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Probation?! You’ve got to be kidding.

A Tucson mother who kept her 11-year-old son locked in a stuffy room all summer with only a bucket for a toilet has been sentenced to three years of probation.

Norma Barrientos had pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse.

Pima County sheriff’s deputies discovered Barrientos’ son locked in a room in August after he called 911 from a cell phone to report that he was home alone.

Deputies said the room was warm, had a stench of urine and feces and had a fan that did not work. There were bars and an extra locking device on the window.

This certainly gives one pause. Who would have thought that a toddler could drown in a cooler?

Police say the boy’s father fell asleep late this morning with the boy in the house. When the father awoke at about 11:48 a.m., the child was not in sight.

Police say the boy apparently had fallen head first into an 18-inch square cooler filled with water and ice and a few bottles of beer. The water level was above the tops of the beer bottles and extremely cold.

Police say it appeared the child was unable to get himself out of the cooler and drowned. When the father found the child, he was unresponsive.

A Tuscon, Arizona couple has been arrested and charged after their 6-month-old infant daughter was found dead.

The parents Terri and Scott sullivan are in the Pima County Jail. They are each charged with one count of child abuse.

It was at an east side apartment on South Pantano Road where police say, they found 6-week-old Kimberly Sullivan dead.

Victor Stevens was moving out of the apartment next door. He says he saw the father try to save the baby’s life.

“I saw and heard ‘the baby’s not breathing the baby’s not breathing.’ I really didn’t know what was going on, and I saw the father trying to give the baby mouth to mouth.”

Investigators say, at birth, Kimberly weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces. When she died she weighed 5-pounds, 12 ounces her skin was sagging and they could see her ribs.

A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested for shooting the woman’s two children with a BB gun.

The children’s mother — Briana Pierce, 26 — and her boyfriend — Paul Frantz, 35 — were arrested on two counts each of child abuse, said Deputy Dawn Hanke, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman. The boy, 9, and his sister were placed in the custody of state Child Protective Services.

Last Thursday, the Sheriff’s Department was called to Homer Davis Elementary School, 4250 N. Romero Road, because the boy had visible bruising on his face, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Pima County Superior Court.

He had been absent on the previous days, and school officials had been told he had the flu, the document said. His mother also left a voice-mail message at the school saying they were in New Mexico, and her son got bruises on his face, so she wanted to keep him home.

Yes, you read that headline correctly — this story is about 4 levels of messed up.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of delinquency in connection with critically injuring his 7-week old son.
Police did not name the 14-year-old boy, his son, or the child’s 14-year-old mother, citing their young ages and the status of the infant and his mother as crime victims.
The infant was in critical condition at University Medical Center, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson police spokesman.
Police learned of the suspected abuse Friday when they were sent to UMC to investigate a report of an infant with suspicious injuries, Officer Linda Galindo said in a weekend news statement.

Hey, never heard this one before — a dog that parents are describing as a “pit bull” attacked a 13-month-old boy in his yard.

Katie and Jake Stockman say it was a parent’s worst nightmare. “My 4 year old yelled “dog!” and I turn around and this pit bull looking thing comes up and just knocks him over. It slams his head on the concrete, looks like he kind of grabs him along the leg area.”

They say the dog appeared in their neighborhood about once every month. But it wasn’t until this week they say the dog attacked.

The mother says she scooped up her son then slammed the door, leaving the dog outside.