Oxygen Thief

A Perth court has been told a man who seriously injured a 14-month-old girl when he put her in a clothes dryer and turned it on was only trying to give her "a fun time".

21-year-old Samuel Marc Barnes Siddall today pleaded guilty in the Joondalup Magistrates Court to causing grievous bodily harm after he put his girlfriend's daughter, Mia Jade Jeffrey, in the dryer for about two minutes on May 25.

Mia's mother, Marnie Jowett, who had left the toddler in Siddall's care while she visited a gym, returned home to find the toddler shaking with pain from burns to her hands, feet and back, and bruises to her face and spine.

Siddall, who at the time of the incident was studying at university to become a teacher, had told Ms Jowett he had no idea how the girl was injured, before taking them both to hospital.

He subsequently admitted during a police interview that he had put the toddler in a dryer "just for fun," and said he thought she would enjoy it because she liked "being whizzed around"....

They say that the high school record required to study teaching at university is now so low that the teachers of tomorrow will be the people who barely scraped through high school themselves. If this fucking halfwit is indicative of the current crop, I'm inclined to believe it. This means the people teaching your kids may very well be the same fuckers who mooned you during your poetry recital.

Original story from The Australian