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WhiteTara

(29,718 posts) Thu Mar 10, 2016, 04:15 PM Mar 2016

1 Year in Jail for Dad of Boy, 5, Found Dead in Septic Tank

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/father-virginia-boy-found-dead-septic-tank-convicted-37522651

A Virginia man whose 5-year-old son who was found dead in a septic tank has been sentenced to a year and three months in jail for child abuse and neglect.

Media outlets report that 32-year-old Paul Thomas entered an Alford plea on two counts Wednesday in Pulaski County Circuit Court. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges sufficient evidence for a conviction.

Noah Thomas and his infant sister were left alone while their mother, 31-year-old Ashley White, drove their father to work last March. White says Noah disappeared after she returned home and took a nap. The boy's body was found four days later in a septic tank near his Dublin home.

White was convicted last month of three counts of abuse and neglect. She will be sentenced May 16.

what a tragedy for that little boy.

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1 Year in Jail for Dad of Boy, 5, Found Dead in Septic Tank (Original Post) WhiteTara Mar 2016 OP

This was all over the news near us. phylny Mar 2016 #1

Pretty strange. I can't imagine a kid wanting to WhiteTara Mar 2016 #2

In Ireland they found many hundreds of children's bones in a huge septic tank. Baobab Mar 2016 #3

I hope they were dead before they threw them in WhiteTara Mar 2016 #4

Only 1 year in jail? lindysalsagal Mar 2016 #5

phylny

(8,380 posts)

1. This was all over the news near us.

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 06:37 PM

Mar 2016

What I never understood is how the boy got into that septic tank. From what I recall, the septic tank's lid was on.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)

2. Pretty strange. I can't imagine a kid wanting to

Reply to phylny (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:26 PM

Mar 2016

get a smelly tank.

Baobab

(4,667 posts)

3. In Ireland they found many hundreds of children's bones in a huge septic tank.

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:37 PM

Mar 2016

Shedding some light onto the practice of "baby Farming"..

A forgotten Holocaust for poor, nonmarital children that lasted almost into the modern era in places like Australia.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)

4. I hope they were dead before they threw them in

Reply to Baobab (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:42 PM

Mar 2016

the septic tank. What a terrible legacy of those agencies. I wonder if anyone ever had a nightmare.

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)

5. Only 1 year in jail?

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:48 PM

Mar 2016

I'm sure anti-choice advocates would damand far more than that for an abortion.

Funny, how some people value "life".

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