Was browsing the net and saw this... why on earth such person is exist... so pure evil... having the heart to drown own flesh and blood..pure cruelty :
A mother who drowned her disabled daughter because she was ashamed of her was branded 'evil' by her devastated husband.
Joanne Hill killed four-year-old Naomi, who had a mild form of cerebral palsy, after failing to persuade her husband Simon to have the girl adopted.
The 32-year-old advertising saleswoman, a depressive alcoholic, claimed her crime was manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, but a jury took less than 90 minutes to decide it was murder.
After she was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 15 years, Naomi's father spoke movingly of their 'cheeky, chatterbox' daughter whom he described as his 'best friend'.
Mr Hill, 38, did not seek to hide his anger and grief as he illustrated the extent of his wife's callousness. 'Joanne is a non-swimmer with a fear of water,' he revealed.
'To be held underwater is her biggest fear. What she did to my princess Naomi was evil.'
Mr Hill, a fleet manager at a car hire firm, stressed that it would be wrong to say Naomi had 'suffered' from cerebral palsy.
'Naomi did not suffer at all. She lived life to the full and was an inspiration to us all,' he said.
She told police she considered killing Naomi that morning, and also entertained suicidal thoughts. She finished work at 5pm and proceeded to follow through her plan.She collected Naomi from the childminder and went back to their house. While Naomi put the TV on, Hill ran a bath and downed a glass of wine.
In police interview tapes, Hill described in an eerily steady voice how she filled the bath almost to the top, poured in pink bubble bath, checked the temperature and then lifted Naomi into the water.
'Then I pushed her down. I held her down by the head. She's lying on her front with her face to the side. I am holding her by the neck, around her neck.
'I am holding her against the bottom of the bath. She did not come up.'
Hill then dressed Naomi in dungarees, a T-shirt and trainers, placed the body in the child seat of her Renault Megane and drove around aimlessly for several hours, drinking wine all the while.
Finally she arrived at the Countess of Chester Hospital at 3.35am. She calmly declared: 'I think my child is dead.'
When a nurse asked Joanne what had happened, she replied with a giggle: 'Nothing, I don't know,' adding: 'You are going to save her, aren't you?'
Later she asked another nurse: 'Could you wave a magic wand to make her better?'
By then, eight hours dead, Naomi was far beyond the reach of any medicine or magic.
Within the hour, Hill was arrested for the murder of her only child.
What on earth could have driven a young mother to this terrible act? It is a question no one, least of all Hill herself, has been able to answer fully.
True, Naomi's mild cerebral palsy caused Hill acute embarrassment: she would dress the girl in trousers for school to hide the splints that helped her to walk; she would not allow her to play in the street, and was reluctant to tell other mothers about the condition.
But was all this really enough to send her over the edge?
The prosecution said Hill's actions were part of a 'deliberate and conscious' decision to kill Naomi because she was disabled.
Later she asked another nurse: 'Could you wave a magic wand to make her better?'
By then, eight hours dead, Naomi was far beyond the reach of any medicine or magic.
Within the hour, Hill was arrested for the murder of her only child.
What on earth could have driven a young mother to this terrible act? It is a question no one, least of all Hill herself, has been able to answer fully.
True, Naomi's mild cerebral palsy caused Hill acute embarrassment: she would dress the girl in trousers for school to hide the splints that helped her to walk; she would not allow her to play in the street, and was reluctant to tell other mothers about the condition.
But was all this really enough to send her over the edge?
The prosecution said Hill's actions were part of a 'deliberate and conscious' decision to kill Naomi because she was disabled.
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