Hi I would like to appeal the sentence of Tiffany Hilton who was sentenced on 1/12/15 at Warwick justice centre for allowing harm to a child and child cruelty . I feel as a mother her sentence of 3 years seems a joke when she may only do half the time then go on to have more children. The maximum sentence for this crime is 10 years and I feel it needs to be increased. Prosecutor Andrew Wallace said that in May last year the baby, just two days short of six months old, was referred to University Hospital Coventry with suspected bronchiolitis after Hilton had taken him to a walk-in medical centre. The next day x-rays revealed he had suffered numerous fractures, with eight different sites of injury from his foot to his arms, and including numerous fractures to his ribs. There were healing fractures to the ends of 11 of his right ribs, assessed to have been two to four weeks old, as well as to the arc of the second to 10th ribs, causing what is known as ‘flail chest,’ when there are rib fractures in two sites. There were also healing fractures to the 5th and 6th left ribs which were about three months old. “It’s a campaign of violence to this child, so the longer it goes on, the more the neglect.” But it did not end there, because the little boy had also suffered a spiral fracture, 2-3 weeks old, to his left upper arm and healing fractures of a similar age to both bones in his lower left arm, all consistent with ‘significant force or twisting.’ The baby’s right upper arm also showed signs of a fracture which was ‘not more than six weeks old.’ His catalogue of non-accidental injuries continued with a healed fracture to his right thighbone which the doctors believed was six weeks to three months old, a healed fracture of the left shinbone, and a healed fracture to a big toe. He also had ‘wedging’ of one of his vertebrae, resulting from compression of the spine, which a doctor told the jury was the equivalent of being dropped from a first-floor window, but was likely to have been caused by him being thrown across a room. And a nurse said that while he was in hospital the baby tensed up and went ‘wide-eyed with fear’ whenever there was a loud noise or someone approached him.