeds the maximum sentence. I believe the level of culpability is on the borderline between high level b and medium, level c. I will take seven years as the starting point. There are no statutory aggregating features. The Non Statutory aggregating features are not seeking medical help at the time of the assault or the ten hours that followed. Again, i bear in mind the danger of double counting. Jacob suffe
just hearing the sentencing of the baby s mother, gemma barton. we will try to bring you back to that as quickly as we can. the judge saying that he is taking into account the psychiatric report which found a history of mental disorder and that she was susceptible to manipulation and coercion. thejudge continued by saying that craig crouch manipulated gemma barton with controlling behaviour. he says there is ample evidence of that and he acknowledges that gemma barton s time in custody has been tougher due to being treated for breast cancer. we are trying to bring you back to that sentencing. following on from the