AZ - Juanita Buelna, 2, brutally beaten to death, Phoenix, 11 March 2011

MorenoI said:

One suspect, Chris Lopez, admitted he was the one who burned the little girl, saying he was high on meth when he gave her a bath in scalding water

OMG! These disgusting people, WHY WHY WHy??

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/crime/court-documents-child-abuse-3-14-2011

Rodriguez is the child's custodial parent, and Vazquez is her boyfriend. She admitted the baby was in excruciating pain, to the point that she would bang her head agaisnt things and grind her teeth -- and she hadn't been eating very much.

This is going to make me cry This poor little angel, I can't even imagine her pain.

http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Toddlers-Death-Investigation-Reveals-Abuse-117981004.html

http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Police-investigating-toddlers-death-as-a-homicide-117840299.html#

Interview with the birth mother:
http://www.kpho.com/news/27245706/detail.html

Baby showed evidence of shaken baby!
http://shakenbabyandsuddeninfantdeath.blogspot.com/2011/03/sbs-arizona-juanita-rodriguez.html

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They are horrific details that Buelna cannot bear to think about. "She's in better hands now," she said. "And I didn't know whether she was or not, with my mother."

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Buelna then says she, too, was abused by her mother as a child. She describes being beaten with a metal broomstick. Her head bears the scars of old trauma. Those scars will likely become evidence in the case against Juanita. Police asked Buelna to shave her head so they could take photos.

But again, the mother of the children didn't speak against her mother becoming a foster parent for her kids. She wanted to "trust her."

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not_my_kids said:

A rock and a hard place.

Bio mom had three choices:
1. Keep them, when she knew she couldnt, for whatever reason.
2. Surrender them to foster care, and we all know what happens in foster care.
3. Surrender them to her mother, who she hoped (and likely prayed and begged God) that she could trust.

Bio mom is the one that will have to live with the knowledge that she chose wrong.

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jjenny said:

Mom claims her mother (kid's grandma) beat her with a broomstick when she was a child. Then she says she trusted the grandma? I guess poor kid never had a chance.

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not_my_kids said:

And what were the other choices? Just as bad.

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