Articles labeled: child endangerment

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.

A 17 month old boy who had cooking oil, heated in a frying pan, poured on his genitals as well as beaten to the point of sustaining spinal injuries is recovering, but the extent of his injuries and whether or not he’ll be able to walk again have not yet been reported.

Perhaps the boyfriend and the mother don’t know what it feels like to be punched in the stomach by someone 15X bigger than you and have frying grease poured on their genitals and a hair-dryer used to burn off their skin, so I recommend that they find out. If it’s good enough for their baby, surely it’s good enough for them.

We are failing in protecting our most vulnerable. I don’t know what can be done, if anything, but it seems like this happens far, far too often. Once is too much.

And of course! — It happened in Florida. Surprise. Surprise.

The mother of an Apopka toddler severely burned and beaten was arrested today on one count of child neglect, police said.

Marlita S. Stokes, 23, was at work when her boyfriend Darlanne Toussaint, 24, used his fist to smash the 17-month-old’s chest and back, and a blow dryer to burn the child’s skin. The boy who suffered second-degree burns on his genitals, back, chest and head, is in stable condition at Florida Hospital Orlando this morning.

Toussaint was baby-sitting girlfriend Marlita Stokes’ two children at the couple’s home in the 1900 block of Nicole Lee Circle when the incident occurred Thursday morning, police said. The other child was not hurt.

A mother left behind 8 children to flee to Nigeria to marry a man she met online. When the children were found, some of them were near death…

Six children left home alone while their 33-year-old mom went to Nigeria to marry a man she met on the Internet are expected to remain in foster care until a Jan. 16 custody hearing, authorities said Friday.

Eight children — including a 3- and 4-year-old who the family watched for a working single father — were found at a roach-infested home Wednesday night with no food, money or toilet paper. The youngest, a 1-year-old boy, was dehydrated, malnourished and lost consciousness as he was being treated by emergency workers, officials said.

Forget giving every baby a $5,000 bond when they’re born as Hillary so obtusely suggested. Why don’t we have nurses check up on babies after they’ve left the hospital to see what kind of conditions they live in and whether or not they’re being cared for?

Andrea Rotondo is facing child endangerment charges after police found her 2-year-old son wandering around by himself.

Rotondo, 44, rents at the The Scottsdale Belle Rive Apartments off McDowell.

Neighbors say just before six-thirty Sunday night they spotted a young boy walking around wearing nothing but a soiled diaper.