
Warning: This post details child abuse and may be distressing for some readers.
A man who threw a two-year-old girl against a shower screen, kicked her, whipped and beat her and left her unconscious and “gurgling” for two days and nights in a pram dying has appealed his sentence for her murder over fears of the violence he may experience while in jail.
In 2013 Warren Ross was found guilty of murdering two-year-old Tanilla Warrick-Deaves, the daughter of his partner. He was sentenced to 40 years jail with a non-parole period of 30 years in 2014.
Two-year-old Tanilla Warrick-Deaves. Via Justice for Tanilla Facebook.
Ross abused two-year old Tanilla in the weeks before her death as he tried to toilet train her. He forced her to run laps until she collapsed, whipped her with various implements and hit her.
Evidence showed that Ross would punish Tanilla for “anything”, using electric cords, shoes, a belt and his hand. He would hold her under cold showers and call her an animal. He would throw her across the room and believed that Tanilla, aged just 2, was deliberately defying him.
But Ross, who now serves his time in Sydney’s Silverwater Jail says he shouldn’t serve that length of time on the basis that he faces "onerous jail conditions" reports Fairfax Media.
Tanilla’s mother and Ross’s former partner, Donna Deaves, who received a reduced sentence for testifying against Ross said that before she died she found her daughter being held upside down over the toilet with her partner screaming, “This is the toilet, you’re fucking filthy … and you don’t have any respect!”
She said that her boyfriend then smashed her daughter’s head into the shower screen, kicked her across the room and slapped Deaves across the face.
“I tried to stop it,” Deaves told the court.
“I tried. I couldn’t handle it.”
Tanilla's mum Donna Deaves received a reduced sentence for testifying against Ross.
Deaves and Ross placed the unconscious daughter in her pram and left her for two days and two nights, making ”rattly” and “gurgling” sounds.
One night, whilst watching a movie, Deaves said she noticed her dying daughter had vomited.
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What sort of lawyer would represent this piece of filth ?
He was assaulted 4 times.....big deal.
And to all the "bleeding hearts" that feel sorry for him - what if it were one of your children ? You`d soon change your bloody attitudes you piss poor efforts.
I hope he suffers until he dies - he`s not "rehabitable" at all just scum.....
I don't feel a bit dotty for him. Maybe he will get a shorter life too. He gets what he deserves. Give him the death penalty. Nobody can touch him then. He will be all alone waiting for his death date. But don't set him free. He will fo it again and he doesn't deserve freedom. That poor child didn't deserve what she got either. She suffered mercilessly. He didnt have mercy on her either. It made me cry to read what she went through; the pain and suffering she went through. That little girl was scared too, but he didn't care. why should we care about him and his fears