18 Months . . . . .

[Canary42]

. . . . should have got life.

 

A child's life is precious.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51n93121nko     

 

[barry1010]

It's impossible to comment sensibly on this due to the lack of information in the media. 

We don't know how old the child is.  When my nephew was naughty his mother would send him to his bedroom, not lock him in.  He climbed out of the window and shinned down the drainpipe a few times. He could have fallen.

We don't know how badly the child was injured although as the person who found him didn't take him to hospital or call an ambulance we have to guess not badly.  A head injury can be very minor. 

We don't know how the neighbour knew which door to knock on, which suggests to me that the boy is indeed their child unless he is old enough to say where he fell from.

I would guess that the child was older than a toddler, that he fell from a downstairs window and the injury was very slight.

The starting point for sentencing for child neglect is a short community order.  The maximum sentence is 12 years imprisonment.