Mom gets 20 years for abusing her 18-month-old children
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Samantha Woods (Jackson County Sheriff”s Office).

An Alabama woman will spend just one year behind bars after receiving steep punishments for child abuse late last month.

Samantha Woods, aged 23, faced conviction on May 29 for two charges involving the deliberate mistreatment of a child. On June 25, the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office reported that she received a pair of 10-year sentences to be served one after the other. However, the majority of her term will be spent under house arrest.

The defendant only made her way onto law enforcement’s radar after a domestic incident led to an investigation, authorities said.

Authorities later discovered that two 18-month-old children in a Scottsboro residence—approximately 40 miles east of Huntsville—had suffered abuse severe enough to require medical care.

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While details of the precise torment the victims went through are scarce, attention has focused on their exceedingly young ages.

The prosecution rubbished such talk in comments to the Jackson County Sentinel following Woods’ conviction.

“The age of the children is often considered a positive aspect, as if it’s preferable to abuse younger children with the notion that ‘maybe they won’t remember,” explained Jackson County Assistant District Attorney Krystina Jackson to the publication. “In reality, we have no idea about the extent of harm inflicted. From now on, it’s uncertain… when those children are put to bed at night, whether they can truly feel secure and loved or if they’ll always recall being left neglected, in distress, and alone.”

While the underlying domestic dispute was between Woods and her partner, it was a neighbor who called police that fateful day.

In court, Jackson County Circuit Judge Brent Benson made hay of that turn of events.

“Thank God for nosey neighbors,” the judge reportedly said. “I am convinced that if it had not been for those neighbors that heard your domestic [incident] and called the police, I don’t know what would have happened to your children. I am convinced your children wouldn’t have gotten help…I don’t know what 18-month-old children remember but maybe one day, they’ll remember that a nosey neighbor may have saved their lives.”

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