Drama as Woman Who Lost Baby 5 Days Before Due Date Slams Prosecutors
A 19-year-old woman who lost her baby daughter after being kicked in the stomach five days from her due date has slammed prosecutors for refusing to see her unborn child as human.
This comes after the court failed to press murder or child destruction charges against her drunk partner.
Five days before her due date, Mirror gathered that Jessy Johnson, collapsed to the floor in pain as her boyfriend Stuart Samson, 37, whispered in her ear not to call an ambulance to avoid social services getting involved.
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Samson, the baby’s father, was known to social services following previous violent behaviour but the teenager believed things would get better.
However, on April 16 last year, Jessy lost her daughter when a drunk Samson attacked her in a bar. Samson was jailed this week for two years and nine months after pleading guilty to two offences of assault causing actual bodily harm.
”I’m so angry about his sentence. No sentence will bring back my baby. He only pleaded guilty to get a lesser sentence and he showed no remorse at court from what I saw.
What really annoys me is that they didn’t charge him with murder or child destruction.The prosecution told me because the baby had not been born they didn’t see her as being human – even though she was full-term,” Jessy from Pontefract, said.”I’m so angry about his sentence. No sentence will bring back my baby. He only pleaded guilty to get a lesser sentence and he showed no remorse at court from what I saw,” she added.
The grief-stricken young mum kept the death of her daughter ‘Mila Francis’ a secret from her family for days after finding out the devastating news.
”I didn’t tell anybody except my best friend that Mila had died. I had everyone coming up and saying, “not long now” and I had to go along with it. It was horrible.”
Samson pleaded guilty to two offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Leeds Crown Court and was jailed for two years and nine months yesterday.
Jessy had been warned by social services not long after falling pregnant that she should stay away from her violent partner but the pair stayed together through her pregnancy.
Prosecuting, Peter Moulson said Samson’s kick had caused heavily pregnant Jessy to suffer injuries which caused the unborn child to suffer from a lack of oxygen.
”In my judgement, it was utterly foreseeable that the deliberate blow with your foot to the lower part of her body would cause harm to her unborn baby. I bear in mind that I am dealing with you for a kick to the stomach of a pregnant woman.You are not charged with any offence relating to the death of the unborn baby.
However, the fact that the unborn baby, nearly at the end of its term, did die is an aggravating feature.
You accept that the kick did cause the death of the baby and that is in line with the medical evidence,” Judge Guy Kearl, said.
”I just wish I had listened to them and stayed away. I feel like this is my fault because I should never have got back with him after the other times. They were right.”
Describing her violent boyfriend’s reaction to the incident which led to Mila’s death, Jessy said:
”I asked for an ambulance but Stuart told me social services would get involved and they would take the baby off of us.
”They had already warned me to stay away from him and I was scared they would find out I was still with him.”
The pair met when Jessy was just 16, through family members and they started dating.
For the first few months things were fine but she soon realised he was a different person when drunk and his binge drinking would go on for weeks at a time.
Things got better for the couple when they moved away from bad influences but the drinking soon started again which resulted into the unfortunate incident.
Photo credit: SWNS.com
Awwwww so sad.
hmm