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Father bit and punched two-month-old baby to death (Metro News)

This is absolutely shocking. British newspaper Metro News reports that 23-year old Lithuanian Aurimas Medvedevas killed his two-month old baby daughter the day her mother went back to work for the very first time since giving birth.

The man's 22-year old partner Dzesika Urbikaite came home from her first day back at work to find the nine week old baby dead in her cot. Mr. Medvedevas was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison.
Jailing him today, judge Timothy Pontius said the brutality of the attack on a defenceless baby almost defied belief. He said the fact that baby Aukse suffered considerably for hours before her eventual death ‘demonstrated a callousness that is as incredible as it is inhuman’. 
Prosecutor Karim Khalil QC told jurors: ‘For reasons known only to him, he took hold of his own baby, he bit her on the head, he struck her repeatedly and he shook her hard. As a result of all that she died, not immediately, but a few hours later.’ 
The nine-week-old survived for up to six hours after the attack and would have suffered considerably while her father did nothing to help her, the court heard. 
A post-mortem examination uncovered a catalogue of bruises, cuts and abrasions on her body as well as two distinct bite marks on her head. An examination of one of the bite marks showed it matched the defendant’s teeth imprint, the court heard. 
Source: Father bit and punched two-month-old baby to death | Metro News UK
According to the lawyer for the defence, the father was a 'loving and caring  man who showed 'heartfelt' remorse for what he had done to his own daughter after she died in his arms. And the thought to call social services or hand himself in to the police didn't enter this 'loving and caring' man's mind while his baby daughter slowly died from what he'd done to her?

Here I am worrying about fundamentalist death-worshipping 'Islamic State' lunatics when all this time I should have been worrying about rabid Lithuanian immigrants to the UK? I thought IS killing, raping, crucifying and enslaving people was shocking and inhuman, however this man deserves his very own category in the "Who's Who" list of most disturbed people alive. How can any human being do this to a defenceless baby? HOW? Why?

A father who brutally attacks, tortures and murders his OWN child of only two months, that is something that I simply do not understand. What possesses someone to attack their own child in such an inhuman way? What possesses someone to bite and bruise and cut and shake an innocent child of only nine weeks old? What possesses someone to kill the child of the woman he's supposed to love, cherish, take care of and look after, destroying the woman's life in the process?

Months and months of bonding with your baby while she's in your tummy, from finding out you're pregnant to feeling the baby's first kick to going for so-many-week scans and echoes. You buy baby clothes and a cot and a car seat. Then come the hours of labour and finally there she is, the reward for your pain and suffering; your baby girl, alive and well. You've waited so long for this moment, waited so long to be able to hold your beautiful baby girl in your arms. You love her, cherish her, feed and bathe and clothe her. You sit there looking at her sleeping, smiling despite how tired and worn out you are, feeling your heart overflow with love for the tiny human being you put into this world. And then, when your maternity leave is over and you go back to work, you leave home knowing that your partner will be home, that he will look after the precious bundle of joy he loves as much as you do. And then this happens. You come home to find out the man you love killed your child. Your world falls apart. Where do you turn to for support? Who can you trust after this? How do you go on, knowing your precious baby girl was left alone to die, hurting and in pain?

I am not a perfect person by any means. I try to respect everyone and everything, try not to judge others based on what I think is normal and accepted. Try to keep an open mind and work on bettering myself instead of badmouthing others or gossiping. I may not always succeed, however I try. Usually. Today, I am too disgusted and shocked by this young man's actions to want to try. I thank God that this poor baby 'only' suffered a maximum of six hours before she died and ask God to look after little Aukse's mother who should have had a lifetime to spend with her daughter and only got nine weeks.

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