Baby Found With 22 Broken Bones; Parents Arrested

[Missizzy]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22045153/detail.html

"MARIETTA, Ga. -- A Marietta couple was arrested Tuesday after their 2-month-old child was admitted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with 22 broken bones, including a skull fracture.

Another child, a 1-year-old, was taken by authorities and placed into protective custody."

Twenty-two.....broken.....bones. A two month old.

[Recovering-Lurker]

Originally Posted by Missizzy

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22045153/detail.html

"MARIETTA, Ga. -- A Marietta couple was arrested Tuesday after their 2-month-old child was admitted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with 22 broken bones, including a skull fracture.

Another child, a 1-year-old, was taken by authorities and placed into protective custody."

Twenty-two.....broken.....bones. A two month old.

I'm so sick of this happening to precious children.

[LogicalMinds]

OMG....unreal...when does this insanity stop??

Please...NO bond for these monsters...take the other baby away immediately....stop the insanity

[dreamweaver]

http://sandrarose.com/2009/12/23/2-m...rents-charged/
more info on parents , if you can call them that,
and the bond for each. Mom's pic shows black eyes

[zadari]

Originally Posted by Recovering-Lurker

I'm so sick of this happening to precious children.

AMEN ITA .. i dont understand why people harm children and i NEVER will

[PeteyGirl]

It takes so much force to break bones in an infant because they are somewhat flexible.

I just can't imagine it. The "parents" look like human beings but they can't be.

[drip~drop]

Originally Posted by Missizzy

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22045153/detail.html

"MARIETTA, Ga. -- A Marietta couple was arrested Tuesday after their 2-month-old child was admitted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with 22 broken bones, including a skull fracture.

Another child, a 1-year-old, was taken by authorities and placed into protective custody."

Twenty-two.....broken.....bones. A two month old.

[Penelope]

Boy-- there are some days when I have a hard time reading these types of posts. God bless that little baby.

[fran]

God Bless this little baby and may he/she be free from this type of abuse for the rest of their life.

Unspeakable,

fran

[teonspaleprincess]

God bless this little one. May the monsters that did this be punished in this life and the next.

[Debbie3223]

I dont usually read this part of websleuths... but OMG.. I cant even comprehend it...

I can hardly tell my punkin when shes been wrong..

ugh,,,When are the laws going to change?????

why should anyone like that deserve anything but a long time in jail?...

God Bless the baby and the other child,

[not_my_kids]

This is the kind of thing I will never understand.

Serial murder, I can wrap my head around. War, disease, physics...I can understand these things.

I will never understand how you can break a child's bone and do anything besides just kill yourself afterwards. I can't comprehend the kind of evil that could do that 22 times and still live with themselves afterwards. Still live with each other.

I wonder how long little one had them, how long did they let that baby suffer from the first break to the last?

[Missizzy]

I can't tell you how I'm grasping at straws. I'd love to read that this Momma got those black eyes trying to protect her baby. Probably not, but I'm going to hope and pray. I want these monsters caught but, given their MO, they're probably not a threat to other children.

You are so right, PeteyGirl, about the bones being flexible--otherwise the baby would never squeeze through the birth canal. Let's pray that they also heal quickly and this little one will have no memory (only something fleeting which hopefully good therapy and a loving foster or adoptive home can deal with).

We're certified for special needs foster care. We have four openings. But, I'm in Oregon. Trust me, though, guys, there's some Georgia foster family gearing up as we type to accept two precious babies for Christmas. Let's pray that they'll be the best.

[wonders]

Let me at em! I'll take a sledge hammer to every bone in there bodies.

[kgeaux]

Originally Posted by Missizzy

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22045153/detail.html

"MARIETTA, Ga. -- A Marietta couple was arrested Tuesday after their 2-month-old child was admitted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with 22 broken bones, including a skull fracture.

Another child, a 1-year-old, was taken by authorities and placed into protective custody."

Twenty-two.....broken.....bones. A two month old.

Parents who love and treasure their children, like me and you, can't even understand how someone can hurt a precious newborn like this. 22 broken bones, what is that, 10% of the child's bones have been broken? A newborn's bones are so pliable that it is hard to even comprehend the force that would be necessary to cause this many breaks. I totally do not understand why people (they aren't really parents in the true sense of the word) don't just drop the child off at a safe place: is it pride that makes a parent unable to admit that they cannot love their own child?????

These babies seem to have been born 10 months apart, and I can imagine that is quite stressful for a parent. I just can't make the leap between stress and hurting a newborn.

I hope they NEVER get their hands on these two little angels again. And I hope if they have more babies in the future, the court is standing in the delivery room to take the baby to a safe, loving home.

[kgeaux]

Originally Posted by Missizzy

I can't tell you how I'm grasping at straws. I'd love to read that this Momma got those black eyes trying to protect her baby. Probably not, but I'm going to hope and pray. I want these monsters caught but, given their MO, they're probably not a threat to other children.

You are so right, PeteyGirl, about the bones being flexible--otherwise the baby would never squeeze through the birth canal. Let's pray that they also heal quickly and this little one will have no memory (only something fleeting which hopefully good therapy and a loving foster or adoptive home can deal with).

We're certified for special needs foster care. We have four openings. But, I'm in Oregon. Trust me, though, guys, there's some Georgia foster family gearing up as we type to accept two precious babies for Christmas. Let's pray that they'll be the best.

I know the temptation is to believe that at least one of the parents loved the baby and tried to protect him/her. But I'm not sure mommy's eyes are black. It looks more like "circles" under the eyes, which can result from ill health, heredity, allergies and a host of other reasons.

Bless you for what you do. Our world needs more like you.

[Blue_Dolphin308]

Not saying that I agree with mom or dad, because I certainly don't. HOWEVER with the bruises on moms face, on more then ONE location, it seems like she too is a victim herself. I am glad that she was able to get away and take the baby to the er. But I truely believe she was the victim of Domestic violence. And hence may not have caused any harm to the baby, EXCEPT for not reporting the abuse that the b/f has caused.

I certainly do NOT condone this behaviour to say the least.

[Blue_Dolphin308]

White had a black eye and other facial contusions in her mug shot, indicating she might be a victim of domestic abuse herself. Cobb police removed a 1-year-old child from her home

http://sandrarose.com/2009/12/23/2-m...rents-charged/

[tiredblondy]

I think he looks evil!

[ebbie]

Originally Posted by Ladybass0711

White had a black eye and other facial contusions in her mug shot, indicating she might be a victim of domestic abuse herself. Cobb police removed a 1-year-old child from her home

http://sandrarose.com/2009/12/23/2-m...rents-charged/

Yeah and I like to give her a second black eye for letting her baby get beat up!!! I won't let her off the hook for the child abuse until LE figures out what happened either.

[not_my_kids]

Stress I understand. My oldest and 2nd oldest are just under three years apart. There are 18 months almost to the day between my two sons, and between my second son and the baby, there are 21 months.

That's 4 kids, in seven years, 2 of them with special needs...a total of one broken bone.
My daughter fell out of bed just after her second birthday and snapped her arm. She got turned around and missed the half-rail on her bed. Oops on my part, I was still new at the parenting thing.
I think one of our nurses could confirm that 22 broken bones at one time would usually kill a baby that young, they would probably have to be spaced out or little one would have died of shock. So, even if the mother was being beaten, she had the choice to protect her child at some point.
For Christmas, I'd like to give her another black eye. The Christmas spirit only goes so far.

[Columbo]

It sounds like he beat the bio-mom up--so why is his bond half what hers is?

I agree with tiredblondy, he looks evil!!

[Blue_Dolphin308]

Originally Posted by ebbie

Yeah and I like to give her a second black eye for letting her baby get beat up!!! I won't let her off the hook for the child abuse until LE figures out what happened either.

And if she could not protect the baby because he kept throwing her around then what?? I certainly don't condone the behavior but I would blame the B/F based on the details we have right now. Now if later details come out about how mom abused the child then I would reconsider my position.

Prosecutors have sometimes raised the bail on the victim of domestic violence victim to get her to roll on the abuser. And then plead the victim down to a lesser charge.


I would not jump down moms throat UNLESS you have ALL the evidence, and all the proove that she stood by doing absolutly nothing to protect her child.

[Missizzy]

not_my_kids--I hadn't thought about it until you brought it up but we've raised 18 (with 7 toddlers at the same time) and never (knock on wood) have we ever had a broken bone in the children. I had a broken pelvis from a raging child and we've had a child in casts after leg surgery (she has CP) but no kids with broken bones. And it can't be attributed to our genes as most of us aren't biologically related. And I have risk takers, tantrum throwers, and active athletes too!! And, of course I realize how much of a fluke some breaks can be. We've just been very lucky. I guess there's the issue that we don't pound on our kids or let them hit each other, either.

A while back I worked on an advocacy case for a little guy who had been abused as seriously as this. I hate to even bring it up as it's disgusting. But when the parents would get high, and couldn't deal with the stress of the baby crying, they would throw his body into walls and smack him hard against the floor and furniture. They literally threw him like a rag doll. I believe he was around 4-5 months old at the time.

He survived but was forever effected. His bones did not grow normally and he suffered brain damage. The parents pleaded down and gave up their rights. I read the details when I took his case. The parents had already lost a number of children from various relationships. That really floored me. I remember trying to write briefs for the fair hearing I was doing for him (for services) and I would just shake as I read the details. I've never totally gotten past it.

I'll say it again...relief nurseries. Pull those babies in when they are under threat of death and then try to engage the family and ask questions. We'd save a lot of children and probably keep some adults from committing crimes they never planned to commit.

[Bobbisangel]

Originally Posted by dreamweaver

http://sandrarose.com/2009/12/23/2-m...rents-charged/
more info on parents , if you can call them that,
and the bond for each. Mom's pic shows black eyes

The mother has a lot more charges against her then the creepy father does. I wonder why. He looks like a child beater. Probably thinks he is a real big man too.

It's one thing to beat up on an adult. And it is one thing for the woman to put up with it and stay with him but it is another thing to break the bones of your child or allow another person to do that to your child. They both need to be put away for a long time. Those poor little kids. I wonder what kind of shape the year old child was in.

Judges everywhere need to start sending a message to these beaters. Put them away for a long time. Send that message instead of the one they've been sending for years and years. It's just as easy to put them in prison for a long time as it is to give them a few months.