This happened in Britain, where some very unfit parents caused the death of their fourteen week old baby after inflicting violence on her that resulted in forty broken bones.
They got miniscule penalties and the mealy mouthed terminology used by those in charge of child welfare to justify how it happened is truly sickening.
I've seen much harsher sentences handed out to perpetrators of animal cruelty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wale ... 159038.stm

Sometimes I think a good old fashioned lynching of these cruel types would be more appropriate.

From the article it appears the child died in 2003 but charges were not pressed until this year. Without further details it's hard not to conclude that there were multiple system failures here.