Articles labeled: Indiana

“Neglect” seems like a light charge for a mom who would cover up her boyfriend’s horrific abuse of her infant, but we guess we’ll have to take what we can get:

Prosecutors said [Krystal A. Pollitt’s live-in boyfriend, Jeremiah A. Hoots] beat Kaitlynne [Pollitt] on Dec. 17. The girl died a few days later.

An autopsy found the girl had two skull fractures, bleeding in the brain and a broken neck. Hoots told investigators that the girl was hurt while wresting with her brothers.

One of the victim’s two young brothers told investigators Hoots had tried to persuade him to take the blame for the girl’s injuries.

A behavior teacher perpetuating the stereo-type that those who can’t — teach, was wrestling with a middle school student and proceeded to break the student’s finger as the teacher called for submission. The principal is citing horse play while the parents are implying a lawsuit.

CLOVERDALE, Ind. — A Cloverdale Middle School anger-management teacher resigned after he broke a student’s finger during what began as horseplay, school officials said.

Scott Porter recently broke an index finger of Jordan Mundy (pictured) as they were wrestling each other during an anger-management class, Jordan and the school’s principal said.

These people make Britney Spears look like a model parent.

What a bunch of assholes.

Poor baby. He had the blood alcohol level above what is allowable for an ADULT to be allowed to drive.

MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) - A Muncie woman and her boyfriend are behind bars after allegedly giving alcohol to an 11 month old baby. Police say the little boy’s blood alcohol level was 0.118.

Investigators call this the epitome of irresponsible parenting. The couple claims the boy accidentally drank the alcohol but detectives say this was no accident.

Empty beer bottles sit just feet away from the home at 30 Mulberry Street. This is where investigators say 19-year old Amanda Elbert lived with her son and boyfriend, Edward Williams.

Many mysterious surround the fatal shooting of two young Indiana mothers and their children, from anonymous tips of burglaries yet to happen to motive behind the murders.

IMPD officers got a call that shots were being fired in the 3200 block of Hovey Street. When officers arrived, they found four people inside the home, all suffering from gunshot wounds.

The two adults, 24-year-old Gina Hunt and 24-year-old Andrea Yarrell, and Charlii Yarrell, the infant daughter of Andrea, were all pronounced dead on the scene. A four-month-old girl was taken to Methodist Hospital in critical condition with several gun shot wounds. She died a few hours later. At this time, the child has not been positively identified.

Police do not know much about the suspects, except that two black men were seen running north on Hovey Street away from the scene.

The forces of mother nature are something that cannot always be reckoned with.

Such a sad story, a mothers SUV gets stuck in rising flood waters and she must make a choice as to who to rescue first.

Just a horrible situation…

In northern Indiana, Megihann Leininger’s SUV stalled Tuesday on a flooded road near Rochester, about 45 miles south of South Bend, before floating into deeper water, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department said.

The first officer on the scene could see nothing except its roof rack, Mentone Fire Chief Mike Yazel said. He said Leininger, 29, was able to come to the surface and put three of her children on the roof: Mariah Leininger, 4, Michael McDaniel, 1, and Canari Trigg, 3 months.

It took several minutes for crews to rescue the four, but there was nothing they could do for Shay Leininger, 5, and Ashley Pruitt, 2, who were trapped underwater.

“The water was too deep, too cold, too fast,” Yazel said. Their mother “had to sit there on the roof, knowing that would be the worst part of the story,” he said.

An infant who’s IV needle left his vein, sending medication into his arm with fluid buildup that is causing an excrutiating amount of pain and may result in amputation.

This is was pure negligence as nurses and staff are supposed to check the integrity of IV’s periodicaly…

INDIANAPOLIS — Hospital staff didn’t immediately notice that a needle escaped a baby’s vein, allowing intravenous solution to swell the arm and threaten the body part’s viability, his family said.

The family of 2-month-old Anthony Correa (pictured) said it is upset with Riley Hospital for Children and fears the boy could lose his arm because of the incident early New Year’s Day.

“They touch his arm, he cries. He’s in pain,” the boy’s aunt, Norma Correa, told 6News’ Ray Cortopassi on Tuesday.

While law enforcement and parents are left scratching their heads as to why there has been a noticable increase in teachers sexually assualting children, one needn’t look past the reason why predators are teachers in the first place. It’s all about access. Occam’s razor. Predators choose professions that give them access to children. The question is, should parents be concerned? The answer is YES! The Boston area has similar findings with the epidemic that is teacher/coach predation in our schools:

It’s a parents’ nightmare. And it’s one of 30 accounts of sexual misconduct by licensed teachers and school employees recorded from 2001 to 2005 in Indiana, according to a review by The Associated Press.

Sexual misconduct was reported in all types of schools — urban and rural, rich and poor, private and public. Victims were girls and boys, from 17 years old to as young as 8. Crimes included child molesting, sexual battery and child pornography. And the teachers involved were often those who spend time with students outside the classroom — band directors, choir teachers or coaches.