Articles labeled: child endangerment

A couple in Southampton, New York are being charged with child endangerment for leaving their 2-month-old in the car while they went into an OTB to watch the Kentucky Derby. And the brainiac mom can’t figure out that she did anything wrong:

Krystal Rose Downes, later told officers she thought her infant was safe enough because the car’s heat was on. She said she hadn’t endangered the baby “because after all, she didn’t leave the baby out in the cold,” and “she made sure she left the vehicle running so the heat could be kept on,” police told Newsday newspaper.

The parents of a 5 year old Chicago boy who shot himself in the head, are being charged with a misdemeanor for having an unregistered firearm in the house and putting a child in danger.

MT says, “A misdemeanor?!? Shouldn’t this be a felony??!”

The parents of a 5-year-old South Side boy critically wounded when he accidently shot himself in the head Saturday evening have been charged with endangering the life and health of a child, a misdemeaner, Chicago police said early Sunday.

Cortney Rodgers Sr., 26, the boy’s father, and his mother, Dorothy Hayden, 27, of the 6100 block of South Wabash Avenue, are scheduled to appear in court on the charges May 19. Rodgers also has been charged with violating the state’s registration laws for firearms owners, also a misdemeaner.

A school bus driver in Huntley, Illinois was taken into custody. Police say that she deliberately slammed on the brakes, sending kids flying everywhere. The children on the bus were elementary school age, ranging from 5 to 10 years old.

Julieta Clinton, 37, of 9 Savoy Court, Lake in the Hills, was taken into custody at the school district transportation office 650 Academic Drive, Algonquin, at 1:30 p.m. She was charged with 19 counts of reckless conduct, a Class A misdemeanor, and 19 counts of child endangerment, a Class A misdemeanor.

Clinton posted bond and was released. She is scheduled to appear in McHenry County Court at 8:30 a.m. May 22.

Huntley police said they were called about 8:25 a.m. to Leggee Elementary School, 13723 Harmony Road, to assist the Huntley Fire Department on a report of several injured juveniles on a school bus. Police said it initially was reported that the school bus made an abrupt stop in the school parking lot, causing injury to the pupils.

What we don’t get when we hear these kinds of stories, is why the parents thought that nobody would notice a small child alone in a car while you shop at the mall. And on top of it, these knuckleheads didn’t even bother to lock the doors!

Authorities say the boy’s mother, 20-year-old Mauriel Mercado, and her boyfriend, 22-year-old Derek Garcia, left the toddler Friday evening outside the Arden Fair Mall.

Mall security officials say the toddler was spotted by passers-by after he set off the car alarm. One mall customer retrieved the toddler from the unlocked car.

Steve Reed, head of security at the mall, says the car’s windows were up and the child was sweating and looked frightened.

Maybe these 2 need some sweaty, frightening solitary confinement so they’ll know how the kid felt.

MT can’t even think of an appropriate punishment for such evil people.

Reports reveal that the mother knowingly allowed her boyfriend to beat the child on a regular basis and was fully aware he was beating the child with a cord and heard her cries and screaming and just went on her merry way. She was probably grateful that someone else was going to take the fall for getting rid of a baby she obviously felt was a burden.

Then, she puts on a good show for the police, crying and asking about the condition of her baby as she sat in the police station. MT thinks this was a calculated effort on her part to lessen her jail time as an accessory. After all, Judges an Juries fall for that crap all the time. Especially since jurors are the ones who aren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty, we leave our children’s fate in their hands.

While the mother stood by and watched her boyfriend beat her baby to death with a video game cord, she did nothing, yet cried at police station asking for updates on her baby??? Are you kidding me????? Sounds like she put on a good show, probably more concerned about thwarting jail time than her baby.

The mother admitted that the boyfriend had been beating the toddler for months. BOTH of them need to be charged with murder. This is outrageous. Can anybody imagine the suffering and pain this little baby went though before her body finally gave up?

During questioning at the police station, Johnson admitted to beating the girl but did not say why, Ward said. The toddler was beaten with a video game controller and cord, according to charging documents.

Just before 2:30 p.m. Sunday, the mother and boyfriend had called 911 to report the injured toddler, Ward said. After the beating, Johnson put the toddler in a bathtub to revive her but she remained unresponsive, according to court records.

Johnson then brought the wet, limp and unresponsive child to Baez and the two began CPR, court records say.

Afterward, the mother told police Johnson was beating her daughter and the child was screaming and then stopped, according to charging documents.

Baez was charged because she was home when Johnson allegedly beat the toddler but did not intervene or try to get help, Ward said.

Sheesh, leaving your 1 year old home alone is bad enough when they’re in a crib, but to leave them on the floor?? And even worse, the cops couldn’t even track down the mother for 7 hours. How long was she going to leave the baby there? Oh, and this is shocking, mom was also caught with drugs.

A young mother will stand before a judge on Monday, after she allegedly left her infant child inside her locked apartment and her seven and 8-year-old children on the outside.

Police have charged 26-year-old Yahsmin Graves after an officer on routine patrol spotted her older children outside an apartment building in the 900 block of Bank Street on Saturday.

According to a police report, the 8-year-old child told the officer that the infant was inside the apartment.

The officer found a way inside and found the infant on the floor alone.

Treffly Coyne, a mom from Tinley Park, Illinois who was accused by Crestwood police of child endangerment after leaving her child in a car — the charges were later dropped — has filed a lawsuit against the village. Coyne is claiming false arrest and malicious prosecution. Hmmm, while we’re on the side of Coyne in that we think the initial charge was bogus, she might lose some of the goodwill she gained with people that are rather tired of this lawsuit happy society.

Flanked by her husband and three daughters, Ellen “Treffly” Coyne said officers acted brashly and failed to use common sense when they arrested her in December.

“This moment of giving turned into aggressive boom, boom, boom, accusations in a minute,” Coyne said at a news conference in her lawyer’s Loop office.

Coyne’s husband, Tim Janecyk, said the family had hoped to move on with their lives after the charges were dropped last week but decided to file the lawsuit after Crestwood Police Chief Timothy Sulikowski told the media he was disappointed prosecutors did not pursue the case.

The couple said the suit, which seeks unspecified damages, is not about money but is about closure and holding officials responsible.

In case you’re not up to speed, Treffly Coyne is a woman from Tinley Park, Illinois who was arrested for briefly leaving her young child in her car alone in a Wal-Mart parking lot. The case caused quite a stir on message boards, with some claiming what Coyne did was reckless and she deserved to be punished, while most seemed to think it was an outrage and an overreaction by police. Well, the majority seems to have been vindicated, as prosecutors are indicating that they are going to submit a motion to drop all charges:

Treffly Coyne, 36, was set to go on trial Thursday on misdemeanor charges of child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer. But the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office found the evidence did not support the charges, sources said.

Prosecutors will drop the case at a Thursday court appearance in Bridgeview, sources said.

It was Dec. 8 when Coyne drove to Wal-Mart in suburban Crestwood so that her children could donate $8.29 in coins to the Salvation Army.

When she arrived, she parked in a loading zone. Her two-year-old daughter Phoebe was asleep. Coyne locked the car and activated the alarm, then took her two other daughters and another child to the Salvation Army donation kettle no more than ten yards away.

A community service officer intercepted Coyne on her way back to the car. Crestwood police then arrested her.

Now, our kids can get just as unruly as the next, and we’ll admit we’ve daydreamed about some creative punishments for the little buggers — locking them in the garage, throwing them in an alligator pit, running them through the car wash… the difference is that these are fantasy stress relievers, we don’t actually do it.

A Florida mother caught on tape using a pressurized hose at a car wash to discipline her toddler daughter could end up in hot water after police meet Friday to consider filing child endangerment charges.

“She appeared [to be] a parent who thought she was disciplining her child for acting up. It’s a unique form of punishment that I don’t think anyone has ever seen,” Commander Matt Irwin of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said Friday on TODAY. “It’s not acceptable in my mind.”

The incident began on Feb. 24 when a white Hyundai Elantra pulled into a self-service bay at the Magical Car Wash in Orlando…

Police later determined that the toddler’s mother, who is 22 and five months pregnant, pulled into the car wash for the sole purpose of hosing down her daughter — possibly for wetting herself in the backseat of the car.

At the end of the surveillance tape of the incident, which police seized as potential evidence, the woman is seen stripping her daughter’s soaked clothes off and wrapping her up in a towel.

The woman has since turned herself into police. She has not been publicly identified.

Treffly Coyne, a mother in Tinley Park, Illinois, is facing a count of child endangerment after leaving her 2-year-old briefly locked inside her car as she and three other children ran up to the front of a Crestwood Wal-Mart to put money in a Salvation Army collection bucket. The case raises an interesting point — what is the threshold for the amount of time you can leave your child “alone” (the car was always in Coyne’s plain sight) until it becomes endangerment?

Coyne took her three daughters and a neighbor’s child to Wal-Mart on an icy night so her kids could donate money they collected to the Salvation Army.

When she drove up to the Wal-Mart entrance, her 2-year-old daughter was asleep. Rather than wake her up and risk falling on the icy pavement with the child in her arms, Coyne left her in her car seat, locked the car and walked about 30 feet away to a Salvation Army bell ringer’s bucket with the other three kids, the defense said.

A minute or two later as she and the kids walked back to the car, a community service officer from Crestwood was standing there and told her she was under arrest for child endangerment.

Coyne said she couldn’t believe what was happening because she was always within sight of her car, her husband said.

A Georgia man who is a convicted child molester took his 4 year old daughter without permission as he does not have custody of the little girl.

Minor Topics is thinking this might not turn out well. The child molester is wanted for bond violation. There is nothing good that happen with him having unfettered access to a small child. I can only imagine the kind of abuse he will likely inflict upon her.

She needs to be found.

ATLANTA (FOX 5) – Authorities were trying locate a missing child and her father Saturday.

Police and U.S. Marshals were searching for 51-year-old Jerry Jones who reportedly took off with his 4-year-old daughter, Madison Kerr Friday night and the pair hasn’t been seen since.

We’ve all periodically read stories about a mom leaving her kids home alone while she goes off for the weekend with her boyfriend or whatever, but this must set some sort of record. A Houston mom apparently decided that her 16-year-old was old enough to babysit her other five children, ranging in age from 1 to 15, so she left on a little jaunt — FOR A MONTH TO NIGERIA. What, was she following up on one of those lottery winning emails?

When she left for Nigeria on Dec. 31, [Shanell Monique] Mosley told her 15-year-old daughter she would return in a month, child welfare officials said.

Prosecutor John Jordan said Mosley’s six children, now in foster homes, were starving and her older children couldn’t recall their own birth dates.

Mosley’s children are ages 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16, Jordan said. The other two children found in the home were 3- and 4-year-olds the family cared for on behalf of a single father who worked, Jordan said.

The 9-year-old son told authorities he and the baby ate a still-frozen pizza for breakfast the morning they were discovered home alone. There were no diapers, baby food or formula for the infant, no sheets on beds and fruit was rotting in a basket, Jordan said.

And who was this dad that dropped his kids off at this daycare from hell? He didn’t notice something was a bit off? “Oh, well, got to go to work!”

Mosley was arrested when she returned this past Monday and charged with child endangerment and child abandonment.

Claiming that he was blow drying his newborn’s hair, because we all know how a newborn hair needs that, he gave her second degree burns on her face and leg.

What a monster.

DETROIT — A 28-year-old Plymouth Township man was arraigned on multiple child abuse charges after police said he repeatedly burned his 8-week-old with a blow dryer.

Shawn Treadwell is the baby’s biological father and faces charges of first-degree child abuse, a 15-year-felony and second-degree child abuse, a four-year felony. He is also being charged as a habitual offender, fourth-degree.

The University of Michigan Hospital staff reported that an 8-week old was brought in on Saturday and treated for second-degree burns to the face and leg.

WARNING! The abuse described below is extremely graphic and highly disturbing…The staff at Minor Topics is rendered speechless by this senseless act of violence and abuse against a baby.

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The toddler’s injuries weren’t consistent with how the couple said the girl hurt herself, said Jaroscak, who called the case among the “most devastating” he’s seen.

Charging documents state that doctors at Primary Children’s Medical Center - where the toddler was sent because of her extensive injuries - examined the girl and found chemical burns on the toddler’s face, hands and eyes. The burns on the girl’s eyes caused severe corneal damage that could result in her losing her vision, according to the documents.

The girl also suffered hemorrhages in both eyes and at least 50 cuts on her hands. Doctors discovered seven broken bones in her left hand and five in her right, which they believe were caused by “violent squeezing or blows directly to the hands,” the documents state.

Patches of her hair were missing as were two teeth, injuries which doctors’ said were consistent with blunt force trauma.

Roberts told detectives that she and Crispin, her live-in boyfriend, used a syringe to reduce swelling in the toddler’s hands on Monday.

You can’t make this stuff up.

If this is true, I hope this boy finds a home with parents who love him. It’s not too late for him to find peace.

A daycare employee is also being charged by failing to report observed burns all over the boys body.

AIRMONT, N.Y. — Police arrested a woman Friday after her 7-year-old son told authorities she burned him in an oven, and a day-care worker was arrested for not reporting the attack, authorities said.

The mother, 26-year-old Tiffany Fraser of Tallman, was charged with assault and endangering a child, authorities said.

Police began investigating after the boy was spotted alone at a shopping center and told officers he had run away because “his mother had put him in an oven and burned him as a punishment,” according to police reports.