This is in response to a Sun Journal story (May 8) involving Allen-Michael St. Claire, who admitted to having struck his infant son’s head into a door frame in the family’s home, causing a magnitude of physical harm to the child.

The mother was asleep in the next room, no doubt trying to get some rest, given the fact the baby was said to have been sick with pneumonia. The mom is most likely the primary caregiver, as most moms are even when a child isn’t sick. She probably was over-tired from caring for a sick child and having another child to care for as well.

As if the act of a parent brutally bringing intentional harm to one’s own child isn’t happening all too much in our society, it is apparently being condoned now.

Before St. Claire begins his sentence to prison time, have the perpetrator supported in his act of inhumanity by having a going-away party thrown for him, cake and all, by what I can only consider nothing dissimilar than a posse of supporters of child abusers.

Where, pray tell, are these people deriving their compassion?

What of the child, left with what could possibly be life-long physical effects and the emotional damage he could suffer if he is ever to understand what his own father did to him?

Cathy Pagon, Auburn