Friday, November 14, 2008
News Prosecutors File Charges Against Teen Father for Child Abuse
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:33 PM
King County Prosecutors have filed assault charges against a 17-year-old father for allegedly assaulting his two-month-old son.
According to court records, paramedics responded to a 911 call from the 17-year-old on November 9th and took the child to Children's Hospital where staff found the two-month-old had a broken collarbone, 10-15 broken ribs—"not all fresh, some had begun to heal," records says—and two "brain bleeds."
Doctors determined the child had stopped breathing from "being shaken or pushed/thrown into a hard object."
The 17-year-old—who we're not naming because he's a minor—initially denied hurting the child but later told police he had become angry because the child was crying and admitted to shaking him.
Prosecutors are asking the court to try the 17-year-old boy—who has previously been convicted on burglary, drug and trespassing charges—as an adult.
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When I read about babies that were shaken because they cried a lot, I always remember hearing that my dad sometimes had to leave the house when me or my brother cried too much as infants. He at least had the education and upbringing to know how to deal with his frustration. Maybe we should be offering that to the 17-year-old dad, rather than a morning after pill.
So it only matters if the mother wants the kid? I have a feeling there'd be a hellova lot less child abuse cases if BOTH (adult) parents PLANNED & WANTED the child (after having parenting classes and family planning counseling) instead of being the product of two dumb teenagers who were horny and rubbed their privates together without benefit of birth control or condoms. The younger the parents the more likely the child will be abused.
I'm saying this as the daughter of a woman who worked for CPS at one time.
Iam a first time mom and my baby girl is 6 months old...in her first two months of life she cried constantly and there were times, where I was crying with her, that's how frustrated she got me.
I wonder why there are still so many teenage pregnancies happen nowadays.
In the tiome of birthcontrol this is not neccessary!
They are not ready to raise a child or deal with the "problems" which will sooner or later come along. having a criminal backround surely doesn't help.
You cannot tell me, that the mother didn't know about that.....the little one had previous injures...how can i leave my child with someone like that?
Iam praying for the baby that he will survive!!
Thank you for sharing this information though.
We recently wrote an article (http://brainblogger.com/2008/11/07/diagn… ) on child abuse at Brain Blogger (http://brainblogger.com/ ). Child abuse is a very horrible thing and can be devastating to any medical practitioners involved. How can anyone be sure if a child is suffering abuse?
We would like to read your comments on our article. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kelly
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