Mother may be charged with beating her newborn to death
This story just leaves me so discouraged and demoralized.
What is the point of Child Protective Services anyway? It seems that they’re more concerned with protecting and rewarding abusive parents than they are the children. Can’t we get an organization that actually cares about the well being of innocent babies and children? It’s bull.
The mom confessed to cops that she had hurt Pablo at least twice since he was born Feb. 8, the complaint said.
She told cops that on Feb. 22 she was changing the squirming baby’s diaper and “pressed down several times on his leg in an effort to make the baby stop moving,” prosecutors said.
She then “picked the baby up under his arms and threw the baby onto her bed,” breaking his leg and several of his ribs, prosecutors said.
She also emotionlessly described how she hurt the baby last Thursday when she “picked him up and hit him on the left side of his head with an open hand,” prosecutors said.
She dropped the car seat a short time later, sending the child crashing to the floor onto his head. He suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.
Caseworkers from the Administration for Children’s Services had visited Paez’s Corona home just two days before that final beating, but apparently saw no reason to remove the child.
Six months ago, ACS workers took a toddler from a pregnant Paez because of her drug use, but she had been clean since, authorities said.
“This is a sad and terrible tragedy that no child should ever have to experience,” ACS said in a statement. “We cannot comment in detail on our involvement with this family as we are still investigating.”
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