IL - Newborn beaten by toddler w/ baby bottle

[angarella]

WHERE THE F********************* WAS THE MOTHER OR SOME OTHER ADULT???????????????????????????????






Sorry, just had to get that off of my chest.....

 

[lizzybeth]

Is LE absolutely sure that it was the three year old that injured the baby? There have been cases where the parent has and decided to blame it on another child.

If it was the three year old then he definitely learned this behavior at home.

 

[GlitchWizard]

I "mother" other people's kids ALL the time. The reason is - when there are other adults around, it seems everyone assumes everyone else is watching the kids.

Wrong.

I am constantly amazed at the things I've had to do when no one was watching their kids. I have pulled a neice from in front of a car when the Mom was closer to her than I was when I saw it coming - I brought the girl back to the "group" and NO ONE NOTICED I DID IT! I've grabbed a friend's daughter from an electrical outlet when she was poking it with a metal shishkabob skewer. I've taken 2 total stranger's kids out of the water in the fountain at the mall when they couldn't get out. The most recent was the mother of a kid with cerebal palsey who left his wheelchair parked in direct sunlight on his face on a hot day. He was unable to move his face out of the burning sun. She parked him in a walkway full of people trying to get past him and walked WELL away from him to go buy herself.... sunglasses!

The other surprising thing is - sometimes the parents are so embarassed that they let their child get into something like that, they get angry instead of just being glad the kid is okay. They blame the kid, not themselves. (OR blame me!)

 

[Floh]

Is LE absolutely sure that it was the three year old that injured the baby? There have been cases where the parent has and decided to blame it on another child.

And that was my first thought, lizzybeth!

how is it known the three year-old did this? because the family said so? :waitasec:

 

[Pandora]

I "mother" other people's kids ALL the time. The reason is - when there are other adults around, it seems everyone assumes everyone else is watching the kids.

Wrong.

Me too, Glitch! The crazy thing is--I DON'T HAVE KIDS! I watch them ALL the time! In our last neighborhood, I also watched the cars that drove through, and if I didn't recognize them (and they were driving slowly--gawking), I made a mental note of the description(s) and plates! I don't plan to have children, but I can't believe the people who do have kids and ignore them! Working in retail now, I regularly watch kids whose parents are shopping. One guy was watching a kid in front of the TVs whose parents took off shopping (they left him there figuring he would be entertained!). When the guy noticed me eying him, he took off. Hmmmmm....

 

[Floh]

I "mother" other people's kids ALL the time. The reason is - when there are other adults around, it seems everyone assumes everyone else is watching the kids.

Wrong.

Me too, Glitch! The crazy thing is--I DON'T HAVE KIDS! I watch them ALL the time! In our last neighborhood, I also watched the cars that drove through, and if I didn't recognize them (and they were driving slowly--gawking), I made a mental note of the description(s) and plates! I don't plan to have children, but I can't believe the people who do have kids and ignore them! Working in retail now, I regularly watch kids whose parents are shopping. One guy was watching a kid in front of the TVs whose parents took off shopping (they left him there figuring he would be entertained!). When the guy noticed me eying him, he took off. Hmmmmm....

I don't have children either, but i find myself watching out for them all the time! i'm staggared at some of the situations parents allow their children to wander into. young children, at that.

one comes to mind: i found a toddler hanging over the edge of a platform at a subway station and his mother (?) was some distance away (around 50 ft ?) chatting away with friends, taking no notice of his whereabouts. i hauled that little boy up and carried him over to (clearly) the people he was with, plonked him down and told them what i ruddy well thought of them.

i have no doubt they didn't see the error of their ways and just thought of me as that "crazy English woman".

 

[Mr. E]

I'm sorry if this has been posted. I've just scanned the last posts quickly as I'm at work. I wanted to know if there have been any updates on the baby. I was surprised to hear that s/he was in critical condition. The beating must have lasted quite a bit, or maybe it was a really heavy bottle. (?) I, too, am wondering where the mothers were and what they were doing that they didn't stop the attack sooner. It must have gone on for awhile for the condition to be critical.

 

[Marie]

Is LE absolutely sure that it was the three year old that injured the baby? There have been cases where the parent has and decided to blame it on another child.

Early news reports stated that several young children were attempting to feed the baby. I'm going to assume that LE questioned the children and determined which one did the hitting. But no doubt about it, the adults in this family were extremely neglectful - a 3mo shouldn't be left alone with other children and a 3mo should not be fed without adult supervision.

 

[CarpeDiem]

I can't picture the hostility it would require in the 3 year old to hurt this baby so severly. One wack you can picture but over and over again. That I can't see. Seems to me he had to have seen a child treated like that before, perhaps himself, to react in such a way, IF, he did.

 

[Marie]

I'm sorry if this has been posted. I've just scanned the last posts quickly as I'm at work. I wanted to know if there have been any updates on the baby.

The family reports that the baby is doing well.

 

[southcitymom]

The family reports that the baby is doing well.

Thank goodness!

This is of course not the 3-year-olds fault. I agree with the poster who said that children having children is a recipe for disaster. Seventeen years old and FOUR children - unbelievable.

A 3-month-old can not ever be let out of sight and 3-year-olds need heavy supervision as well. My prayers are with this family. They need help.

 

[Mr. E]

I can't picture the hostility it would require in the 3 year old to hurt this baby so severly. One wack you can picture but over and over again. That I can't see. Seems to me he had to have seen a child treated like that before, perhaps himself, to react in such a way, IF, he did.

I can only imagine that this 3-year-old child has learned that when something doesn't go your way or when you are angry or frustrated, you react with violence. I would not be in the least bit suprised to find out that the child's mother solves her parenting problems with violence. Or that her marriage/relationship is violent, and the child witnesses it.

 

[Kymistry35]

Damn, though; the infant's mom was 17, and has two other kids?!

That is the first thing that jumped out at me also. I do hope that they get this little boy some type of help to deal with anger management. Prayers for the little one.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

Condoms not kids for idiots like this.