Sentenced: Baby Burning Babysitter Says “I Would Do It The Same Way Again”

[Sugar Cookie]

This is a very old case but I came across her mug while looking up a baby killer babysitter and had to see the story behind the mug.

A babysitter in Bracken County, Kentucky has been charged with abusing a child placed in her care.

Police say that the woman put the boy in a tub with water so hot, it caused severe burns to his legs.

The incident happened back in June and three year old Kaden Benedict is still recovering from his burns and Kaden's family is still trying to figure out why someone they trusted and knew for years would want to hurt their son.

Kaden was placed in the care of a family friend, Angela Smithers, who had babysat Kaden and his siblings for more than a year. But on June 5th, Smithers called and told Kaden's father that it seemed that he was suffering from sun poisoning.

"She said she had an accident," said Kaden's mother Mary Hargett. "She went to give him a bath and when she did she noticed blisters on his legs."

Mary said she knew after checking on Kaden that it wasn't sun poisoning.

"He was wrapped up in a towel and shivering and he wouldn't tell me nothing," Mary continued. "He just wanted to cry."

Kaden's parents took him to Shriner's Hospital and the doctors there confirmed what the Benedicts already knew, that Kaden's second and third degree burns on the lower half of his body were from scalding hot water.

While in the hospital, Kaden finally told his family what happened to him on that day.

His family said that Kaden tried to plea with Smithers that the water was too hot but she apparently didn't stop.

At the end of September, a grand jury indicted Smithers on charges of Criminal Abuse in the first degree on a child under the age of 12.

Babysitter Accused Of Burning Child In Scalding Water

A Bracken County family doesn't know why a family friend who was babysitting their three-year-old son would burn him in a tub of hot water.

www.fox19.com

On Dec. 22, 2008, Angela Smithers of Bracken County, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on a conviction for first-degree criminal abuse of a child and for second-degree persistent felony offender charges.

While family members of the victim believed Smithers would have to serve at least 85 percent of her sentence before being allowed parole, the intricacies of sentencing and time served calendars shortened the time to just under six years.

According to the inmate release notification system, Smithers is reportedly being freed from prison on Oct. 31, 2014

During her trial, it was determined Smithers caused severe scalding injures to the lower body of a toddler in her care, because the child had soiled themself.

To the day she went to prison, Smithers denied the accusation, even telling Judge Lewis Nicholls during her sentencing proceedings, “I would do it the same way again.”

During her sentencing proceedings in 2008, Smithers replied to questions about her actions when the child was injured with denial of culpability, stating the child’s family was not telling the truth. She denied hurting the child in the way the family portrayed and claimed she had her hands in the same water and had not been injured when the child was bathed after soiling itself.

Angela Smithers scheduled for release from prison | Ledger Independent – Maysville Online

BROOKSVILLE | On Dec. 22, 2008, Angela Smithers of Bracken County, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on a conviction for first-degree criminal abuse of a child and for second-degree persistent…

maysville-online.com

 

[JackBurton]

Huh? How does telling the judge, "I would do it again" equate to a denial of the accusation?

 

[BuffettGirl]

Huh? How does telling the judge, "I would do it again" equate to a denial of the accusation?

Next paragraph states she a answered questions with a denial of culpability during her sentencing.

 

[Inferus]

Whatcha say we play a game...

Best two out of three?

 

[JackBurton]

^^^
Please dont post references or gifs of The Mick, it's far too depressing to be reminded that that gutbustingly hilarious show was premature canceled by trash Fox.

Fucking amazing.

Best thing any Always Sunny castmember has done outside the show.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

12 years is good.