Man dipped infant’s foot in scalding hot water because she was crying, caused second-degree burns
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA (WPMT) — An 18-year-old Maryland man is facing charges after police say he dipped an infant’s foot into scalding hot water because the girl was crying.
North Middleton Township Police say Jordan Gabriel Brown, of Aberdeen, caused the infant to suffer second-degree burns to her left foot. He is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, and endangering the welfare of children.
Brown is in a relationship with the child’s mother.
The incident happened on Feb. 13, police say.
The investigation began after police were alerted to the child’s injury by staff at the Lehigh Valley Hospital Burn Center, where the child was transported for treatment. Brown and the child’s mother initially took the child to UPMC Pinnacle Hospital in Carlisle at 10:27 p.m., police say.
According to police, the child had to be sedated due to the injury, which was diagnosed as a second-degree burn. Brown and the child’s mother told doctors the child had not been burned by hot water or grease, and that they believed the child was having an allergic reaction to a sock.
The child was transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital on Feb. 14. Once there, Brown allegedly told staffers the blistering and redness could have been caused by hot water. He said he had taken the child, who was fussy, into the kitchen to prepare a bottle of milk. At the time, he said, the right side of the sink was filled with a bag of frozen meat that was thawing in hot water. Brown said as he reached for the child’s bottle, the child’s leg must have dipped into the water, causing it to suffer a burn.
Brown was interviewed by police on Feb. 15, and said the burn was caused by his recklessness. He did not want to admit he had placed the child’s foot in the water, police say.
Police say Brown attempted to cover the child’s burn by placing a sock on its foot. The baby’s mother only noticed the burn when she removed the sock, after noticing the child was not acting normal and crying louder than usual, police say.
Brown only told medical staff what he thought happened after staff told him the injury could only be caused by a burn, police say. He “attempted to conceal his reckless act,” police say in the complaint.
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Newborn baby dies after being found near trash outside Bronx apartment; teen being questioned by police
MOTT HAVEN, the Bronx — A newborn baby boy is dead after being found near the trash in the Bronx Thursday evening and a 14-year-old girl is being questioned, police said.
Officers responded to a building along East 138th Street and Brook Avenue in Mott Haven around 6:30 p.m. after a resident found the baby near the trash in the rear of the apartment and called authorities.
When they arrived, officers discovered a newborn baby boy unconscious and unresponsive. Police said a faint pulse was detected by first responders.
The baby, whose exact age is not known, was found without clothes and his umbilical cord was located nearby, according to sources. It appears the baby was thrown from a window and landed near the trash.
He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
According to sources, detectives located a 14-year-old girl in a nearby apartment with symptoms of just giving birth. She was taken to Lincoln Hospital and is being questioned by police.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/05/03/newborn-baby-boy-found-dead-in-the-bronx/
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Mother charged with murder after 5-day-old baby found stabbed to death at NJ home
LITTLE FERRY, N.J. — A woman has been charged with murder after police say she stabbed her baby to death in New Jersey Thursday night.
Bergen County prosecutors say 29-year-old Hiralbahen Bhavsar called 911 around 8:30 p.m. to say she was having a medical emergency at her Little Ferry apartment
Responding police officers found several of Bhavsar’s family members in the apartment, but she was inside a locked bedroom.
When she came out, officers walked into the room and made the gruesome discovery.
The 5-day-old baby was dead from what appeared to be sharp force injuries, police say.
Bhavsar is charged with murder and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.
Neighbors said the baby girl was just five days old. Bhavsar posted a picture of the whole family on Facebook just hours before the stabbing.
Neighbor Aradhana Thakur does not know whether or not Bhavsar was struggling with postpartum depression.
However, according to the Centers for Disease Control, postpartum impacts one in 10 new mothers.
It can including symptoms like crying more, feeling angry, withdrawing from loved ones, not caring for your new baby, or worrying you’ll hurt the baby.
“I saw her yesterday and she was looking OK, normal,” Thakur said. “But I I think she must be going through some sort of depression, because no mother could do this to her child.”
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Parents share video of medical staff dropping newborn baby, demand apology
CHANDLER, Ariz. – An Arizona couple is speaking out and demanding an apology after medical staff were caught on camera dropping one of their newborn twin baby girls, KNXV reported.
Derrick and Monique Rodgers shared the video to Facebook, and within hours, it had been viewed millions of times.
According to KNXV, the incident happened at Chandler Regional Medical Center just seconds after Madison and and Morgan were born February 14.
In the video, Morgan, weighing just over three pounds, is dropped from a hospital employee’s hands onto a table. Nurses are seen scrambling to keep her from hitting the floor.
Rodgers told KNXV that when he confronted the doctor with the video, he received an apathetic response.
Both parents said that aside from being small, having been born prematurely, Morgan seems to be in good health. They do worry that she seems to tense up and shake at times, according to KNXV.
Monique said an apology would have gone a long way after the accident.
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Oklahoma mother accused of beating children with electrical cord over bad grades
OKLAHOMA CITY – A mother was jailed on complaints of child abuse after she allegedly beat her teen daughter for bad grades and used an electrical cord to beat her younger daughter.
Police first learned of the alleged abuse when a school resource officer at Edmond Santa Fe High School saw a 16-year-old student with injuries on her face.
“She had swelling, redness, and some darkening around one of her eyes,” Oklahoma City police Master Sergeant Gary Knight said.
The teen told the school resource officer the injuries came from her mother, Tiara Riley, who punched her because of her grades.
“She said at least ten times about the head and face,” Knight said.
Soon allegations came to light involving some of Riley’s other children. Her 14-year-old daughter is allegedly also the victim of abuse.
According to the police report, Riley beat her “using a belt” and when the belt broke, she “retrieved an electrical cord.” She even allegedly said, “‘So you want to die,'” before she “[wrapped] the electrical cord around the victim’s neck and [pulled] upward.”
Police said Riley is know to have a bad temper and anger issues.
“This really wasn’t corporal punishment, this was beating a kid,” Knight said. “This was hitting a kid in the face multiple times and then possibly beating another with an electrical cord. That goes way past corporal punishment.”
Two years after being found guilty of child endangerment, this Iowa woman is trying to open a daycare
DES MOINES, Iowa – Over two years ago, Cindy Holt pleaded guilty to child endangerment causing bodily injury. Now the ex-daycare operator is trying to get back in business, and the mother whose child was hurt is trying to make sure it never happens again.
“I kinda thought I’m going to be able to go on with my life. I’m not going to have to deal with this. I haven’t heard about it in two years,” Emalie Cipale said. “Then it’s just a normal Sunday night, and it pops back up.”
Cipale said two years after the sentencing of her former daycare provider she was finally beginning to move on. In 2016 Cipale’s now three-year-old daughter, Harper, was found under the care of Cindy Holt with bite marks all over her body. Now, Cipale said those feelings she felt that day are all coming back.
“Every emotion from being angry to shocked to crying to instantly wanting to hold Harper,” Cipale said.
That’s what Cipale felt when she came to pick up her then 9-month-old daughter from daycare back in August 2016 and human bite marks all over her baby from another child Holt was watching. Holt said it happened while she was napping.
“They turn Harper around and Cindy says ‘I’m sorry’ and after that, I’ve been asked what was said, and I don’t remember because all I wanted was Harper and I wanted out,” Cipale said.
Cindy Holt pleaded guilty to child endangerment causing bodily injury, and her daughter Amanda Holt pleaded guilty to child endangerment.
“So I’m going out on a limb here, and going to give you you’re deferred judgement,” Judge Robert Hanson said on sentencing day in February 2017.
Instead of jail time, the deferred judgement involved a sentence of two years probation.
“But you know that does not come with no strings attached,” Hanson said.
Holt gave an emotional response.
“I want you to know that I do not plan on doing daycare again,” Holt said. “I do not want my family or any other family to go through this again.”
Two years later, with her probation complete, Holt is now posting her daycare openings in Altoona. She’s using multiple aliases but saying the same thing, stating she already has a small daycare with five children and is looking to expand.
“I just really hope she’s not still watching five kids,” Cipale said.
Cipale won’t ever forget what happened to her child, but other parents seeing the Facebook ads would have no idea. Holt’s records were expunged. The child endangerment charge no longer appears on the online court system.
“I hope and pray these parents have heard this, someone’s told them ‘hey you need to look at this. You need to read this. You need to know what’s going on,” Cipale said.
Cipale is making sure other parents know what’s going on, taking things into her own hands online.
“Does another child have to get hurt? Does another child have to be put in danger for this woman to finally be shut down?” Cipale asked.
Both Cipale and WHO reached out to DHS and have not heard back. WHO also reached out to Cindy and Amanda Holt and did not hear back.
WHO looked through the list of hundreds of in-home day cares in Polk County and could not find one under Cindy Holt’s name or aliases, but DHS does not require daycares to be registered if they have five or fewer children.
These posts first appeared Sunday, and her most recent attempt at an ad on Facebook was Wednesday afternoon.
Holt could be one of the 50,000 Iowans listed on the Child Abuse Registry list, but that is also not available for the public to view.
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Man won’t go to prison after keeping teen girl in captivity for more than a year
A horrific case out of Georgia continues a recent pattern of men guilty of sex crimes walking away with little to no time in prison.
The Washington Post reports on the April 25 sentencing of Michael Wysolovski, 33, who pleaded guilty to first-degree cruelty to children caused by “excessive physical pain during sexual intercourse” and interstate interference with custody, after keeping a teen captive for over a year.
The girl first met Wysolovski when she was 15 in an online anorexia forum. In May 2016, when she turned 16, Georgia’s age of consent, she ran away from home to meet up and live with him, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Even though they initially engaged in a “consensual non-consensual” BDSM (bondage, domination, submission, masochism) relationship, it soon veered into the abusive, with Wysolovski forcing her into sex, keeping her in a dog cage, and limiting what she ate.
The girl was rescued at age 17 after contact with a woman online who then contacted authorities. When found, she was reportedly malnourished, suffering from ringworm, and plagued with back problems from the cage.
At the hearing, the victim said she has attempted suicide three times since her rescue.
WSOC reports that although he faced up to 25 years in prison, he instead received a 10-year sentence, with credit for eight months already served; the rest of his sentence will be spent on probation. Wysolovski’s attorney stipulated that any plea deal could not include prison time, and the victim and her family wanted to avoid a trial.
Wysolovski also has to register as a sex offender.
Gwinnett County Assistant DA Michael DeTardo told the court rape and aggravated sodomy charges had been mulled but were dropped as they would’ve been hard to prove.
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Assistant Coach at High School in Costa Mesa Arrested, Accused of Sending Inappropriate Photo to Student
An assistant wrestling coach at a high school in Costa Mesa was arrested Thursday morning after allegedly sending an inappropriate photo to a female student, authorities said.
Samuel Galvez, 30, was taken into custody after officers responded to Estancia High School shortly after 9 a.m., according to police. Galvez allegedly sent the student a photo of his genitalia.
The Orange resident also works as a campus security facilitator, police said.
He was booked on suspicion of harmful matter sent with intent of seduction of a minor and is expected to be transferred to Orange County County Jail in Santa Ana. Police said with his bail has been set at $30,000.
No other details have been released.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Detective Jake Jacobi at 714-754-5178.
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Florida Passes Controversial Bill Allowing More Teachers to Arm Themselves
The Florida House passed a controversial school safety bill that would allow teachers to carry guns on campus.
The bill passed Wednesday, and is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
It is based on recommendations made by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission after the Parkland massacre last year.
The bill expands on the measure signed last year that imposed new restrictions on firearm sales and allowed some teachers and staff to carry guns in school, CNN affiliate WFOR reported.
The measure headed to the governor’s desk allows school districts to opt-in to the program and is not a requirement for teachers or districts, CNN affiliate WFOR reported. Teachers from districts that choose to join the program will have to undergo police-style training, psychiatric evaluation and drug screening.
“Broward County School Board voted on a resolution against arming teachers in March 2018. We do not believe arming teachers is the best way to make our schools safe,” Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said in a statement.
Rep. Dane Eagle supported the bill and said it does not mean all teachers will have weapons at their disposal.
“There is no line where we are handing out guns to teachers that walk through a door,” Eagle said.
via: https://ktla.com/2019/05/02/florida-passes-bill-allowing-more-teachers-to-arm-themselves/
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Elderly couple mistakenly sign for package, find $10M in meth inside
An elderly couple in Australia mistakenly signed for a package sent to the wrong address that contained $10 million worth of meth, according to a report.
The pair in the Melbourne suburb of Werribee quickly called police after the box holding 44 pounds of methylamphetamine wound up in their possession Wednesday afternoon, Nine News reported.
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Matthew Kershaw said the couple was “unsure” about the package that was delivered to them and “they asked each other if they ordered anything,” according to the news outlet.
Police ultimately seized the drug bundle and tracked down the suspect responsible — 21-year-old Zhiling Ma of Melbourne, according to Nine News.
“When you think about it, $10 million worth of drugs sent to the wrong address, that’s quite incredible to comprehend that someone could be that sloppy,” Kershaw said.
Investigators raided an address in the suburb of Bundoora tied to Ma and found an additional 44 pounds of meth, the report said.
Ma was charged with importing a marketable quantity of a border controlled drug, according to the news site.
He was remanded into police custody.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/05/02/elderly-couple-mistakenly-sign-for-package-find-10m-in-meth-inside/
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