Child Abuse

A mother’s boyfriend allegedly got his rocks off by forcing her children, ages 6 and 9, to fight each other — street fighting style. If they refused, the boyfriend would beat them repeatedly while the mother stood by and watched.

The boys were saved from this abusive situation when their biological father noticed severe bruising on the boys and alterted police.

Joyce Sabotka, 30, reportedly allowed her boyfriend, Steven Meyer, 32, to stage fights between her sons - ages 9 and 6 - at the couple’s home in Tarentum. The oldest boy told authorities Meyer forced him and his brother to fight at least 20 times, according to a police complaint filed in court.

The baby was deaf and disabled. The father’s supposed girlfriend says she heard the sound of a grapefruit hitting the floor as the father slammed his head to the ground. She allegedly did nothing and is being charged with murder as well as the baby’s mother who stood by and did nothing.

Finally, a sentence which may help bring justice to innocent baby…

Dr. Raj Nanduri, a pathologist, testified that Maxwell had bruises all over his body from previous injuries but died from four blows to the head. She said the boy would have shown obvious signs of distress in the hours before his death.

Eyer testified at Tuesday’s hearing that she left Maxwell with Garcia and Lansdon at his home in East Alton on Dec. 26, although she had been warned by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services never to allow Garcia to be with the child unsupervised.

Why do these women do this? A mother admitted she was uncomfortable with the way the father treated their infant son and alleged he would often pick the baby up by one arm or one leg out of his crib — sooooo she decides he’s adequate to leave the baby alone with him? What was she thinking??

A Salt Lake City man is accused of abusing his infant son, breaking multiple bones.

In charges filed Tuesday, police wrote that the 4-month-old was found July 12 to have five broken ribs and two fractures in each femur.

A father is accused of sqeezing his infant son so hard with his hands, that he broke multiple bones/ribs. He cited his reason for doing so was because he was frustrated that he couldn’t find a job. Reportedly, he also left the baby face down on a pillow, where he suffocated to death.

Authorities have arrested a man who is accused of squeezing his 2-month-old son, fracturing eight of his ribs, because of frustration at his inability to find a job, according to an arrest affidavit.

Christopher C. McDonald Jr., 25, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony for which he could face up to 20 years in prison. He was at the Travis County Jail on Tuesday with bail set at $75,000.

A father, who is reported to be hopped up on drugs, beat his one month old baby to death. It’s unimaginable what could have set him off. A one month old is too little to even cry loudly.

A baby’s death was ruled homicide in Whitfield County.

The GBI crime lab says Piper Hester, who was only a month old, had a large skull fracture, several broken ribs and a broken leg.

Paramedics arrived early Sunday morning to find the baby’s mother performing CPR. She is not expected to be charged.

Police say the baby’s father, Nathaniel Hester, is now charged with murder.

A sex offender and child murderer who spent 20 years in prison for his crime was apparently considered a suitable babysitter accordingly to the mother of a 2 year old he was watching. The little boy was allegedly forced into scalding bath water and taken to the hospital by his mother when she came home to find he had severe burns.

Police said Barnes was on parole at the time of Monday’s incident. He was convicted of the murder in 1980 and was released on parole in May of 2004.

On Monday at 8:45 a.m., Felice Toney, who is Barnes’ roommate, allegedly returned home to find her 2-year-old son Khanerion Toney with second-degree burns on his shoulder, back, buttocks, genital area and on the back of both legs, according to the report.

Two rat stories over the span of a couple of weeks? What’s going on here?

Some trailer dwellers apparently did nothing while a 6 week old infant was being bitten and tortured by a rat, over a period of time, from rats and possibly bitten by the two dogs that also lived in the trailer.

Three adults have been charged with child endangering after authorities discovered that a 6-week-old girl who lived with them in a Pike County mobile home had lost two toes to what appear to be rat bites.

The infant, Leann Lowe, was in stable condition yesterday at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, authorities said.

The worst part about this tragic story, that a 4 day old newborn was taken from his crib and suffered life threatening injuries, is the father’s reaction. The newly born infant was found in the woods, where the dog dragged it, bleeding from the mouth and barely alive, with puncture wounds and bruises, cracked skull and a collapsed lung.

But this is the real beauty of the story (insert sarcasm) — the father was reportedly praising the dog in the following quote!!! What a piece of dog turd this guy is. The dog, by the way, is a allegedly part wolf. You know, the kind of dog that’s encouraged to be around newborns. This ticks me off so much, I’m putting this story under child abuse.

“It wasn’t a vicious dog attack,” Smith said. “She had A.J. for 10 minutes on her own, and if you look at A.J.’s belly, there’s about 100 little marks. All the dog had to do was one bite and A.J. wouldn’t be here.”

A stepfather has been arrested on charges that he and the children’s mother starved the 3 young children, ages 5, 10 and 11 and kept them locked in a budget motel bathroom. Allegations of sexual abuse have also been reported. Police found the children when the mother asked for assitance in removing the children — the children that she neglected to protect. There was also a baby in the hotel room, apparently unharmed because that was the child that the abuser and the mother had together.

Police described the case as one of the worst cases of child abuse they’ve seen.

Court documents describe just how badly the children were abused.

A doctor reported they were horribly emaciated, underweight and malnourished. He described their nutritional status as life threatening. He also said there was a history of severe, ongoing physical, emotional and mental neglect, the documents state.

All three were hospitalized for more than a week.

A babysitter allegedly gave a 9 month old infant wine which resulted in an emergency visit to the hospital where the infant was reportedly found to have four times the legal limit of an adult.

The baby probably would have been better off watching herself.

Carrollton police Sgt. Tony Johnson said authorities are searching for 40-year-old Tammy Demice Truitt of Carrollton on charges of first degree cruelty to children and reckless conduct for giving the baby alcohol.

A boy’s stepfather kept him locked in his room for six years, using an alarm and hooks and straps to keep him imprisoned in his bedroom. The step-father with-held food and water and sexually tortured and physically and emotionally abused the child from the time he was 11 up until he was 17, when he finally told his mother who did not live with them about the abuse.

It is not known why the boy was given custody to his step-father and why his immediate family was uninvolved in his upbringing or how the heinous abuse went unnoticed for so long.

Here are some details revealed about the sick torture that this poor boy went through:

In the statement, the boy said he was so underfed, he had gained 100 pounds in six months after leaving Pratt’s home.

He said when he was allowed out of the bedroom, Pratt would force him to stay sitting on the kitchen floor. At other times, the boy would be forced to kneel on a hard, wood floor or on a ruler as punishment.

“At Christmas, I could open my gifts. Then he would put them in a box, duct tape it shut and store it in the basement. I never got any gifts,” the boy wrote.

The boy said Pratt intimidated him by hitting him, cutting him with knives and threatening him with the rifle, so he was afraid to try to escape.

In what appears to be an act of domestic violence, a man invited his estranged wife and her boyfriends daughter over to go swimming and then allegedly proceeded to put the 8 year old girl in a headlock and shoot her twice in the head. He then shot himself in the stomach but apparently survived.

The coroner’s office identified the girl as Heather Brooke Center of Woodruff.

Investigators said they weren’t sure of Blackwell’s motive.

“I don’t know where you can go in the mind to justify shooting a child,” said Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright. “I don’t understand how you can get so angry.”

The sheriff said Blackwell, 50, has a long criminal record. He was charged with murder and kidnapping. No one answered his phone Wednesday night.

A father has been arrested after bringing his infant to the emergency claiming that the infant accidentally broke his leg. Investigators and doctors concluded that the femur bone could not have broken by accident and alledge the fracture was a result of abuse.

Sylvester’s 45-day-old child was taken to Baptist Hospital with a fracture to the left thigh. The hospital reported the injury didn’t appear to be accidental.

He is charged with Felony Child Abuse.

A Dallas man is being accused of chaining up two small children, ages 2 and 3, by handcuffing their legs togehter and then chaining their handcuffs to a metal pole inside a closet. He allegedly then began trying to choke the mother to death, however, the mom managed to break free and was apparently able to rescue her children.

The man will be charged with child endangerment although that doesn’t seem quite. Surely, there must be a greater charge to be filed along with it if the allegations are true, like child abuse and attempted murder.

Officer responded to the home about 4:45 p.m., but Tyler refused to come out until the police tactical unit responded to the scene and helped arrest him.

As Tyler was being booked into the county jail, police explained that he would be charged with child endangerment.

“I wasn’t going to hurt them,” Tyler said. “I always play with them like that with handcuffs.”

In one of the saddest stories I’ve read in weeks, a little 7 year old boy was beaten so badly by his father on Father’s Day that he was put on life support. Eventually, the boy was declared brain dead and taken off life support.

The boy’s father’s girlfriend is also being charged because reportedly she did nothing to stop the abuse.

RIP little man. The world never got to know you but you will be missed.

The boy was physically and mentally abused by his father for about two months, police said. On Father’s Day, he suffered severe injuries when his father slammed his head into a bedroom wall with such force that it left a dent in the wall, they said.

Schuler was arraigned Tuesday on seven counts of assault and battery and three assault counts. He pleaded not guilty and was held on $250,000 cash bail. His lawyer, Christopher Tully, said his client was remorseful.