Hungarian couple convicted in UK for cruel child abuse

The Hull Daily Mail reports that a Hungarian couple, Orsolya Répási and Tamás Német, were sentenced to 3-3.5 years of jail for physically abusing the woman’s three months old baby.

The couple is from Hungary, as Index writes. Répási is the child’s mother, but Német is not his biological father. The two became a couple when Répási was already pregnant with the boy, but the pregnancy was concealed from the biological father.

The harm done to the baby was discovered when he was taken to a doctor, as the mother noticed that the child had a “limp” left arm. The baby boy suffered several serious injuries, including a spiral fracture in his arm (most likely caused by twisting his arm), a broken 11^th right rib (the child was possibly squeezed so hard by the chest that the ribs almost touched the backbone), a broken left thigh and a broken left shin. The injuries were all deliberately inflicted, as the intensity of the trauma and damage shows.

“On the unchallenged medical evidence, each injury required the separate use of excessive force to inflict it, and each injury would have caused the child immediate and extreme pain, causing him to scream out and be extremely distressed for up to half an hour.”

The 9 days long case proved to be so distressing and so horrible in the details, that a juror even cried upon hearing them.

Both parties denied the accusations, blaming each other, in the hopes of being acquitted. However, as the Hull Daily Mail writes, they were sentenced to jail by Judge David Tremberg on the grounds of having caused traumatic physical harm to an infant, and also on letting such thing happen, as it cannot be said clearly which one of them has committed the crimes.