Crime | June 20, 2009 | 13 comments

24-year-old woman in a fit of supposed rage forced his tiny hands into a pot of boiling water

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At times, Damon Reddom Stone is a haunted four-year-old.

Sitting on his mother’s lap Monday, he ran his hands over her fingertips.

“He said, ‘Mommy, I wish I had normal hands like you,’” recalled Tina Reddom this week.

Every so often, she said, her youngster’s mind drifts back to the morning of Oct. 16, 2007 when a 24-year-old city woman — in a fit of supposed rage — forced his tiny hands into a pot of boiling water in the Applewood Drive apartment she shared with her then-boyfriend, Damon's father.

Damon, who was two at the time, sustained serious burns and will require several surgeries, skin grafts and therapy to treat the wounds.

After pleading guilty to assault causing bodily harm earlier this year, Magan Muir agreed to an 18-month sentence for the crime.

The first half of Muir’s sentence is being spent under house arrest, while during the remaining nine months she will be allowed out into the community under certain conditions.

Like many others in the community, the boy’s mother remains outraged at the sentence, charging her son was shortchanged by the criminal justice system.

Earlier this month, another blow was dealt to the Reddom family — Muir was granted a request to move to St. Catharines to finish serving her sentence while living with family.

“How can she choose where she is going to live? She should be serving her sentence in the community where she committed this crime, I think. And, the last time I checked, an inmate in a prison couldn’t say ‘Hey, I don’t like it here, can I move to another prison’. It doesn’t make sense to me, and quite frankly, pisses me off.

“Damon didn’t get an ounce of justice, not one stitch of justice.”

Reddom said her son, who is the youngest of two, will be dealing with his injuries for years to come — despite the long road he’s already walked during the past 20 months.

After the incident, Reddom took three months off work to ensure Damon received the best care, which included hours of daily physiotherapy and bandage changes.

“It was hell, to say the least, but at least he can use his hands ... and I am very grateful for that. I thank God every single day because Damon could have lost use of his hands because of his burns.”

During his visits to Sick Kids hospital in Toronto, Damon visits with a number of specialists, including psychiatrists and therapists.

The youngster is a trooper: doctors are impressed with his recovery from both the physical and mental trauma of the incident.

“I doubt myself a lot when it comes to helping with Damon’s healing process,” Tina said. “Am I doing the physiotherapy right, or am I changing his bandages properly ... so for him to be doing as well as he’s doing is such good news for us.”

Ensuring her two children are not consumed with bitterness about the family’s situation is a daily struggle.

“I tell you that some of the thoughts and the feelings that I’ve had in the last 20 months would land me behind bars for a very long time. But I look at my boy Damon everyday and he needs me more now than ever ... and what kind of mother would I be if I put myself at her (Muir’s) level? I’m above that — anyone who can do that to a child is scum on the bottom of the river.”

At the same time, Reddom feels as though she is failing her son — an emotion that has sparked an online frenzy through the social networking website Facebook.

“Our kids are our future and if the justice system isn’t going to protect them, who will? As a community and country, we need to stand up and tell our government that change is needed.”

To date, more than 8,200 people are members of her group ‘Where is the justice?’ — an element that Reddom hopes to harness into a special event to raise awareness about abused children and the “failings of the justi
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13 comments // 24-year-old woman in a fit of supposed rage forced his tiny hands into a pot of boiling water

  • echoz
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      echoz  

    • This woman is a symptom of a much deeper chronic insanity. Individualism is a social disease, and we're all infected. It teaches that more honest enjoyable living is having things ideally exclusively the way we selfishly want them. "Have it YOUR way!" (flame-broiled) Remember, that? (or in this case flame-boiled) But isn't it the axiomatic belief these kinds of offenders fall on through that provoked, often (however) aggravated, vision of constantly culturally-preached selfish-entitlement?

      The individualist says with growing murderous intent as denied, I AM and WILL be entitled. Who are you to deny me, or get in my way? No matter "who" happens to be...even an 'innocent' undeserving child. We see government acting inhumanely this way. Perverts. Pedophiles. Sexual deviants. They all want it "their way", and some, even for you to help celebrate their "unnaturalisms" understandingly with them, or, deliberately, yes of course, suffer the most demanding consequences.

      Naked Individualism.

      Join the fun.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • You have that right nursediesel . Also , to other poster , it was the dad's girlfriend that did it , not the mother of the child .

    • 2 years ago
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • This woman needs to be in prision.She should be forced to work to pay for Damon's medical care. Her wages should be attatched. And she should not be able to feign illness not to work.
      Maybe kept in a facility were she is made to get up and work at a sewing factory doing piecemeal labor for Damon's care. And not where she want's where the court put's her. Away from her family.
      This child will be handicapped in some way forever.
      Such a travesty for this child.

    • 2 years ago
  • lj111
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      lj111  

    • as usual-- a heart warming post-i cannot think of anything i would like seen done to the mother except she receive almost nothing for the crime she committed,

    • 2 years ago
  • echoz
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      echoz  

    • you mean, where's the revenge? the opportunity for justice obviously got boiled, and there's nothing any of us can do to take it back. time moves inexorably forward like an arrow, and does anyone ask what we can save in the consequences? Is there anything redeemable about this woman? I'm sure this boy will eventually grow to appreciate life love and beauty, despite this. But this woman? She'll face herself, and perhaps for the crucible of grieving shame, even humiliation, a gratefully unbelievable debt of incredible love instead?

      Love covers over a multitude of sins, I heard somewhere in scriptures. Ah...googling rather...James says, "He who turns a sinner from the error of his ways will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins" Seems reasonable to me, if it were possible, in lieu of mob rule.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • singrrr
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      singrrr  

    • Are you guys kidding me? This woman put a childs hands in boiling water! How can I be surprised?! This is not about abortion or assisted suicide it's about a woman with serious mental problems abusing her child!!!! I am not only surprised I am horrified! No matter what else is going on hurting a child is NEVER ok, just b/c some people make a choice you may not agree with or understand it doesn't lessen the horror of this one event.

    • 2 years ago
  • echoz
  • 2helenahandbasket
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      2helenahandbasket  

    • Wow. I absolutely agree with what you've said, Charlie. We have indeed made life very cheap. How can we be surprised when people fail to have regard for life?

    • 2 years ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • It is indicative of a deeper problem. When the government officially sanctioned the killing of the unborn child in the womb, it profoundly changed the way we think about our fellow human being. Life was cheapened, considered a commodity. This gave rise to Derek Humphreys and Jack Kevorkian, preaching the gospel of euthanasia, with Peter Singer preaching about the benefits of infanticide. Is it any wonder we are hearing more and more of mothers and fathers not only gravely, maliciously injuring their children, but killing them as well? "What you sow, so shall ye reap."

    • 2 years ago
  • echoz
  • singrrr
  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  

    • I can not imagine how is this possible for this woman to have so much hate against this little boy? She is yet another violent woman who will get her out of jail free card. This violent woman will never rehabilitate, and she will be free in 18 months. What was her excuse?

    • 2 years ago
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