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Sariah Delafosse

Funeral arrangements set for 3-year-old left in car by Willard Woods
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Funeral arrangements have been set for the 3-year-old girl who died of heat stroke after she was left in a car for nearly 19 hours, and a police investigation that now includes child protective services could take weeks or months.

Visitation for Sariah Delafosse will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday at Heavenly Gates Funeral Home.

The funeral will be 1 p.m. Friday at Impact Ministries on E. 70 Street in Shreveport. She will be buried at Lincoln Cemetery after that service.

Sariah's body was found on July 5 inside a car that was left parked in the driveway outside her Ingleside home. Caddo Parish Coroner Dr. Todd Thoma says the child died of heat stroke.

Shreveport Police are investigating the death, and KSLA News 12 can report that child protective services is involved in the case.

"Actually, we're still in the beginning of the investigation. There are a lot of different things we have to look into," says SPD Detective Rod Demery.

Police are continuing to interview witnesses and collect evidence and say the mother, Krystal Delafosse, is cooperating.

As the investigation continues, the question remains as to whether there will be charges.

Police say Delafosse left Sariah in the parked car, make the discovery as she left for work, and then placed a frantic call to 9-1-1.

When asked about Sariah's manner of death as part of the investigation, heat stroke, Demery says, "The thing that focus on moreso is the manner of death. I think that's the part that comes a little slower." Were there potatoes and onions in the aluminum foil with the niglet?

Asked if charges might be expected, Demery says, "Well, that's probably one of the easiest parts of the investigtion. We don't think about those types of things until everything checks out. We gather up all the parts and present them to the body of people who are experts at it -- that attorneys, the coroner."

An involvement by child protective services might prolong the investigation by weeks or months. That's because it's probably run by a bunch of niggers.

 

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Michael Kingsbury, a 7-year-old with autism, went missing Sunday morning in Northeast Washington and was found dead in a broken-down car on Monday evening.

Police say they checked car four times before finding body of child by Peter Hermann

The alley was Michael Kingsbury’s playground — and his deathbed. For the 32 hours after he climbed down the outside steps from his second-story bedroom and disappeared into Northeast Washington’s Trinidad neighborhood, family, neighbors and police joined in a frantic search for the lost 7-year-old with autism.

But as soon as his body was found lying facedown in the back of his neighbor’s locked, broken-down Nissan Altima on Monday evening, no more than 40 feet from the stairs that were his gateway to the outside, the questions began, although people seemed divided on whom to blame — the police, the politicians or themselves. The niggers are to blame, especially hims mammy!

Michael Kingsbury, a 7-year-old with autism, went missing Sunday morning in Northeast Washington and was found dead in a broken-down car on Monday evening. Hoopty ends niglet's life, what a headline.

Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham said four officers peered inside the beige sedan over the course of the two-day search but saw nothing unusual. It wasn’t until a fifth officer, described as an experienced detective, looked in and saw something peculiar that police broke a window and found the 4-foot-3-inch, 60-pound boy scrunched on the floor behind the passenger seat. Dem niglets sho good at hiding in dark places, knowha'm'say'n.

It was unclear how long Michael had been in the car over two sweltering summer days, and whether he climbed in by himself and locked the doors or was killed and put there. Newsham said the body had no obvious signs of trauma, but would not rule out foul play until autopsy results are known, saying the cause of death is pending. Was he wrapped in aluminum foil with potatoes, carrots and onions?

While some said search efforts fell short, others called the turnout virtually unprecedented in a community they think is too often dismissed because it is crime-ridden and impoverished. The impassioned response seemed to make the outcome all the more tragic. Nobody wants to be around you niggers and nobody cares if one of your sprogs goes missing, knowha'm'say'n.

Everybody everywhere wanted to know one thing Tuesday: “How is it that they didn’t find that boy sooner?” Could be he wasn't done yet?

Evelyn Shaw’s question echoed through the city. She stood in front of the building in which she lives, which is next to Michael’s apartment building. It was her granddaughter’s car in which his body was found. Shaw said it was parked out back awaiting repairs, and she said she thought it was locked after it was moved there June 28.

“Nothing is making sense in all of this,” Shaw said, saying she didn’t even have a key to the vehicle, which lacked license plates.

D.C. Council members, including Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) and Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), chairman of the public safety committee, joined in calling for an internal police review. “If we had searched the cars, would we have found him?” Wells said. “I’m as upset as everyone else, but I won’t jump to any conclusions.”

Vonetta Dumas, a member of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission for Trinidad, posted a lengthy statement on the 5th District’s Internet mailing list, saying that “more could have been done.” Dumas praised police and city officials, but she also lamented that the case “didn’t get the attention it deserved.” More could have been done by hims mammy, but nobody's blaming her, unless she forgot to add salt to her evil stew.

In an interview, Dumas said that residents “need to work on solving the challenges we see in the community, and not rely completely on the police to do everything. . . . In a community that is under-served, people don’t want to pay attention as they should. They turn their eyes because they don’t want to be the one who snitched.” But, she said, had more attention been paid at all levels, “I think we would have found Michael sooner. . . . I just want to see us all do a better job next time.” Don't snitch!

 

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Racine sheboon accused of scalding young son in hot water

RACINE (WITI) — 17-year-old Samadhi Hamilton of Racine is charged in connection with an incident in which she is accused of scalding her child in a hot water bath.

Hamilton faces one count of physical abuse of a child — recklessly causing great bodily harm.

On June 25th, officials responded to an apartment on Boyd Avenue in Racine and discovered a child had suffered severe first and second degree burns.

The criminal complaint in the case indicates Hamilton told officials she tried to give her son a bath in the kitchen sink, at which time he began to cry. Hamilton then said she went for a walk , and when she returned home, she noticed the child was red and peeling — according to the criminal complaint.

Officials say Hamilton was unable to give a sufficient history surrounding the events leading up to or during the time her son was burned, according to the complaint.

The criminal complaint in the case says the child had an appointment later on June 25th, and that Hamilton called the doctor’s office to cancel the appointment, without giving a reason for the cancellation.

An investigator said in order for an infant to be instantly scalded, the water temperature must reach 150-155 degrees. When the water was tested at the Boyd Avenue apartment, the water temperature was determined to be 169 degrees — well above the instant scalding temperature — according to the criminal complaint.

If convicted, Hamilton could face no more than 15 years in prison and/or no more than $50,000 in fines.

 

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Gregory 'Black as Night' Crawford

Infant found in hot car, father charged Catherine Rogers

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) - Williamsburg Police responded to the area of Nassau Street and Prince George Street Tuesday morning for a call about an infant left in a hot car.

Parking enforcement personnel discovered the 10-month-old female infant alone in a vehicle that was not running, around 11 a.m. When officers arrived, the baby was sweating, crying and initially appeared to be in some distress, according to Major Greg Riley with the WPD.

The infant's father returned to the vehicle within minutes of the child being discovered and was identified as 24-year-old Gregory Crawford of James City County. Crawford was arrested and charged with felony child neglect before he was transported to the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, where he was held on a $3,000 bond.

The baby did not need medical attention after the incident and was released to her mother at the scene.

 

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http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/mom-sets-daughters-head-fire-trying-treat-head-lic/nY9Gg/

Updated: 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | Posted: 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Mom lights daughter on fire trying to treat lice
Girl suffered 2nd, 3rd degree burns over 60% of her body

HAILEYVILLE, Okla. —

A Pittsburg County mother is behind bars.

She is accused of lighting her daughter on fire while trying to treat head lice back in January.

Investigators tell KRMG that 25-year-old Shana Suggs poured gasoline on her daughter's head.

A nearby space heater caught the 5-year-old girl as well as Suggs on fire.

Offender Name: SHANA SUGGS
Offender ID:
69791
Date of Birth:
09/08/1987
Age:
25
Race:
African American
Gender:
Female

Custody Status:
In Custody
Location of Offender:
Pittsburg County Sheriff's Office

 

[Gman]

Plenty of negritude in this video on a recent ghetto lobster. Booness detective, boon chief of da police, boons aplenty. LOL, boons cook their sprogs all the time and yet everyone gets all worked up over it. They are all still cannibals at heart.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=995_1299281260&comments=1

 

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http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/...in_him_scalding_bath_does.html#incart_m-rpt-1

For Hamilton toddler, burns' effects will linger for lifetime as dad who put him in scalding bath does six years
updated August 11, 2013 at 9:16 PM

HAMILTON — Selah Brown recently played with two of his cousins at a park on Nottingham Way in Hamilton, climbing on a play set, riding a stationary bicycle and tossing an Elmo doll high into the air to see if he could get it stuck in a tree.

“He’s just a regular 4-year-old. He likes to do what 4-year-olds do best,” his mother Dedra Brown said. “He gives me a heart attack sometimes.”

But on Wednesday, two weeks after his fourth birthday, Selah was in a hospital in Boston undergoing skin graft surgery, one of many treatments he has received since he was severely burned as a 2-year-old.

It’s a surgery he will have many times until he stops growing, his mother said, explaining that scar tissue doesn’t stretch, and constant medical care will be required until he reaches adult size.

“Each time he grows he has to keep going back,” Brown said. “When he grows, the skin he has now, it doesn’t grow.”

On June 18, 2011, when Selah was 2, he was taken to visit his father, Beau Holder, in Trenton to celebrate Father’s Day. The father should have been under supervision, Superior Court Judge Thomas Sumners has said. But the child was left entirely in Holder’s care, and something terrible happened.

“Apparently his father placed him in the bathtub filled with scalding hot water,” his mother said. Selah suffered second- and third-degree burns over 65 percent of his body. The recovery and related treatments will overshadow much of his young life; while Brown must scramble to raise the necessary funds for his care.

Holder pleaded guilty in June to second-degree endangerment of a child and earlier this month was sentenced to six years in prison. His lawyer has said Holder never intended to hurt the boy.

“To Miss Brown, to the Brown family, to my son: I am sorry,” Holder said in a court appearance Aug. 2.

Dedra Brown said she is unhappy with the plea agreement and Holder should be locked up for longer. “He needs more time,” she said.

At the sentencing, Sumners said the six-year term followed the sentencing guidelines for the second-degree charge. A charge of aggravated assault was dropped in exchange for Holder’s guilty plea.

Despite finding Holder guilty of endangerment, Sumners acknowledged he “had some mental flaws that would affect his ability to properly care for his son.”

The judge said no ruling can change what happened to Selah.

“There is no resolution in this case that would make anybody any better,” Sumners said. “The acts committed against him were disgusting and unconscionable.”

 

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Joscilin Smith and Aaron Roland

Couple Jailed After Scorching 4-Year-Old With Boiling Water, Refusing Medical Care

Mesa, AZ (The Weekly Vice) - Joscilin Smith, 28, and Aaron Roland, 29, have been jailed after they allegedly scorched their son with a pot of boiling water - then refused to get the boy medical treatment for his severe burns.

According to police, Smith and Roland were involved in a heated argument late last month when Smith picked up a pot of boiling water and tried to burn Roland with it.

Smith succeeded in burning Roland, however a large amount of the boiling water landed on the couple's 4-year-old son - leaving him with severe burns to his arms, legs and back.

The boy also suffered 2nd-degree burns to 8% of his body, according to court documents.

Investigators say Roland sought medical treatment for himself the same day, but neither parent wanted to take the child to a hospital, fearing they would be charged with child abuse and possibly lose custody of their seven children.

The child's injuries reportedly came to light Friday when an officer dropped by the residence to conduct a welfare check on the boy. Initially, Smith and Roland told the officer that the boy was away visiting relatives.

When the officer checked the residence anyway, the boy was found hidden inside a closet. The boy was transported to a local hospital where he was treated for burns that hadn't received medical care for 14 days.

Smith was booked into jail and charged with aggravated assault and three counts of child abuse.

Roland was booked into jail and charged with one count of child abuse.

 

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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/08/19/woman-burned-with-hot-coffee-in-fight-at-perkins/

Woman Burned With Hot Coffee In Fight At Perkins
August 19, 2013 8:35 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police are investigating after a woman was seriously burned with hot coffee during a fight at a local Perkins restaurant.

Authorities were called to the Perkins at 1544 University Ave. in St. Paul around 3 a.m. Saturday, regarding a fight in the bathroom.

Upon arrival, they found the victim, Chnika Blair, of St. Paul, with second- and third-degree burns over approximately 7 percent of her body.

St. Paul Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Paulos says Blair got into a fight with several women in the bathroom. During the fight, Sgt. Paulos says one of the suspects allegedly told the victim “You’re going to burn,” just before pouring hot coffee on the her upper back and upper buttocks area.

Sha’Tara Carpenter, of St. Paul, resisted officers but was eventually arrested.

http://www.bustedmugshots.com/minnesota/st-paul/shatara-jonise-carpenter/117802861

Name: Shatara Jonise Carpenter

 

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Joshua Louis Jefferson

BCPD officer spots unresponsive child in hot car, father arrested by Carolyn Roy

What started out as an investigation into an illegally parked vehicle Wednesday afternoon, resulted in the arrest of a Shreveport man for leaving his 3-year old son alone in a hot car.

Just after 3 p.m. Wednesday, Bossier City police officer was patrolling the parking lot of the Louisiana Boardwalk near the Anna's Linens store when he noticed a car illegally parked in a handicapped spot with the driver's door window rolled down. Upon approaching the car, the officer says he found a small boy unresponsive and breathing in the rear seat.

The officer removed the boy from the car and carried him to a shaded area while attempting to revive the child and called for the fire department. A check with the National Weather Service at the time showed the temperature in Bossier City at 94 degrees.

The boy became responsive after a few minutes and was treated at the scene by fire department personnel. While police were on the scene, the boy's father, Joshua Louis Jefferson, 26, of Shreveport walked up. An investigation found Jefferson had parked the car and left his son inside it while he went to pick up his paycheck at a Louisiana Boardwalk restaurant where he worked.

Jefferson was arrested and charged with child desertion and booked into the Bossier City Jail. He was also issued a handicapped parking ticket. The child was released to the custody of a family member.

 

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/baby_left_to_die_in_hot_car_dv5AKXilU68D6EV5lNBSXI

LI infant left to die in sweltering car: cops
By LIA EUSTACHEWICH and BRUCE GOLDING
Last Updated: 6:03 AM, August 22, 2013
Posted: 1:41 AM, August 22, 2013

A Long Island man with a history of drug arrests left his baby boy to die inside a parked car where the temperature reached at least 119 degrees, cops said yesterday.

Devon Fenner, 25, was also found with a “misdemeanor” amount of marijuana after the incident on Tuesday in Hempstead, and cops said they’re investigating whether he was high at the time.

Fenner told detectives he forgot to take 7-month-old son Dominick out of the 2003 Toyota after dropping off his girlfriend at work and taking two other kids they’re raising to day care.

Fenner claimed the baby was in the car for only about 30 minutes, but cops didn’t get a 911 call reporting that the boy wasn’t breathing until about 1:40 p.m., according to Nassau County cops Department.

Cops and EMTs tried to revive the niglet using CPR, but he was pronounced dead less than an hour later at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre.

Nassau Police Inspector Kenneth Lack said an autopsy results were pending, but that the boy’s death was “possibly” due to the heat inside the vehicle.

“I believe one window was cracked, but unfortunately, cracking a window on a 90-degree day doesn’t do much,” Inspector Kenneth Lack said during a news conference.

Fenner, who was charged with criminally negligent homicide, has five prior arrests since 2004 on charges including possession of marijuana, possession of a gun and trespassing. He was released on $50,00 bond after pleading not guilty at his arraignment yesterday.

He and several relatives refused to comment.

In addition to the dead boy, Fenner is the father of two other sons, ages 7 and 8, with his girlfriend and another woman, respectively.

The two youngest boys were being raised by Fenner and his girlfriend, along with her 4-year-old daughter from another relationship.

Fenner’s Facebook page, with the user name NUM1GANGSTER05, boasts “(Ladiesluvme)” under his real name and features a picture of him flipping the bird.

 

[The Bobster]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Mom-Charged-After-Baby-Found-in-Hot-Car-221477731.html

Mom Charged After Baby Found in Hot Car
By Lauren DiSanto and David Chang | Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 | Updated 10:53 AM EDT

A Philadelphia mom is facing charges after her baby is found alone inside a hot car in a Walmart parking lot.

Jasmin Ingram, 24, was arraigned last night. Ingram is charged with endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

On Monday, Ingram's 1-year-old daughter was found locked in a car outside a Northeast Philadelphia Walmart on the 9700 block of Roosevelt Boulevard.

Police suspect the girl was alone inside the car for half an hour.

A passerby heard the child's cries for help. "She's screaming and she's yelling," Lopez said. "She's sweating really bad. It's hot and the windows are up."

Lopez and his wife called police and tried to get help from inside the store. They then tried to break into the locked car themselves.

"I panicked," Lopez said. "I went into my truck, grabbed a bat and tried to break the window."

Police soon arrived and rescued the baby. She was taken to a local hospital where she was examined.

Officials say the child is now in the care of her biological father.

Ingram will appear in court again on October 1.

 

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http://www.8newsnow.com/story/23409127/henderson-police-probe-car-fire-that-burned-boy

Mother Arrested After Car Fire That Burned Son
Posted: Sep 11, 2013 7:38 PM PST Updated: Sep 12, 2013 3:50 PM PST

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- Henderson police have arrested the mother of an 11-year-old who investigators say was burned torching a van on her instructions. The woman told detectives she was behind on her payments.

Jail records show that 30-year-old Juanita Denise Carr was being held Thursday at the Henderson city jail pending a court appearance on arson, conspiracy and child abuse causing substantial bodily harm charges.

City spokeswoman Nicole Johnson says Carr learned that her son and an 18-year-old acquaintance took the van during the weekend and left it near Sam Boyd Stadium.

Carr is accused of driving the two to a gas station early Tuesday, buying a gas can and gasoline, and telling the 11-year-old to douse the van and set it afire. The boy's clothes caught fire. Carr put out the fire on her son and then drove him to a nearby gas station to summon an ambulance.

The boy was taken to the University Medical Center Pediatric Burn Unit. He suffered non life-threatening injuries.

Detectives are still looking for the 18-year-old acquaintance to interview him.

 

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http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Mesquite-daycare-sued-after-two-year-old-is-burned-224501731.html

Mesquite daycare sued, employee arrested after two-year-old is burned
Posted on September 19, 2013 at 10:25 PM

Surveillance video shows a two-year-old spanked and left alone after he had an accident in his pants. Johnnie Brown, a former employee of the Lil Rascals Learning Center is also accused of scalding him with water so hot it left him with third-degree burns.

 

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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/...rning-Son-With-Hot-Iron-Cops--226005341.html?

Mother Arrested for Burning Son With Hot Iron: Cops
School officials noticed the burns when the boy asked for a Band-Aid to cover his injury.
Tuesday, Oct 1, 2013 | Updated 2:46 PM EDT

A woman was arrested after her 11-year-old son told a school official he had been burned with a hot iron, the Miramar Police said.

The boy, who attends Pines Middle School, asked for a Band-Aid to cover his shoulder and school officials noticed his burns, police said.

When the boy was asked to explain his injury, he said his mother Glendese Williams had burned him with a hot iron while he was ironing his school clothes, police said.

“His mother entered the room and began arguing with him about the incident in school at which time she took the clothes iron and pressed it against his right arm,” Miramar Police said.

The boy was taken to the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, where he was diagnosed with first and second degree burns, police said.

The boy also told police that his mother used a belt, leaving marks on his lower left leg, to discipline him for another incident in school, authorities said.

 

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http://www.thv11.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=282735

Ashley Burch charged battery, child endangerment
10:29 AM, Oct 9, 2013

CONWAY, Ark. (KTHV) - A child is severely burned in Conway and police believe the woman she called "mom" is to blame.

Conway police arrested Ashley Burch, 29, Tues. Oct. 8 following an investigation into how a 6-year-old girl in her care got severe burns on her stomach and legs.

The child was taken to the hospital Monday with second-degree burns. Police say the child told hospital personnel that she got the burns after falling into a ditch on the way home from school, but the child later said Burch, the woman she calls mom, poured boiling hot water on her as punishment.

Burch denies the allegations. The child is now recovering in the hospital.

Burch is not the child's mother. She lived with the girl and the girl's biological mother.

 

[da dog]

Terrance Edwards

Kendra Murphy

Groveton PD: Boyfriend scalded 3-year-old while mom high on meth by Gary Bass

GROVETON, TX (KTRE) -
Groveton Police officers arrested a couple after the man allegedly dunked a 3-year-old boy in a bathtub full of scalding water Saturday afternoon for "pooping in his diaper," causing first- and second-degree burns to the child's buttocks and genitals

The woman told police that she coming down from a meth high and was lying on the couch when she heard the sounds of a scuffle and running water from the other room. However, she didn't get up to investigate.

The Groveton Police Department arrested Terrance Edwards, 33, for injury to a child, which is a first-degree felony. Kendra Murphy, 25, was charged with failure to report a felony, which is a Class A misdemeanor. While Murphy has since posted bail and was released from jail Sunday, Edwards was still in jail as of Wednesday afternoon.

According to Groveton Police Chief John Raiford, an ambulance was dispatched out to an apartment complex in Devine Street at approximately 3 p.m. Saturday in reference to a child with severe burns on his buttocks and genitals.

Raiford said Officer Shane Sandifer worked with deputy from the Trinity County Sheriff's Office who went to the hospital to take the initial report, according to the arrest affidavit. While the TCSO deputy was there, he saw the burns on the boy's rear end and privates. In addition, the 3-year-old boy had bruising all over his body and a swollen left eye.

A Child Protective Services investigator started question Murphy about what had happened, and authorities learned that a 2-year-old girl was involved as well, according to the arrest affidavit. The girl had bruises between her legs and all over her body.

According to the arrest affidavit, Murphy said in a written statement that every time her kids do something wrong, Edwards, her boyfriend, "whoops" them with a paddle, a belt, or his hand. She said that on Halloween night, she lay down with her kids to go to sleep. The affidavit said Edwards got home around 5.a.m. the next morning.

Murphy said that she fell asleep on the couch because she and Edwards had been smoking meth, and the kids were up eating candy, the affidavit stated. She said that he turned on the bath water because the 3-year-old boy had "pooped in his diaper."

"Murphy stated that [Edwards] thought the water was not hot," the affidavit stated.

The affidavit also stated that Murphy didn't report the child's injuries until a neighbor noticed the child walking strangely and called 911 at approximately 3 p.m. Saturday.

Raiford said the boy was taken to the Shriner's Burn Center in Galveston for treatment of his burns. In addition to the burns from the hot water, the little boy also had a lacerated liver, internal bleeding, and cigarette burns on his body. Raiford said the 3-year-old boy was up and walking around, and that it appears that he is going to be OK.

The boy and his 2-year-old sister were released into the custody of their great-grandmother, Raiford said.

Raiford said the TCSO assisted his department with the case. The matter is still under investigation, and more criminal charges could be pending.

 

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/father-arrested-after-child-burned/nbkZr/

Posted: 10:34 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013

Father arrested after child burned

DAYTON —

A Dayton father is in jail after his 2-year-old son was hospitalized for the second time in two weeks.

Darius Watson, 24, is facing a possible felony charge of child endangering.

According to a Dayton police report, Watson's brought his son to Dayton Children's Hospital on Wednesday with burns on his back. When the boy's mother arrived that afternoon she became enraged with Watson and they began fighting in the lobby, prompting the hospital staff to call police. Hospital personnel then informed police that they were treating the couple's child burned by an unknown source.

It was the second time police had been called to the hospital in two weeks to investigate possible abuse of the boy.

On Oct. 30, officers observed the boy there while he was being treated for suspicious marks on his legs. His mother said the marks occurred while he was staying with Watson and his girlfriend.

Montgomery County Children's Services was called to investigate and Watson was not arrested or charged, according to a police report.

The boy's mother told police on Wednesday that she allowed the boy to stay with Watson again this week because the caseworker told her the marks on the toddlers legs were just a rash and that they were dropping the abuse investigation.

 

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http://www.fox16.com/story/lr-man-c...-of-infant-son/d/story/7VC6ia2cy0GyvNrMkaDQKg


11/08/2013 11:18 AM

LR Man Charged with Murder after Death of Infant Son

LITTLE ROCK, AR -- A man has been charged with murder after a medical examiner determined that injuries to his infant son were inflicted intentionally.

The Little Rock Police Department (LRPD) says 23-year-old Joseph Johnson, Sr. turned himself in after learning there was a warrant for his arrest in connection to the death of his 1-year-old son, Joseph Johnson, Jr.

Officers responded to Chimney Rock place on June 3 around 9:30 p.m., where Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) informed them that nearly half of the infant's body was covered in second and third-degree burns from hot water, according to LRPD.

Johnson reportedly told police that since he was always working, he'd never given his son a bath and he wanted to help out while his wife was away, so he decided to bathe him, but the boy started screaming when Johnson put him in the bathtub, unaware that the water was too hot.

Although MEMS told the responding officer in the initial report that the infant did not have any life-threatening injuries, he was airlifted to Arkansas Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead more than two weeks later.

 

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http://www.kcci.com/news/central-io...ned/-/9357080/22963644/-/n4wkymz/-/index.html

VIDEO AT LINK


Police investigate after child badly burned
Father's girlfriend says child burned after dishwasher accident
UPDATED 6:23 AM CST Nov 14, 2013

DES MOINES, Iowa —A 2-year-old child was burned badly while he was being watched by his father’s girlfriend.

Police are looking into the incident as a possible case of abuse. Police said things are not adding up and there is little chance that a burn this bad could be an accident.

Chavia Taylor could not hold back her tears when thinking about the pain her son went through. The child, Tavion Moore, returned Wednesday from Iowa City’s burn unit where he was treated for second- and third-degree burns on his hands. Doctors said the burns are consistent with scolding water or oil.

“Typically those kinds of injuries are definitely evidence of some sort of abuse situation,” said Sgt. Steve Woody of Des Moines police.

Authorities are not sure what happened to Tavion, but said they know the incident took place inside a Des Moines home Sunday when the father’s girlfriend was watching him.

Tavion’s father came home to find his son screaming in pain.

“We were unable to determine any feasible way that injury would have occurred without the assistance of an adult,” Woody said.

The burns were so severe that skin was falling off the toddler’s hand.

The 19-year-old girlfriend told police it was an accident involving the dishwasher; however, Tavion’s family doubts the story.

“I believe his hand was held either under extremely hot water or he was burnt with grease,” said grandmother Crystal Williams.

Police are continuing to investigate, but have not filed charges.

Tavion will go back to Iowa City several times each week to get treatment for his hand. He may also have surgery to receive skin grafts.