Cruel parents jailed by judge
THE parents of a six-week-old baby who suffered "deplorable" cruelty at their hands were jailed yesterday.
Alliah Bradshaw – who used to live in Batley Carr – and her partner Rizwan Patel admitted failing to get medical attention when their daughter suffered fractured legs and contracted meningitis.
Patel, 27, also pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm after admitting shaking the baby so hard "in a fit of temper" he broke nine of her ribs and her collar bone.
The baby was left with blindness, deafness, requires surgical intervention and has cerebral palsy.
Patel was given four-and-a-half years in jail at Bradford Crown Court yesterday, while drug addict Bradshaw, 29, was sentenced to three years.
The child, known only as Baby H, for legal reasons, was placed on the Child Protection Register after Bradshaw had two children in her care taken from her for neglect and ill-treatment.
Bradshaw, who had links to Batley Carr, had the children removed by social services before she moved to Todmorden in 2006.
One, a-four-year-old, was removed after being found wandering the streets alone covered in excrement. The child had previously been saved by firefighters after being abandoned in a burning drugs den in Dewsbury.
Sentencing the Hebden Bridge couple yesterday, Judge Jonathan Rose said: "These actions were inexplicable, deplorable and indefensible."
A serious case review is being carried out and is due to be published later this year.
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