MOTHER FROM HELL

Why did the judge only give her 15 years when he called her ‘the mother from hell’ and described her as 'sadistic and merciless'?

Another example of why humans are the most cruel of all animals.
　
MOTHER PLUNGED BOY, THREE, INTO BOILING WATER LEAVING HIM WITH SUCH BAD BURNS HE HAD TO HAVE ALL 10 TOES AMPUTATED
　
Mail Online
November 17, 2010
　
A 'mother from hell' has been jailed for 15 years after plunging her three-year-old son into boiling water because he soiled his nappy.
　
Former care worker Regina Cooper, 31, from New York, held the child in a bath and watched as his skin 'fell off'.

Barkim Owens had to have all 10 toes amputated and suffered severe burns that spread to 20 per cent of his body.
　
He spent six weeks in a coma after the attack and has had to learn how to walk again.
　
Doctors had to remove a rib and place it in his throat to open up his airway.
　
Queens Supreme Court, in New York, heard that Barkim 'just wanted to be loved' and screamed 'it hurts, it hurts' as he was held in the water for several minutes, the New York Daily News reported.
　
Cooper pleaded guilty to assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
　
Justice Richard Buchter, sentencing, described Cooper as 'sadistic and merciless', the newspaper said.
　
He said: 'Regina Cooper, unfortunately, is the mother from hell.
　
'The defendant is sadistic and merciless.'
　
Pam Jordan, Cooper's lawyer, said her client had been abused throughout her life.
　
At yesterday's sentencing hearing, Cooper told the judge that 'everybody hates me' and that she 'did not mean for this to happen', the newspaper reported.
　
Prosecutors said Cooper carried out the horrific attack after becoming angry that her son had soiled his nappy as they returned to their apartment on January 25.
　
Barkim has now been reunited with his father, 46-year-old Ronnie Owens, and his two sisters.
　
Mr Owens told the New York Daily News that Cooper had stopped him from seeing his children for two years.
　
He now hopes to gain custody of all three children before Christmas.
　
Barkim still suffers from nightmares and refuses to get into a bath.