A father who killed his seven week old son was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Brian Penn was convicted following a trial for inflicting blunt trauma to Kaleb Penn’s head and body and compressing his body in 2017.
The baby was seriously injured in the attack on a property in Ayr, Scotland, that he died two days later at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.
The 30-year-old was also convicted of assaulting his son causing serious injuries and endangering his life on several occasions between October 13 and October 31 of the same year.
The former soldier had filed a defense of incrimination, blaming the child’s mother for Kaleb’s death.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison when he appeared before the High Court in Glasgow on Wednesday, via video link from prison.
During Penn’s sentencing, Lord Weir said: “The nature of these offenses and the circumstances in which they were inflicted on a vulnerable baby now lost forever to her extended family fully justify a significant sentence.”
He said Kaleb had received “the very antithesis” of expected care and that “his life was cut short to seven weeks.”
Brian McConnachie QC, representing Penn, said he was a first-time offender who had so far lived his life as a useful member of society, served in the military and had a “good work ethic and was trying to provide for the needs of his family “.
He said the reasons for what happened will never be known.
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Source: news.sky.com
This notice was published: 2021-06-16 12:29:00
