Dad DUSTIN LAUENER has been charged with 1st-degree assault for violently shaking his 2-month-old son. These kinds of injuries are more often called abusive head trauma these days, and the research consistently shows that fathers are the major perpetrators.
http://kezi.com/news/local/196547
Injured Baby's Father Arrested
December 1, 2010
By Stacia Kalinoski
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- A Springfield infant is still hospitalized four days after police say his father abused him.
Springfield police arrested the father Tuesday afternoon on a charge of first-degree assault.
Springfield Police Sergeant David Lewis says the infant's mother and father took him to McKenzie-Willamette on Sunday where staff called police because of the baby's injuries.
Sgt. Lewis says medical information led them to arrest Dustin Lauener, 21, of Springfield.
The baby's injuries were so severe, the two-month-old had to be transferred to Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland.
A relative of the suspect says the infant has since been transferred to another children's hospital, and says the baby is doing better.
She says the incident was an accident, but while Sgt. Lewis won't yet release what the injuries entail, he says the hospital reports it's consistent with the baby being shaken.
"It's about 50-50 with these injuries sometimes, and then there's always complications down the road with their quality of life," said Sgt. David Lewis, Springfield Police.
"You have to shake a baby very hard for that brain to move inside that head...You don't get accidentally injured this way. To cause the type of damage you have to be very violent to do this kind of shaking. I mean, this type of shaking is a violent act," said Nancy Bischofs, Healthy Start Program Manager.
Bischofs says just a few years ago, shaking babies wasn't always recognized as child abuse.
Lane County DHS District Manager John Radich says there are usually fewer than 10 of these cases a year, so few the agency doesn't track them.
Bischofs says if babies survive this type of abuse, known as Shaken Baby Syndrome, they often suffer brain damage, blindness, seizures, or severe behavioral problems.
Sergeant Lewis says the mother of the child is in Portland with her son.
Investigators don't think she had any role in the injuries.
Lauener is lodged at the Lane County Jail.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Dad admits throwing 3-year-old son off bridge, but claims "demons" made him do it (Baltimore, Maryland)
We've posted on this case many times, but notice the mental health spin on it now. "Demons" made dad STEPHEN NELSON throw his 3-year-old son off a bridge. Bullsh**. If you have followed the story carefully over the past two years, you know that this is a classic abuser daddy who murdered his kid so as to get his way (and punish the mother) in a custody "dispute."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/01/Father-admits-throwing-boy-3-off-bridge/UPI-85381291238308/
Father admits throwing boy, 3, off bridge
Published: Dec. 1, 2010 at 4:18 PM
BALTIMORE, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Baltimore man is facing 50 years in prison after admitting he threw his 3-year-old son off the Key Bridge in 2008.
Second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death convictions could each mean 30-year jail terms for Stephen Nelson but Judge Charles Peters agreed to limit the term when Nelson pleaded guilty Tuesday, the Baltimore Sun reported.
"It gives me a whole lot of closure, a whole lot," said the boy's mother, Natisha Johnson. Prosecutors gave her a veto over the deal, said Julie Drake of the state's attorney's office.
Nelson had claimed that "demons" made him kill his child, Turner.
"The most important factor was to assure that the defendant be committed to the Department of Corrections and not the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene," Drake said.
Nelson tried to take his own life after killing his son, and the defense planned a psychiatric defense, but both sides said he was competent to make the plea.
Nelson was watching the boy on Feb. 3, 2008, and was supposed to return him to Johnson that night.
He called her, saying, "Me and Turner aren't coming home. We're going to die tonight."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/01/Father-admits-throwing-boy-3-off-bridge/UPI-85381291238308/
Father admits throwing boy, 3, off bridge
Published: Dec. 1, 2010 at 4:18 PM
BALTIMORE, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Baltimore man is facing 50 years in prison after admitting he threw his 3-year-old son off the Key Bridge in 2008.
Second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death convictions could each mean 30-year jail terms for Stephen Nelson but Judge Charles Peters agreed to limit the term when Nelson pleaded guilty Tuesday, the Baltimore Sun reported.
"It gives me a whole lot of closure, a whole lot," said the boy's mother, Natisha Johnson. Prosecutors gave her a veto over the deal, said Julie Drake of the state's attorney's office.
Nelson had claimed that "demons" made him kill his child, Turner.
"The most important factor was to assure that the defendant be committed to the Department of Corrections and not the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene," Drake said.
Nelson tried to take his own life after killing his son, and the defense planned a psychiatric defense, but both sides said he was competent to make the plea.
Nelson was watching the boy on Feb. 3, 2008, and was supposed to return him to Johnson that night.
He called her, saying, "Me and Turner aren't coming home. We're going to die tonight."
Custodial dad gets 1-4 years in prison for torturing 7-year-old son (Las Vegas, Nevada)
We posted on this case yesterday, when it was made clear that dad ROB BASSETT was custodial during the time he abused his 7-year-old son. Well, that fact has already been erased, as you can see here. This monster tortured this kid: sexually abused him, destroyed his health, forced him to use/sell meth for him--and all he gets is 1-4 years in prison. The boy is now living with his mother--which, of course, begs the question. If she's safe for him to live with now, who gave this methhead custody to begin with and why? What's the name of the judge who made this brilliant decision?
http://www.necn.com/12/01/10/Vegas-boy-testifies-father-forced-him-to/landing_health.html?&blockID=3&apID=82eccecb39d74ec0a9467678b66cc680
Vegas boy testifies father forced him to use meth
Dec 1, 2010 6:18pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge refused probation to a Las Vegas man whose 7-year-old son testified he was forced to use methamphetamine.
Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon instead sentenced Rob Bassett to one to four years in prison.
Bassett's son testified Tuesday that his father taught him to use drugs, even lighting a meth pipe for him.
Bassett pleaded guilty in July to one felony count of child abuse and neglect. He says he did drugs in front of his son, but denies forcing the boy to ingest meth.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday that Bassett and his son both tested positive for meth in 2008.
Bassett's son testified his teeth and lungs are damaged from constant drug use. He also said his father made him sell drugs.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com/
http://www.necn.com/12/01/10/Vegas-boy-testifies-father-forced-him-to/landing_health.html?&blockID=3&apID=82eccecb39d74ec0a9467678b66cc680
Vegas boy testifies father forced him to use meth
Dec 1, 2010 6:18pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge refused probation to a Las Vegas man whose 7-year-old son testified he was forced to use methamphetamine.
Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon instead sentenced Rob Bassett to one to four years in prison.
Bassett's son testified Tuesday that his father taught him to use drugs, even lighting a meth pipe for him.
Bassett pleaded guilty in July to one felony count of child abuse and neglect. He says he did drugs in front of his son, but denies forcing the boy to ingest meth.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday that Bassett and his son both tested positive for meth in 2008.
Bassett's son testified his teeth and lungs are damaged from constant drug use. He also said his father made him sell drugs.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com/
Dad gets acquitted for manslaughter--after he admits throwing 4-month-old daughter and killing her (Olympia, Washington)
Dad COREY SNYDER ADMITS he threw his 4-month-old daughter in the air and then "dropped" her on her head. The baby died of a brain hemorrhage. But Daddy walks away with no consequences. Words fail...
Assuming this is even true--and that he didn't "deliberately" hurt her, that he's just a freaking moron--do you think a mother would be acquitted for this kind of "roughhousing?" If you read news accounts like this often enough, it's striking how often daddies get a "boys will be boys" pass on this sort of thing. And yet we're continually told that men are just as nurturing as women. Well, which is it?
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_baby_death_acquittal.html
Wash. father acquitted in baby's death
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Thurston County Superior Court jury has acquitted a 21-year-old Olympia, Wash., man of manslaughter in his 4-month-old daughter's death last May. Corey Snyder told authorities he had been throwing little Kylie Marie Snyder in the air and catching her when he dropped the child on her head.
Defense lawyer Jeff Robinson of Seattle called the jury's Wednesday verdict appropriate. He says there was no evidence Snyder "had any clue he was putting his baby in danger of dying." Robinson says there also was no evidence presented at trial that the infant was ever the victim of child abuse.
The Thurston County prosecutor didn't charge Snyder until late August, about three months after the child's death at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The King County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, saying it was caused by a brain hemorrhage and blunt-force injuries.
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Information from: The Olympian, http://www.theolympian.com
Assuming this is even true--and that he didn't "deliberately" hurt her, that he's just a freaking moron--do you think a mother would be acquitted for this kind of "roughhousing?" If you read news accounts like this often enough, it's striking how often daddies get a "boys will be boys" pass on this sort of thing. And yet we're continually told that men are just as nurturing as women. Well, which is it?
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_baby_death_acquittal.html
Wash. father acquitted in baby's death
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Thurston County Superior Court jury has acquitted a 21-year-old Olympia, Wash., man of manslaughter in his 4-month-old daughter's death last May. Corey Snyder told authorities he had been throwing little Kylie Marie Snyder in the air and catching her when he dropped the child on her head.
Defense lawyer Jeff Robinson of Seattle called the jury's Wednesday verdict appropriate. He says there was no evidence Snyder "had any clue he was putting his baby in danger of dying." Robinson says there also was no evidence presented at trial that the infant was ever the victim of child abuse.
The Thurston County prosecutor didn't charge Snyder until late August, about three months after the child's death at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The King County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, saying it was caused by a brain hemorrhage and blunt-force injuries.
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Information from: The Olympian, http://www.theolympian.com
Dad arrested for beating infant son; baby has severe head injuries (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)
This time dad WALDEMAR KOMINSKI is the accused. Of course he was home alone and watching the baby at the time. No mention of the mother.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT.
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/blackstone/father-accused-of-beating-infant-son
Father accused of beating infant son
Police: Baby suffered severe head injuries
Updated: Thursday, 02 Dec 2010, 1:32 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 02 Dec 2010, 12:25 PM EST
Melissa Sardelli
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) - A Pawtucket father is arrested, accused of beating his infant son.
Police say the baby suffered severe head injuries back on November 1st when his father was home alone watching him.
Police issued an arrest warrant for the boy's father, 39 year-old, Waldemar Kaminski of Littlefield Street on November 18. He is being charged with first degree child abuse.
Kaminski was finally arrested on December 1.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT.
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/blackstone/father-accused-of-beating-infant-son
Father accused of beating infant son
Police: Baby suffered severe head injuries
Updated: Thursday, 02 Dec 2010, 1:32 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 02 Dec 2010, 12:25 PM EST
Melissa Sardelli
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) - A Pawtucket father is arrested, accused of beating his infant son.
Police say the baby suffered severe head injuries back on November 1st when his father was home alone watching him.
Police issued an arrest warrant for the boy's father, 39 year-old, Waldemar Kaminski of Littlefield Street on November 18. He is being charged with first degree child abuse.
Kaminski was finally arrested on December 1.
Dad arrested for beating 3-month-old son (Eloy, Arizona)
Dad NICANOR RONQUILLO has been arrested for beating his 3-month-old son over the weekend.
http://trivalleycentral.com/articles/2010/12/02/eloy_enterprise/top_stories/doc4cf6bcd159b7a552405269.txt
21-year-old father arrested for beating 3-month-old
Staff Reports
Published: Thursday, December 2, 2010 5:15 AM MST
Eloy Police arrested a 21-year-old Eloy man this past Monday in connection with injuries his young child sustained over the weekend.
After a 3-month-old child was rushed to the hospital with significant facial trauma last Saturday, Nov. 27, staff at the Casa Grande Regional Medical Center contacted Eloy Police about possible child abuse.
Due to the extent of the child’s injuries, the child was then flown to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital for further evaluation. Forensic doctors were able to confirm the injuries sustained by the child were the result of non-accidental trauma. As a result of the investigation the child’s father, Nicanor Ronquillo, 21, was charged with one count of child abuse and booked into the Pinal County Jail in Florence.
The child is currently at home recovering under the mother’s care.
http://trivalleycentral.com/articles/2010/12/02/eloy_enterprise/top_stories/doc4cf6bcd159b7a552405269.txt
21-year-old father arrested for beating 3-month-old
Staff Reports
Published: Thursday, December 2, 2010 5:15 AM MST
Eloy Police arrested a 21-year-old Eloy man this past Monday in connection with injuries his young child sustained over the weekend.
After a 3-month-old child was rushed to the hospital with significant facial trauma last Saturday, Nov. 27, staff at the Casa Grande Regional Medical Center contacted Eloy Police about possible child abuse.
Due to the extent of the child’s injuries, the child was then flown to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital for further evaluation. Forensic doctors were able to confirm the injuries sustained by the child were the result of non-accidental trauma. As a result of the investigation the child’s father, Nicanor Ronquillo, 21, was charged with one count of child abuse and booked into the Pinal County Jail in Florence.
The child is currently at home recovering under the mother’s care.
Father, step charged with torturing, starving, locking up 2-year-old daughter (Nhlangano, Swaziland)
UNNAMED DAD and step are truly sicko puppies. It's not always easy to tell in newspaper articles who had custody, and in Africa especially, custody arrangements tend to be informal. But it's more than clear that some sort of coercion was involved by the father in keeping this child in his home--with no intent other than torturing the child and tormenting her mother with his vicious mind games.
http://www.times.co.sz/index.php?news=23573
Family tortures, locks up, starves girl (2) for 8 days
By SIZWE MAZIYA on December 02,2010
NHLANGANO – A heartless father and stepmother have tortured, starved and locked up a two-year-old girl for eight days and later claimed she was dead.
The incident, which happened at a time when the country is supposed to be advocating against such violence for the next 16 days, was discovered on Monday by by the child’s biological mother and her family members who had come for the funeral arrangements only to find her alive, but malnourished under a blanket of clothing.
The child is currently fighting for her life at Hlatikulu Government Hospital.
She was assaulted, allegedly by her stepmother, using a thorny stick all over the body before her biological father allegedly hid the bruised girl in a locked house for eight days.
It is still a mystery how the child survived, considering the days she spent in the locked house reportedly with nothing to eat. The incident took place at Kakholwane near Mkhondvo in the KaPhunga constituency. According to the child’s mother, Nothando Shabangu of Maseyisini, her daughter was also denied food and allegedly made to drink insufficient water, thrown at her through the window, until she was discovered in a malnourished condition on Monday afternoon. The child is currently admitted at the isolation ward and is breathing through the aid of a life-support system to assist her with oxygen.
The names of the father and stepmother are known to this publication but deliberately withheld, pending police finalisation of investigations into the matter. They have both not been arrested. Nothando, a Zheng Yong Textile Factory employee, said the shocking discovery that her child was still alive was made on Monday afternoon when her family had gone to the homestead of the child’s father, a traditional healer selling his products around Manzini, to mourn the death of her daughter as well as arrange logistics for the funeral.
Narrating her ordeal, Nothando alleged on Sunday evening her grandmother received a call from the child’s father that her granddaughter had died in unclear circumstances and that her family should come for the funeral.
During an interview at the hospital, a teary Nothando alleged, upon arrival at the homestead on Monday at around noon in the company of her relatives including her grandmother, Gogo Shabangu, they were shocked to find no mourners but only the father and his wife, in a very relaxed mood.
She said her relatives, in a respectable manner, enquired about the child’s mysterious death and where the corpse was kept. The father allegedly said the corpse was kept in one of the houses situated within the family compound but no one was allowed to go inside or view it since the family elders were not present.
It is said in the midst of the confusion; a relative of the child’s mother, then visited the homestead of an aunt of the father, situated a few metres from his homestead, and was shocked to discover she had no idea of the so-called death.
"My relative, in the company of the aunt, then came to the homestead and repeatedly asked the father why he had not informed her about the child’s death. He kept insisting my daughter was dead and her dead body was kept in one of the houses and no one was allowed to go inside it. He then changed his tune, claiming the child had been troubled by the fact she does not stay with her mother. At that moment, the stepmother dropped the bombshell and said my child was alive, but locked in a house because she looked like a dead person. She said the child was suffering because I had deserted her and she had no time to look after other people’s babies. We found the child in a very sorry state, wrapped with wet blankets. She had unchanged sanitary napkins and was very weak and malnourished. I was shocked because even the child’s father sang the same tune as his wife - that no one had the time to look after my child. We then took the child to the Hlatikulu Police Station, where the police rushed her to hospital upon arrival while one of my relatives remained behind, recording a statement," said Shabangu.
http://www.times.co.sz/index.php?news=23573
Family tortures, locks up, starves girl (2) for 8 days
By SIZWE MAZIYA on December 02,2010
NHLANGANO – A heartless father and stepmother have tortured, starved and locked up a two-year-old girl for eight days and later claimed she was dead.
The incident, which happened at a time when the country is supposed to be advocating against such violence for the next 16 days, was discovered on Monday by by the child’s biological mother and her family members who had come for the funeral arrangements only to find her alive, but malnourished under a blanket of clothing.
The child is currently fighting for her life at Hlatikulu Government Hospital.
She was assaulted, allegedly by her stepmother, using a thorny stick all over the body before her biological father allegedly hid the bruised girl in a locked house for eight days.
It is still a mystery how the child survived, considering the days she spent in the locked house reportedly with nothing to eat. The incident took place at Kakholwane near Mkhondvo in the KaPhunga constituency. According to the child’s mother, Nothando Shabangu of Maseyisini, her daughter was also denied food and allegedly made to drink insufficient water, thrown at her through the window, until she was discovered in a malnourished condition on Monday afternoon. The child is currently admitted at the isolation ward and is breathing through the aid of a life-support system to assist her with oxygen.
The names of the father and stepmother are known to this publication but deliberately withheld, pending police finalisation of investigations into the matter. They have both not been arrested. Nothando, a Zheng Yong Textile Factory employee, said the shocking discovery that her child was still alive was made on Monday afternoon when her family had gone to the homestead of the child’s father, a traditional healer selling his products around Manzini, to mourn the death of her daughter as well as arrange logistics for the funeral.
Narrating her ordeal, Nothando alleged on Sunday evening her grandmother received a call from the child’s father that her granddaughter had died in unclear circumstances and that her family should come for the funeral.
During an interview at the hospital, a teary Nothando alleged, upon arrival at the homestead on Monday at around noon in the company of her relatives including her grandmother, Gogo Shabangu, they were shocked to find no mourners but only the father and his wife, in a very relaxed mood.
She said her relatives, in a respectable manner, enquired about the child’s mysterious death and where the corpse was kept. The father allegedly said the corpse was kept in one of the houses situated within the family compound but no one was allowed to go inside or view it since the family elders were not present.
It is said in the midst of the confusion; a relative of the child’s mother, then visited the homestead of an aunt of the father, situated a few metres from his homestead, and was shocked to discover she had no idea of the so-called death.
"My relative, in the company of the aunt, then came to the homestead and repeatedly asked the father why he had not informed her about the child’s death. He kept insisting my daughter was dead and her dead body was kept in one of the houses and no one was allowed to go inside it. He then changed his tune, claiming the child had been troubled by the fact she does not stay with her mother. At that moment, the stepmother dropped the bombshell and said my child was alive, but locked in a house because she looked like a dead person. She said the child was suffering because I had deserted her and she had no time to look after other people’s babies. We found the child in a very sorry state, wrapped with wet blankets. She had unchanged sanitary napkins and was very weak and malnourished. I was shocked because even the child’s father sang the same tune as his wife - that no one had the time to look after my child. We then took the child to the Hlatikulu Police Station, where the police rushed her to hospital upon arrival while one of my relatives remained behind, recording a statement," said Shabangu.
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