Sarah Rebekah Woodcock-Haddock

The toddler died in March 2005 from a brain haemorrhage resulting from a 4 centimetre skull fracture, but a post-mortem found she had suffered other substantial injuries in the days before her death, including eight rib fractures and a haemorrhage in her left chest wall, most likely caused by an adult leaning on her chest with a knee. Joshua Chris Woodcock was sentenced to 12 years for the manslaughter of his daughter and her mother Jaymie Ellen Natasha Haddock was sentenced to 2 ½ years for wilfully neglecting her child. Source: 4theKids

Tensions boiled over outside the High Court in Rotorua yesterday after a father convicted of killing his baby daughter was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Joshua Woodcock, 25, was found guilty by a jury in September of the manslaughter of his three-month-old daughter Sarah Haddock-Woodcock. He was also found guilty of three counts of assault on a child, grievous bodily harm and wilful neglect of a child, but not guilty of murder. Sarah, who lived with her parents in Putaruru, died from a four-centimetre skull fracture on or about March 12, 2005. Her skin had been ripped from its tissue by "shear force". In sentencing Woodcock, Justice Wylie said that to kill your own child was the "ultimate abuse of trust". "You failed her in the most serious way possible," he said to a blank-faced Woodcock. The case was a "horrid tale of abuse". "Sarah was just three months old and was helpless and utterly defenceless from your attacks." She would have been in considerable pain and discomfort in the days leading up to her death, yet never received medical care. Sarah's mother, and Woodcock's former partner, Jaymie Haddock would not talk to the Times after the sentencing. Haddock was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison in 2007 for wilfully neglecting her child. She has two other children, one a boy which is also Woodcock's. Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3017345/No-sentence-enough-for-kill...