On november nth two men were found guilty at the Old Bailey of killing a 17-month-old boy known to the public only as Baby p. The toddler had a broken back, eight fractured ribs, a missing fingernail and toenail, multiple bruises and an ear almost torn off. What finally killed him on August 3rd 2007 was a blow to the head so severe that the postmortem found a tooth in his stomach.rnThe two men, one the mother's boyfriend, the other a lodger, were found not guilty of murder. They will be sentenced on December 15th for "causing or allowing the death of a child", an offence that was placed on the statute books in 2005 to stop those jointly culpable for a child's death from avoiding punishment by blaming each other. Earlier, the baby's mother had pleaded guilty to the same charge. The maximum sentence is 14 years.
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