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Shanay Walker: Mother and daughter jailed for 12 years for cruelty
A mother and daughter were locked up yesterday for a total of 12 years for abusing Shanay Walker.
Kay-Ann Morris, 23, fought back tears as she was given eight years for cruelty to the schoolgirl. She was cleared of the seven-year-old's murder on Thursday.
Her mother, Juanila Smikle, 54, was given four years after being convicted of four charges of cruelty, one on Shanay, after a trial at Nottingham Crown Court.
Today, we can reveal the shocking transcript of Morris shouting and screaming abuse at Shanay on the phone.
Trial judge Sir Alistair MacDuff told Morris: "You tried to break her like a wild horse – by punishing her severely every time you perceived her to be misbehaving."
He considered it one of the worst cases of child cruelty "it is possible to imagine".
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All little Shanay Walker wanted was her aunt Kay-Ann Morris's love, protection and support, a court heard as the 23-year-old was sentenced yesterday.
But Morris betrayed her, subjecting the seven-year-old schoolgirl to vile punishments.
Jurors at her trial heard of the appalling abuse Shanay suffered – from being thrown into a wall after she stole water to being dragged by the hair.
Morris – Shanay's legal guardian – even shoved clothes into the girl's mouth if she wore the wrong thing.
And she forced the vulnerable and troubled youngster to eat things she did not want as a punishment after she had stolen food.
Trial judge Sir Alistair MacDuff sentenced Morris, of Beckhampton Court, Bestwood park, to eight years for cruelty, in what was his last case.
He told Morris: "Let me say a word or two about Shanay. She was a lovely, feisty child.
"She was difficult and unruly. You tried to break her like a wild horse – punishing severely every time you perceived her to be misbehaving.
"But she refused to be broken; when you beat her, she stood up to you.
"And you could not bear that she refused to be cowed."
He said "how unfortunate" Shanay was to be taken from her loving foster mother, after a happy year of childhood, only to be "placed with you".
Morris was cleared by the jury on Thursday of murdering Shanay, who had been found with a fatal head injury, a fractured rib and more than 50 cuts and bruises.
Morris denied the killing and being cruel to Shanay, who was the child of her brother Vinroy Campbell.
The jury found Morris had been mean to her but did not cause her death.
"This whole series of events culminated on the night of the 30th to 31st July last year when Shanay died," said the judge.
"I will be loyal to the jury's verdict. Maybe you were not responsible for the fatal head injury. But whatever its cause, I am wholly satisfied that you beat Shanay over and over shortly before she died.
"I reach that conclusion because of the overwhelming evidence to that effect; evidence which comes from you.
"After Shanay's death, you wrote letters to your mother and you spoke with her on the phone. You told psychiatrists that you had hit Shanay, seeing not a little girl but the devil as you did so."
Shanay's grandmother Juanila Smikle, who lived in Easegill Court, Top Valley, was jailed for four years yesterday, after she was found guilty of cruelty to four children, including Shanay.The judge accepted Smikle, 54, had suffered appallingly as a youngster in her native Jamaica and her upbringing had not equipped her for good parenting.
"You had inflicted beatings and worse on your own children," he added.
Smikle had recalled she was beaten with a switch – a tree branch – or a rope but did not specify by whom, and she had been beaten and raped.
But all this had stopped, she claimed, when she arrived in the UK looking for financial support from the father of one of her sons. During her trial, she told the court: "When I came over here, I realised you can't beat your children.
The devastated mother of Shanay Walker said it "hurts and sickens" her to know of the pain Shanay would have been in.
Leanne Walker was in court every day to hear what happened to her daughter before she died.
She said after the case ended: "My beautiful daughter Shanay was entrusted to the care of family members who I believed would love and look after her.
"Instead, she was the victim of ongoing abuse and tragedy, and her life was cut short before she could become the lovely woman I know she would have grown up into.
"Juanila Smikle and Kay-Ann Morris have shown little remorse for their actions.
"It hurts and sickens me to know of the pain Shanay would have been in.
"We will miss Shanay's cuddles, her singing and dancing to Mary Poppins and our mother-and-daughter day trips to the nail salon. All we have are memories and photos.
A disturbing recording showed the wickedness inside Kay-Ann Morris.
Experts deciphered the convicted child abuser talking to Shanay from a recording on her mobile phone.
She had earlier been chatting sensibly with her niece and teacher at school.
Morris was informed Shanay had been sent to the head teacher after she threw cards on the floor during maths.
As they walked home after the meeting, Morris chastised Shanay, shouting and screaming abuse.
Morris said her niece looked ugly, like a pig, and asked why was that – because of her "stinking behaviour".
Jurors had transcripts to help them follow the distorted recording.
Morris had said to Shanay, "How can people dress you so smartly?" and "You have everything, everything, and that's how you go to behave like a dog".
A mother and daughter were locked up yesterday for a total of 12 years for abusing Shanay Walker.
Kay-Ann Morris, 23, fought back tears as she was given eight years for cruelty to the schoolgirl. She was cleared of the seven-year-old's murder on Thursday.
Her mother, Juanila Smikle, 54, was given four years after being convicted of four charges of cruelty, one on Shanay, after a trial at Nottingham Crown Court.
Today, we can reveal the shocking transcript of Morris shouting and screaming abuse at Shanay on the phone.
Trial judge Sir Alistair MacDuff told Morris: "You tried to break her like a wild horse – by punishing her severely every time you perceived her to be misbehaving."
He considered it one of the worst cases of child cruelty "it is possible to imagine".
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All little Shanay Walker wanted was her aunt Kay-Ann Morris's love, protection and support, a court heard as the 23-year-old was sentenced yesterday.
But Morris betrayed her, subjecting the seven-year-old schoolgirl to vile punishments.
Jurors at her trial heard of the appalling abuse Shanay suffered – from being thrown into a wall after she stole water to being dragged by the hair.
Morris – Shanay's legal guardian – even shoved clothes into the girl's mouth if she wore the wrong thing.
And she forced the vulnerable and troubled youngster to eat things she did not want as a punishment after she had stolen food.
Trial judge Sir Alistair MacDuff sentenced Morris, of Beckhampton Court, Bestwood park, to eight years for cruelty, in what was his last case.
He told Morris: "Let me say a word or two about Shanay. She was a lovely, feisty child.
"She was difficult and unruly. You tried to break her like a wild horse – punishing severely every time you perceived her to be misbehaving.
"But she refused to be broken; when you beat her, she stood up to you.
"And you could not bear that she refused to be cowed."
He said "how unfortunate" Shanay was to be taken from her loving foster mother, after a happy year of childhood, only to be "placed with you".
Morris was cleared by the jury on Thursday of murdering Shanay, who had been found with a fatal head injury, a fractured rib and more than 50 cuts and bruises.
Morris denied the killing and being cruel to Shanay, who was the child of her brother Vinroy Campbell.
The jury found Morris had been mean to her but did not cause her death.
"This whole series of events culminated on the night of the 30th to 31st July last year when Shanay died," said the judge.
"I will be loyal to the jury's verdict. Maybe you were not responsible for the fatal head injury. But whatever its cause, I am wholly satisfied that you beat Shanay over and over shortly before she died.
"I reach that conclusion because of the overwhelming evidence to that effect; evidence which comes from you.
"After Shanay's death, you wrote letters to your mother and you spoke with her on the phone. You told psychiatrists that you had hit Shanay, seeing not a little girl but the devil as you did so."
Shanay's grandmother Juanila Smikle, who lived in Easegill Court, Top Valley, was jailed for four years yesterday, after she was found guilty of cruelty to four children, including Shanay.The judge accepted Smikle, 54, had suffered appallingly as a youngster in her native Jamaica and her upbringing had not equipped her for good parenting.
"You had inflicted beatings and worse on your own children," he added.
Smikle had recalled she was beaten with a switch – a tree branch – or a rope but did not specify by whom, and she had been beaten and raped.
But all this had stopped, she claimed, when she arrived in the UK looking for financial support from the father of one of her sons. During her trial, she told the court: "When I came over here, I realised you can't beat your children.
The devastated mother of Shanay Walker said it "hurts and sickens" her to know of the pain Shanay would have been in.
Leanne Walker was in court every day to hear what happened to her daughter before she died.
She said after the case ended: "My beautiful daughter Shanay was entrusted to the care of family members who I believed would love and look after her.
"Instead, she was the victim of ongoing abuse and tragedy, and her life was cut short before she could become the lovely woman I know she would have grown up into.
"Juanila Smikle and Kay-Ann Morris have shown little remorse for their actions.
"It hurts and sickens me to know of the pain Shanay would have been in.
"We will miss Shanay's cuddles, her singing and dancing to Mary Poppins and our mother-and-daughter day trips to the nail salon. All we have are memories and photos.
A disturbing recording showed the wickedness inside Kay-Ann Morris.
Experts deciphered the convicted child abuser talking to Shanay from a recording on her mobile phone.
She had earlier been chatting sensibly with her niece and teacher at school.
Morris was informed Shanay had been sent to the head teacher after she threw cards on the floor during maths.
As they walked home after the meeting, Morris chastised Shanay, shouting and screaming abuse.
Morris said her niece looked ugly, like a pig, and asked why was that – because of her "stinking behaviour".
Jurors had transcripts to help them follow the distorted recording.
Morris had said to Shanay, "How can people dress you so smartly?" and "You have everything, everything, and that's how you go to behave like a dog".
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Another 'lessons will be learnt' case.
Low life scumbag Finola Cash, 32, left her 11 month old baby in the bath while she kept an urgent appointment with her low life scumbag drug dealer. She was out buying crack cocaine when her son's bath seat fell into the bathwater in their bedsit in Edgware, London. She had been visited several time by social workers, including the day the boy died. She got 6 years. |
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And another one.
William Mead, 12 months young, died from septicaemia in December. At an inquest Professor Peter Fleming told that that neither the NHS 111 service or the out-of-hours helpline acted on a temperature change when his parents spoke to them on December 13th, and his death could have been avoided if he was taken into hospital. |
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And another one.
A serious case review found Daniel Pelka, who was 4, was "invisible" at times and "no professional tried sufficiently hard enough" to talk to him. He was starved and beaten for months before he died in March 2012, at his Coventry home. The review said "critical lessons" must be "translated into action". Magdelena Luczak, 27, and Mariusz Krezolek, 34, were told they must serve at least 30 years in jail, after being found guilty of murder at Birmingham Crown Court in July. (I wouldn't put them in prison, I'd shoot the c*nts) The court heard Daniel saw a doctor in hospital for a broken arm, arrived at school with bruises and facial injuries, and was seen scavenging for food. A teaching assistant described him as a "bag of bones" and the trial heard he was "wasting away". At the time of his death the schoolboy weighed just over a stone-and-a-half (10kg). Read more. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-24106823 A disciplinary panel has ruled that a GP who did not act adequately over concerns for starved schoolboy Daniel Pelka, remains fit to practise. |
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I have a vague recollection, Spelling, that the doctor may have been one of your favourite types of people!
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Morris was cleared by the jury on Thursday of murdering Shanay, who had been found with a fatal head injury, a fractured rib and more than 50 cuts and bruises.
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13 Jun 15 23:56 I have a vague recollection, Spelling, that the doctor may have been one of your favourite types of people! He's an Indian. |
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Actually there's only one lesson people in public positions get to know about and that is
'no one is responsible - ever'. That lesson has been well learned. The corollary is 'the system was to blame'...you know.... that system that was not devised or worked by anyone who has a name or a face. |
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Spelling. Yes, I checked after posting last night. I then spent five, very sad minutes looking at the picture of Daniel.
He was a beautiful little boy whose life should have been full of love, giggles and bedtime stories as he enjoyed his childhood. I had tears in my eyes, as I do now, as I tried to comprehend how anybody could deliberately inflict so much evil upon a four-year-old kid. |
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I don't see how any adult can hurt any child.
There was a nutjob on here years ago who never stopped calling me racist. But he openly posted that he smacked his two kids, who were under 5 years of age. That's not a man, or a father, that's a feeble minded c*nt. |