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Posted June 3rd, 2009 by minortopics | Permalink

Father charged with abusing baby, fracturing her skull

A 2 month old infant was taken to the hospital with numerous injuries including a skull fracture, resulting in alleged, ongoing abuse…

ERIE, Pa. - A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been charged with fracturing his infant daughter’s skull after doctors say her injuries couldn’t have happened when the child fell from the man’s knee, as he claimed.

Twenty-eight-year-old Cory Rankin, of Erie, is charged with aggravated assault, child endangerment and other crimes.


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34 Responses to “Father charged with abusing baby, fracturing her skull”

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1. Angel

June 3, 2009 @ 6:17 pm

Hopefully that baby will never see that sick piece of garbage again. I hope that so-called father gets his a** kicked 3 times a day in jail.

2. Katerina Jurtinusova

June 11, 2009 @ 4:05 pm

wooooooooooooooooow,ppl have to be pretty messed up for doing this to lil kids=[
it pretty f***in sad……

3. Stephanie Tremblay

June 16, 2009 @ 10:18 am

You people are right nasty gits. And a bunch of newspaper suckers!!!! There are apparently no responsible journalist left in the Erie, PA area. What they didn’t tell you was that the baby was fell from his lap while he was trying to check his other daughters diaper. The baby just started the head jerk stage and he wasn’t prepared for it as he should have been. (maybe a bit off but any parent that says they didn’t let their child take a fall at some point is LYING!!!) She hit her head and then had to be lifeflighted. She wasn’t abused as you ignorant morons assumed by what the papers spinned in the favor of the injustice system and to help the Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh save their own a**es. What they didn’t tell you was that the reason they’re saying she was abused is because they don’t feel the retinal bleedy she had could have come from the fall. What they didn’t tell you was that just before the incident the baby had received a vaccination that causes clots to form in the brain and that when she fell it ruptured said clot. The Childrens Hospital, despite several (SEVERAL!!) requests made by the family did not perform a MRI until AFTER she had a seisure and then told the family that because she seized there was no way to determine when the clot had formed. Cory is a good man, a very loving father and the next time you dumba**es read an article you might want to stop and think about the fact that all too often the papers and news leave out details. Only horrible news sells and it’s because of people like you!!!

4. Stephanie Tremblay

June 16, 2009 @ 7:24 pm

I would like to apologize for the dumba** and moron name calling. Just very frustrated by the amount of people that believe the falsehoods printed about Cory. The rest of my statement stands… he is simply not capable of hurting his children. The baby… perfectly fine and normal. Thanks to those that listened. I too used to read things and think OMG! what a jerk, hope he rots… but when it’s one of your own on the end of that written attack it changes the perspective of how you look at things. Yup… Cory and I are family. He’s my brother-in-law. I’ve known him for about 8 years now. And I’ve only seen him get mad twice. First time, when someone threatened his then pregnant wife (my sister) and the second when the drunk driver that killed my first husband only got 6 months in jail and a 3000 dollar fine.
Believe me… if we (his family) thought he’d done this there’d be no jail needed!
So again… sry about the name calling. This was the 15th site I’d been to today and was simply fed up with all the nasty thoughts.
And again… thanks to those with heart enough to care, even after they’d initially thought him horrible!

5. Veronica

June 17, 2009 @ 11:02 pm

Stephanie Tremblay, YOU ARE AN IDIOT. You think it’s okay to let that scumbag abuse that poor little girl. If you don’t like this site, then feel free to find a website that supports child abusers, like this one:

http://www.criminallyinsanechildhaters.com

This should work because you seem to be supporting this so-called father. He hurt her, he fractured her skull, HE FRIGGIN TORTURED HER. How dare you bash us for wishing for that scumbag to be beaten by his cellmates. May God help your soul, Stephanie Tremblay. How do you sleep at night. Your first post below Katerina Jurtinsova’s post really tells me that you may be the only one to literally sleep well at night.

6. Angel

June 20, 2009 @ 3:31 pm

Stephanie Tremblay, you f****** bitch, the only idiot on this page is YOU. Did someone just make this s*** up? Did someone go and say “Let’s randomly arrest this guy for child abuse!”?
No the hell they did not. It’s people like you who care about sick bastards more than their own kids. You are just as sick as Cory Rankin if you stick up for him and if you are related to him that would explain a lot. Maybe sickness runs in your family. Even if it was an “accident”, that proves that he is NOT a good father or a father at all because these serious “accidents” dont happen to children who have caring parents. That’s for insulting people and expecting to get away with it and it’s for sticking up for morons.

7. Veronica

June 21, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

Angel, you go, girl! What that POS did is sadistic and horrendous…and that troll named Stephanie Tremblay is approving. Seriously, I hate people who defend child abusers. Stephanie Tremblay is a BIG FAT TROLL WITH SEVERELY UNTREATED ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES. PERIOD. Who in the right mind wants to stick up for that scumbag?! Stephanie tremblay, if you can’t handle kids, then you should’ve kept your legs shut at all times.

8. Fey

June 25, 2009 @ 2:52 am

I am the mother of Cory’s 11 year old daughter. Cory lived with my family primarily since he was 16 years old. And before that, we knew each other since we were little kids riding horses and having fun. Cory would NEVER Hurt a child. I mean that firmly. He never lost patients through the 4 years he lived with her, nor the 2 years after that(do the math…it equals 6 years) where he babysat my other child so I could work. What the articles do not say, is that Children services(also known as OCY) in Erie county have been very drastically wrong. They have been sued, and lost for placing charges after police have cleared names through their investigations. That they have been sued for placing children back into homes that abuse occurred(think back a few years…2 year old little girl drowned a day after placed back in home). Cory has talked to me about this case since day ONE. He was extremely worried about his daughter, extremely worried about how his other two children would react to it. Worried, like a true parent is after an accident, I EMPHASIZE the word ACCIDENT. And Lay the F*** off of Steph. She is one of the Best mothers I know. And unless you know her, OR Cory personally, who the hell are you to judge?

9. Angel

June 25, 2009 @ 7:29 pm

Fey, what the hell do you expect? We read the newspaper articles and we judge based on what we read…DUH. We have a right to judge whatever the hell we want. I’m 15 and I read this article saying that a man abused his baby and of course I made a judgement based on it like I always do… and until it is proven wrong I will continue to do so. I could see how this would be an accident, but i’m making judgements based on what the newspaper said…not what 2 random people from where ever said. Got it? Good.

P.S. I will not “lay the f*** off Steph” because she knows that we were making judgements on what the article said and she decided to say a bunch of rotten s*** anyway. What did she expect?

P.S.S. I hope that baby is OK.

10. Veronica

June 25, 2009 @ 7:48 pm

Fey, YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!! YOU THINK IT’S OKAY TO LET THAT SCUMBAG ABUSE THAT POOR LITTLE GIRL!!!!! That is because you are a child abuser anyways as well. People like you and Stephanie Tremblay really need to be smacked. You are messed up. What he did so way beyond horrendous and sadistic…and you are approving?! YOU ARE SICK!!! I guess you and Stephanie Tremblay may be the only ones to literally sleep well at night.

11. Veronica

June 25, 2009 @ 7:49 pm

Oops, I actually meant, “What he did is way beyond horrendous and sadistic…and you are approving?!”

12. Angel

June 25, 2009 @ 8:56 pm

I agree with Veronica. Also, Fey, you do not know anybody. People can seem to be nice but they are really evil on the inside. I learned that the HARD way. And you and Stephanie seem to keep saying it’s an accident. If so, how EXACTLY did it happen? How did the baby get so many injuries if she fell off his knee? My sisters fell out of the bed 19 times when they were little ( yes, I counted)and they did not have that many injuries if any at all. If you can’t answer that question then you don’t know Cory as well as you think and you should probably just be quiet. If Cory really is innocent, which I doubt, then I feel sorry for him but if not then I don’t take back ANYTHING I said before. That’s that.

13. Dawna

July 9, 2009 @ 2:26 pm

I am very against child abuse. VERY. And if this were child abuse then he should pay and only he and God knows what really happened. There should be no judgement on anyone. Who are you to judge this person you don’t even know. Newspapers only tell you what they want you to hear. Get your facts all of them before you judge a person.

14. Veronica

July 9, 2009 @ 8:15 pm

Too bad Fey and Stephanie Tremblay are actually improving what this scumbag did. I know this sounds mean, Dawna, but I don’t care who is judging.

I don’t like it when people come to this site just to write down stuff, like “Hey I know this person, blah blah blah”. Trust me, Dawna, I would really be disgusted if I ever knew a person online, and especially on this site. This isn’t something that I would ever brag about.

Besides “I know this person, yak yak yak”, I also hate it when trolls say stuff like “Leave ‘em alone”, “they is nice”, “shut up if you don’t know what you’re talking about”, “he a good daddy” and more…BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!

Sorry, Dawna, but the only part of your above comment I will buy is that you are against child abuse. We all are (maybe except Fey and Stephanie Tremblay).

15. Veronica

July 9, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

Oopsies, I actually meant “Too bad Fey and Stephanie Tremblay are actually approving what this scumbag did.”

16. Ann

July 11, 2009 @ 11:26 pm

Angel and Veronica, what is the view like from inside your own rear ends? If there are multiple members of his family saying he did not do it, why are believing some reporter trying to advance their career as apposed people who have known in for years? I can’t wait until you two see once and for all his family was right and that you two are a couple of ignorant cranks who just want to see the worst in men.

17. Angel

July 12, 2009 @ 5:41 pm

Ann, shut the f*** up. You don’t know what happened. Of course people are gonna stick up for their family members. It doesn’t make them right. I clearly said IF Cory did this…but you didn’t see that, did you? Of course.

18. Angel

July 12, 2009 @ 5:43 pm

And i’m sure you would be pretty f****** mad if someone did this to your baby, accident or not…because I sure as hell would. I feel sorry for that baby while you feel sorry for the guy who did this. What’s wrong with this f****** world???

19. Veronica

July 12, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

Ann, you don’t like this site? Don’t read it. Just move on.

20. Julia

July 31, 2009 @ 1:20 am

I think a site like this is very very wrong. You read the papers and you automatically assume the worse….Its people like you that give “freedom of speech” a bad name. So does that mean that there are really 100 yr old zombies giving birth to alien babies or zebra men attacking people? Does that mean that everything that is in print is the 100% gods honest truth??? you think its okay to judge someone?? YOU PEOPLE weren’t there, you don’t know what happened. You don’t know that this “POOR POOR child” was abused, or tortured. I have known Corey for a very long time seeing as he is my husbands cousin and I will stand up for him and go to bat that this was an accident. In the years that I have known him I have never seen him loose his temper, not even at the times he should of!!! I believe it was jesus who said let he who has not sinned cast the first stone, why don’t you wait til you hear the WHOLE TRUTH before you judge. Why don’t you follow what our constitution says that people are innocent until PROVEN GUILTY. Not guilty to proven innocent, and last but not least, why don’t you people get a darn life and worry about whats going on in your OWN homes and stop worry about others!!

Thank You and god bless!!

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