Three years for man who burned and bit baby

A man jailed for punching, burning and biting his girlfriend’s 10-month-old baby told detectives after he read the mother’s Garda interview, “she [the mother] had better hope I get life in prison for this”.

Larry Connors, aged 20, of Shannon, Co Clare, was arrested after the baby was admitted to hospital in January last year.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Connors pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelty of the baby over a three-week period from Dec 15, 2010.