Niall Donald

I'll sum up the case.

Back when John Paul was convicted, he described the fact that he had allowed his defenseless son to be subjected to a frightening campaign of physical abuse by his partner and by misrepresenting the boy's catastrophic fatal injuries as having been caused by a fall from a bunk bed, which he described as a shameful betrayal of the child.

And he said...

Just as Paul McDermott said, the defendant bore a very high level of criminal responsibility for failing to nurture and protect his son.

And he highlighted the callousness in how the child was treated by his father and the defendant's absolute disregard for his son's welfare and said it was extremely difficult to understand.

And it is.

Now, you described Tegan McGee as saying the child was bold or, you know, not...

basically doing what he was told, or sorry, you described her saying that.

She said that, yeah.

Now, like, it is, you know, inconceivable that anybody would think that a four-year-old, I mean, four-year-olds just don't

sit quietly and do what they're told.

I mean, it's just absolutely, it's sort of insane for somebody to even believe that they could impose that on a child.

Now, Teagan McGee, you know, even I suppose we heard then from her sister in court that

Tegan McGee, it seems from what her sister said in a social media post, and the sister attended the course and had words with her, but she basically said that they were fooled for a year afterwards, that Tegan McGee had clearly denied everything, insisted the child had had a fall, it was all stitch up or whatever.

She was a victim, which does seem to be going around even in this defense of John Paul, even though he did admit to his offenses as well.

And

make apologies in court.

What did the sister say about Teagan Mickey?

Because, like, you know, she describes killing the child by shaking him and then hitting him.

I mean, it's bewildering, really.