Mother and father beat and burned their 10-month-old son to death

With unprecedented violence, a father and a mother beat and burned their son to death. Now the court verdict: they were found guilty of killing their children on Christmas Day in a murder described as “wild and brutal”. Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22, burned and beat their children in “repeated acts of violence.”

“Scary” wounds: broken bones and burns

Prosecutors said 10-month-old Finley Boden suffered a series of “terrible” injuries, including 71 body bruises and 57 fractures, most of which occurred in the short period before his fatal collapse. The court heard that Finley’s pelvis was broken in two places, possibly as a result of “kicking or hitting”.

The boy also suffered two burns to his left hand: one from a “hot, flat surface” and the other, possibly from a “lighter flame.” Finley died as a result of these attacks in a house described as “dirty and untidy” in Holland Road, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Paramedics were put on alert at 2.33am on Christmas Day and Finley was transported to the hospital but was pronounced dead at 3.45am. The boy died in the Covid lockdown of winter 2020, just 39 days after he was returned to his family’s care.

Suspension and court order

In fact, social services had taken her shortly after her birth due to concerns about her two parents. However, a court order returned Finley to the couple eight weeks later, despite social workers requesting a longer transition of six months.

Witnesses say they heard Boden Finley tell his hospital friend Marsden, just hours after his son’s death, that he plans to sell his son’s stroller on eBay. Later, Boden would claim that he said this to the police simply to “lighten the mood”.

Deputy Attorney General Andrew Baxter said: “The violence these two people committed and their willful neglect to cover their wounds are incomprehensible because it was their parents who were protecting her from harm, not the cause of the harm. These are. The defendants tried to put their child back into their care and then treated him in this horrific way “

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