NC - Girl, 3 months, dead, father charged with murder, Davidson County, 9 August 2019

[imstilla.grandma]

On Wednesday, deputies responded to a 3-month-old reported unconscious and not breathing at 22018 S. NC 109.

Davidson County Sheriff’s criminal investigators determined she died because of physical abuse by her father, Brandon Dean Patton, 30, of Denton.

Patton was arrested and charged with murder and felony child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury.

He was being held without bond.
3-month-old girl dies in Davidson County; father arrested on murder, child abuse charges

 

[scarletstar]

 

[PayrollNerd]

O. M. G. This poor little baby. I wonder if he was abusive to Mom too.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Brooklyn's Angels Facebook post dated 8/30/2019

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=brandon dean patton&epa=SEARCH_BOX

Praying for JUSTICE for baby Alyssa

A North Carolina sheriff’s office says a man is charged with murder in the death of his 3-month-old daughter.

News outlets report the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a home near Denton on Wednesday and found an infant unconscious and not breathing.

Emergency personnel took the baby to a local hospital, where she died of her injuries. According the sheriff’s office, an investigation determined the baby’s death was due to abuse by the father.

The sheriff’s office charged 30-year-old Brandon Dean Patton with murder and child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury. Patton is jailed without bond and it couldn’t be determined on Thursday whether he has an attorney.

 

[oceanblueeyes]

Each morning when I first log in here, I feel such a sense of dread now.

It's almost a given now there will be a new or ongoing thread about another precious child being murdered by their parent or parents or parent, and live in. Just look at how many threads now are open involving murders of totally defenseless children?

I'm so appalled to see more, and more so called moms, and so called dads who are murdering their beautiful children in alarming numbers.

And these are cases we only know about from reading here.

Imo it's happen every where it seems now more than ever. I'm sure many only make the local news.

There is a war being waged against so many of society's children, and their worst enemies are the ones inside of their own home.

Why are so many children's lives seen as having little or no value to the very ones who are suppose to be there to protect them at all cost?

Jmho

 

[PayrollNerd]

Each morning when I first log in here, I feel such a sense of dread now.

It's almost a given now there will be a new or ongoing thread about another precious child being murdered by their parent or parents or parent, and live in. Just look at how many threads now are open involving murders of totally defenseless children?

I'm so appalled to see more, and more so called moms, and so called dads who are murdering their beautiful children in alarming numbers.

And these are cases we only know about from reading here.

Imo it's happen every where it seems now more than ever. I'm sure many only make the local news.

There is a war being waged against so many of society's children, and their worst enemies are the ones inside of their own home.

Why are so many children's lives seen as having little or no value to the very ones who are suppose to be there to protect them at all cost?

Jmho

I agree. I have to go do something else (like prep for tutoring which is a lot of math) to take my mind off all child victims. When you grow up with a front row seat to your mother's Sh*t Show all your life, it just makes you sad and angry to read about others continuing to do the same. Has the younger generation of parents not learned anything? Do they not see that the horror they were subjected to comes back 10 fold in their children's' lives? Do the grandparents not see that coddling their adult children with the instant gratification, I want to be their friend nonsense is enabling and crippling them? I could go on and on. Ugh. Just my opinion as always.

 

[oceanblueeyes]

I agree. I have to go do something else (like prep for tutoring which is a lot of math) to take my mind off all child victims. When you grow up with a front row seat to your mother's **** Show all your life, it just makes you sad and angry to read about others continuing to do the same. Has the younger generation of parents not learned anything? Do they not see that the horror they were subjected to comes back 10 fold in their children's' lives? Do the grandparents not see that coddling their adult children with the instant gratification, I want to be their friend nonsense is enabling and crippling them? I could go on and on. Ugh. Just my opinion as always.

Excellent heartfelt post, PN.

I couldnt agree with you more.

I also grew up with a very abusive father who subjected me to all forms of horrific abuses for many years.

I think one of the things I still wrestle with today at times... even though I have a such a beautiful blessed life, and have for many decades now. Its the not knowing WHY my own mother knew what was happening to me yet she did nothing to protect me even when I begged her to do so.

It is that ultimate betrayal I still cant begin to understand. It's if I was the sacrificial lamb, and appeasing my abusive father was far more of a priority to her than ever protecting her helpless little girl. She passed away in 1987, but sometimes at night, I will still ask her why, but those answers never come.. just like they didn't when she was alive.

I can't ever comprehend any parents not protecting their precious children.


But equally, I also can't comprehend any parent who knows what's happening, and does nothing or even being a main coconspirator in the horrific crimes themselves against their children.

Yet it seems its happening more, and more even now, and the way many of these children are being murdered recently the child's murder is quite often brutal overkills, and barbaric being done by both genders.

Jmho

 

[squareandrabbet]

My (childless) best male friend and I have these discussions all the time. "How could anybody hurt a child or baby? You're supposed to protect them." So there's at least one for the #notallmen column... I don't understand it either. I even watch children at street corners and by train tracks, to make sure they're not going to toddle out of reach of their caregiver and into the stream of danger. ETA: Look at her sweet little face and hands...

https://myfox8.com/2019/08/29/family-releases-photo-of-infant-found-dead-warn-of-fake-gofundme-page/

 

[oceanblueeyes]

My (childless) best male friend and I have these discussions all the time. "How could anybody hurt a child or baby? You're supposed to protect them." So there's at least one for the #notallmen column... I don't understand it either. I even watch children at street corners and by train tracks, to make sure they're not going to toddle out of reach of their caregiver and into the stream of danger. ETA: Look at her sweet little face and hands...

https://myfox8.com/2019/08/29/family-releases-photo-of-infant-found-dead-warn-of-fake-********-page/

The link doesnt work for me.

On the rest of your post, I couldn't agree with you more.

There are millions of fathers who would laydown their own lives in a heartbeat in order to protect their children, including stepfathers or other men who may not have children of their own.

Imo, sometimes we dwell way too much on the negative bad parents, both mom, and dads, and lose sight of all of the millions of other good parents who are out there every day doing the very best they can to be the parents their children deserve.

Thank goodness there are far..far..far...more good people in our country than the bad ones.

These horrid mothers or fathers or live ins do not begin to ever represent or define the majority.

We must never lose sight of that. Many strangers who are males or females have put their own lives in grave danger to save precious children they didn't even know.

Imoo

 

[borndem]

One sad case right after another.
They are just babies. Just little things trying to get along in their own way...
Oh, the "why" of it... Here are some reasons I have seen on various threads...

• Babies cry too much and they are loud
  
• That baby gets all the attention
  
• Somebody has to feed the baby or she cries
  
• Baby food is expensive - where's my beer money now?
  
• My girlfriend is always nursing that baby. What about me?
• You have to change those stinkin' diapers
• I have to turn down the TV so that baby can sleep
• That baby has more clothes than I do
• Forget about sex. It's the baby, the baby, the baby
  
• The baby has to sleep in an expensive crib and he still cries at night
  
• I have to wait until that baby is fed before I get my dinner
  
• He cries when I put him in his crib
  
• All those baby toys. I need new tires.
  
• You have to take 'em to see the doctor to get shots and they cry
  
• Diapers are expensive, and the baby uses a lot of them
• They cry when they should be sleeping
  
• You have to bathe them sometimes and they won't stay still and they cry
  
• I can't take my nap anymore because that baby is crying
  
• I have to put her in a car seat or I'll get arrested when that baby is in the car. Car seats are expensive. I sure didn't have one when I was a baby. I need a new pair of shoes.
  
• They cry and wake you up in the morning -- bad way to start my day
  
• You can't leave 'em alone for very long or they cry
  
• They're hungry all the time
  
• Sometimes they spit up
• They cry and wake you up at night
• They always want to be the center of attention - and they are
  
• I hate all that damm crying
• He won't stay still when I hold him, and he cries
  
• My baby doesn't smile very much, but he sure knows how to cry and fuss
  
• I'm sick and tired of that baby
  
• I don't know of but one way to make him stop crying once and for all...

 

[JerseyGirl]

Patton is being held in jail without bond. He has a court date on September 9.

3-Month-Old Girl Died From Abuse at Hands of Father: Davidson County Sheriff