Good.

"Mother" is not a description of this animal.

she needs to be locked up for the rest of her life since she allowed her daughter's life to be destroyed.

I am sooooo disgusted I want to cry. They both need longer sentencing or have the same thing be done to them as what he did to that innocent little girl. How unfair for them to treat the child like that. Now she is handicapped. Unreal! So unfair to her so unfair. If they didn't want her give her up! There's plenty of help. There's parents who can't have kids and yet this continues to happen. I think sadly before a baby leaves a hospital they need to start background checks or something on the parents first.

Eight and fifteen years. Pathetic. How about a life sentence?

Anyone that hurts a child should forfeit their life. Hope he and she get's theirs in prison, the pigs.

I agree with all of the above. What is wrong with our judicial system here. Clearly it was an open and shut case. The jerk boyfriend is clearly a psychopath and should be committed and never let out in society again, and the mother because I don't see the whole story I don't care if he threatened her with a lead pipe as big as she is she probably could've took him and bashed him one I would've. Unless he had a gun she could've ran to the nearest phone even dialed 911 while screaming for help. Me I would've bashed his head in if he tried to touch my child the first time. WHAT A SICK SICK SITUATION! That poor child I hope she's with a much more loving family, Poor baby I want to cry too. OMG GOD WILL TRULY RECKON WITH THEM AND I hope they're ready for very warm climate./

They both should get life. This little girl lost a shot at an average life and so should they. This is a slap on the wrist.

any child that is harmed in ANY WAY SHOULD CARRY LIFE SENTANCE. im appalled at the the small price of 8 yrs in prison for harming this child. and they plead guilty due to insanity that should speak volumes. insane needs life to protect other people from harm.

I just cant imagine how a mother could just stand there and watch,,my natural instinct would be to attack the man and possibly kill him to protect my child,,obviously the man is a coward to beat a baby, i know i could easily take him.....

Yeah whatever lady. You're fulla ****. No doubt in my mind if I had come upon or seen this occurring I would be heading to prison and these crap stains masquerading as humans would be on the way to the morgue. I don't give a **** WHO the child belongs to.

I can not wrap my mind around someone witnessing something like this and NOT flying into a murderous rage. I'm generally peace loving but some things are intolerable on every level and will short circuit my better judgement. Jail or leave monsters like this to roam about or breed again? Jail. No doubt.

I don't know why they don't do this more often. I always hear stories of a "boyfriend" beating a woman's child, and this is the first time I have ever seen the mother forced to take responsibility for letting her child be harmed. Hope it's not the last!

Ugly hog. She probably didn't want the child anyway since it was likely a product of drunken lust. That is the bottom line problem with these situations in my opinion. People can have babies without any paternal plan for their child's future and the scacrifices that a parent must make to nurture a young human. So when the time comes when the unfit parent decides to pursue their own self gartification again by whaterever means, the child is simply in the way and is treated a piece of unwanted garbage. Makes me want to puke.

This poor defenceless child is serving life sentence as a result of her treatment at the hands of these animals, her pathetic excuse for a mother and her boyfriend should be given life sentences also!

As a parent I would kill anyone that would become such threat to the health and well being of my children. We are the only protection which our babies have, for by the time CPS gets involved, the damage has already been done. Besides any person who would so harm a child is a monster, and needs to be removed from the face of the earth.

Why didnlt she get in the way of his fists, I would have I would have picked up anything I couild find that was heavey and battered him with it-- by the time I was finshed with him he would have been singing soprano

I hope this fat pig (though I guess that would be an insult to pigs) has the opportunity to read every one of these comments, and I hope further that everyone remembers her when she gets out (probably in a few years for "good behavior") and she is an outcast from society for the rest of her sorry-ass life. If anyone ever laid a hand on either of my children, he'd be 6 feet under. Cooper's15-year sentence, too, was too short -- even though the little girl didn't die, he took her life and should be in prison for the rest of his life. Anyone who beats a child to that extent will never be rehabilitated -- his behavior is ingrained, part of his DNA, and he should never be allowed to be free among us.

This bitch (and that's an insult to female dogs) obviously should have given up her child at birth; she's unfit to be a mother or for that fact, a member of civilized society. As noted in the story, she was completely focused on her own circumstances, showing no remorse whatsoever for her daughters permanent debilitation.

Why Koch got off with eight years is beyond my comprehension. Sheldon (the "judge") failed in his responsibilities to mete out the greater punishment Koch deserved; and justice failed to be served.

Here's an interesting story about the "judge" in the Koch case, who saw fit to sentence her to a short 8 years in prison for letting her boyfriend beat the life out of her daughter. In the case referenced below, he sentenced someone to 30 DAYS for a drunk driving accident that KILLED a 17-year-old. When Sheldon delivered the sentence, the father of the victim shouted out, "How much did they pay you this time?" and sheldon responded by citing the father in contempt of court and hauling HIM off to jail. A witness in the courtroom told WBBM that he has never seen anything like it — especially a tirade by a judge directed toward the parents of a teenager who died in a DUI crash.

Wake up, voters, and start making more informed decisions of whom you elect to properly interpret the law. Koch, Cooper, drunk drivers, elder abusers, thieves, rapists -- all are, or will be, living among us freely thanks to judges who, for whatever reason, can't or won't lock up these animals to protect the rest of us.

(Credit: CBS)
A Kane County judge Thursday met an outburst in his courtroom with a contempt citation — and an outburst of his own.

Someone who was in Judge Timothy Sheldon’s courtroom Thursday told WBBM Newsradio that he has never seen anything like it — especially a tirade by a judge directed toward the parents of a teenager who died in a DUI crash.

U gave these child abusers tht small amount of time but u will giv a person tht is selling mary jane 40 years smh really no I dont agree with selling any type of drugs but I dont get how u cn giv a person tht took away this child's chance to hav a normal life only a slap on the hand but the weed dealer u kick him under the jail smh

Hard to believe but a lot of what dictates prison terms is the sorry state of the Illinois budget. There is just not enough money to incarcerate everyone who deserves it, certainly for great lengths of time, and that's probably a lot of why degenerates like Koch and Cooper get off with relatively light sentences. That's why I'm a staunch believer in capital punishment in cases of absolute, undeniable guilt.

Ummm...Police? If you want someone to kill this b*tch...I'll do it, as long as you promise to drop the charges...but seriously, this is just sick! I'm disgusted both by her fugly face and ANYBODY who would abuse a child like that... seriously want to vomit. wtf!?