Woman gets 12 years, rebuke in son's death

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pavlis05.html

Schaumburg woman convicted in the beating death of her 6-year-old adopted son apologized for her actions, but that didn't spare Irma Pavlis from a 12-year prison term -- or a scathing rebuke from the Cook County judge who imposed the sentence.

Judge Thomas Fecarotta ripped Pavlis, saying Wednesday she is trying to evade responsibility for the December 2003 death of Alex Pavlis, a Russian child adopted six weeks earlier by Pavlis and her husband. A jury in April acquitted Irma Pavlis of first-degree murder charges but convicted her of a lesser count of involuntary manslaughter. snip

But Fecarotta said any behavioral problems the child exhibited didn't explain or justify the punches, slaps and shoves Pavlis said she used to try to discipline the boy, who died of severe brain injuries. snip

During her trial, Pavlis testified that within two weeks of bringing Alex here from Russia, she began slapping and spanking him as punishment for his unruly behavior, which included banging his head on walls or floors and sometimes urinating or defecating on himself.

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1. Like George Carlin, I find myself rooting for the asteroid more and more

Come on, just one direct hit on this cosmic nuthouse...

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2. Twelve years is not enough.

That's all I can say about this sickening story.

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3. That's terrible..I'm really troubled by the extent of violence to kids..

I don't have a problem with when necessary giving a swat in the behind for a child acting up..so long as not done to excess or injury..I had this done when I was little and even did it 'once' to my own child when she was young and didn't do as I said..I could NEVER have hurt her or anyone else..I don't understand how anyone could even inadvertantly hurt a child, animal, or anyone else? Why have people been doing such horrid things? I'm not a saint but no devil either..