Couple convicted of child cruelty after assault on boy

A northbound Antrim mates person been convicted implicit an battle which near a young lad unsighted and with encephalon damage.

Amanda and Christopher Fulton, who are some 35 and from Rockfield Gardens successful Mosside adjacent Ballymoney successful County Antrim appeared astatine Newry Crown Court connected Wednesday.

A assemblage recovered Chris Fulton blameworthy of inflicting grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent and 2 charges of kid cruelty by wilfully neglecting the young victim.

Amanda Fulton was acquitted of GBH with intent and 1 complaint of kid cruelty, but unanimously convicted of causing oregon allowing the kid to endure important carnal harm and a further complaint of kid cruelty successful narration to wilful neglect.

Judge Peter Irvine KC told the assemblage the proceedings had been "very harrowing, I person nary doubt, for everyone acrophobic having to perceive the grounds successful this case".

The assemblage heard however the kid was unresponsive connected 7 November 2019.

When the lad was seen by a GP aboriginal that day, it was evident to him that “he was a precise sick chid".

Initially helium was taken by ambulance to the Causeway Hospital wherever a scan uncovered a important caput wounded and helium was taken to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children wherever the grade of his injuries became clear.

These included a fractured skull with associated bleeding to the encephalon and retinal bleeding; 27 rib fractures; fractures to some thigh bones; fractures to some shin bones; fractured wrist and a lacerated liver.

The assemblage heard grounds from galore aesculapian adept witnesses describing the injuries suffered by the kid arsenic “severe and significant” and said they were truthful superior that helium would person died without aesculapian intervention.

Bail was refused successful some cases.

They volition beryllium sentenced successful December.