Wickedness-- Court Sentence Man To 15years Impreisonment For Beating 15-Week- Old Child

   

             A man identified as John Dobbie has been jailed for 15 years for shaking a baby so violently that it was left blind and brain damaged. 

             John Dobbie shook the 15-week-old child repeatedly and hit his head against a surface when he was supposed to be looking after him.

              When the defenceless baby was taken to hospital medics described how they thought he was dead. The High Court in Edinburgh was also told that the force used to cause the boy's skull injury was the equivalent to being dropped from an upper window or being thrown from a fast-moving vehicle.

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Haemorrhaging in his eyes proved extreme and violent shaking and there was extensive internal bleeding. As a result of his injuries, the child who is now three will have to have full time care for the rest of his life, according to the Daily Record .
Judge Lord Armstrong said: "It is difficult to see how your actions, short of murdering him, could have constituted a greater breach of trust." He added: "A crime of this type could not be more repugnant to a civilised society." 
During the case, one hospital worker told the court: "I have seen a cot death baby that looked better than that little boy did." Dobbie, 36, was found guilty of attempted murder but acquitted of an earlier attack on the baby.
The court heard that the child now suffers from cerebral palsy affecting his whole body. He has a limited range of movement and will never be independently mobile. Dobbie took the child, who cannot be named, to Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, in June 2011 and receptionist Silvano Costagliola said she thought he was dead. 
So too did staff nurse Jacqueline Keir, but when she moved his hand he was crying like he was in pain. He had to be transferred to a specialist paediatric unit where consultant John Morrice said: "For an individual like this who looked so sick I would expect everyone to be available to help out." 
"He was not behaving like a normal infant at this point. He was very irritable at times and at other times quite unresponsive," he said 
The doctor noted bruising on the child's torso and small, pin prick bruises on other areas such as the top of the head. He said the priority was to keep the baby alive, to resuscitate and stabilise him. He told the court: "He had life-threatening injuries." 
The child was transferred to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh where a CT scan was carried out. He was later taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in Glasgow to enable him to undergo neurosurgery. 
He later went back to a Fife hospital but was returned to a specialist children's hospital because of continuing problems with seizures. 
Detective Constable Kim Stuart said Dingwall-born Dobbie had told him that he had earlier fed the baby and changed his nappy and did not notice any marks on his body. 
Jobless Dobbie said he had needed to go to the toilet and put the child in an upright position but when he returned found he had slipped onto his side and his head was resting on a plastic phone toy. 
Dobbie said the child was crying and he picked him up and noticed a red mark. He said he was rocking the child. 
He noticed the baby's eyes were rolling back. He took the baby to its mother and she told him to phone a taxi and take him to hospital. 
But jurors heard that expert evidence pointed to the baby suffering violent shaking and direct impact to his head. 
Defence solicitor advocate Gordon Martin said Dobbie had no record of violence. He said the offence appeared to involve "a single loss of control" after he snapped.