Dad, girlfriend charged with aggravated assault of 2-year-old daughter during his weekend visitation; little girl partially paralyzed (Atlantic City, New Jersey)

Dad is identified as JACOB LIHN.

http://www.nj.com/south/index.ssf/2015/05/atlantic_city_toddler_partially_paralyzed_after_br.html

Partially paralyzed N.J. toddler recovering after alleged assault by dad, girlfriend

Andy Polhamus | For NJ.com on May 26, 2015 at 7:10 AM, updated May 26, 2015 at 5:02 PM

Jacob Lihn and Jennifer Pandorf, of Washington Township, are charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

Alayna Lihn loves to have her picture taken. Whenever a camera is pointed her way, she grins and calls out "cheese!" as if acting on instinct.

But her smile is a little lopsided these days, and as she sat on her mother's lap recently at rehab facility, Alayna hugged her mom with only one arm. That's because the left side of her body is still paralyzed from a brutal beating the toddler allegedly sustained at the hands of her father and his girlfriend.

Jacob Lihn, 25, and Jennifer Pandorf, 34, of Lupus Lane in Washington Township, Gloucester County, have been charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child for the April 11 attack. Alayna, 2, was beaten so badly that she had retinal hemorrhaging and bleeding on the brain. Doctors determined that she had also suffered a seizure and a stroke.

Melissa Velez, Alayna's mom, said she got a text message from Lihn just before she left to pick Alayna up from a routine weekend visit with her father. The message said the little girl had a swollen face from a possible allergic reaction. When Velez saw her daughter, however, the girl's eyes were swollen shut, and her entire body was limp. She rushed Alayna immediately to a hospital, where doctors told her the injuries were the result of severe abuse.

For two days, no one was sure whether Alayna would survive. #"They were letting three or four of us sleep in the ICU," said Velez. Alayna made it, however, and is recovering in a pediatric rehabilitation ward.

"We're managing, family-wise," said Velez, sitting in the room the two now share at a children's hospital in Marlton. "She's not moving her left arm and leg. That's what we're in rehabilitation for."

Alayna has at least three weeks left before she can go home to Atlantic City. Her days start early, with speech and physical therapy beginning at about 7:30 a.m. She hasn't been home in weeks, but she's still cheerful and precocious, naming all the animals painted on the walls in the corridor and talking to everyone she meets.

"Even before the whole incident, she was wonderful," said Velez. "Everybody she saw, she would say hello. She's never been one to cry."

In the first few days after she regained consciousness — Alayna could not open her eyes for two days after the assault — she was scared and distrusting.

"At first it was a lot of 'don't touch me! I only want Mommy,'" said Wallace Chapman, an old family friend. But on a couple of particularly difficult occasions, Alayna refused to let even her mother touch her.

It was a different Alayna than anyone had seen before, one that bore no resemblance to the one now playing with her mom's cell phone in between bites of finely-chopped beef and potatoes. She had tried to eat an apple the day before, but the muscles in her mouth wouldn't cooperate.

"I feel good!" Alayna said without hesitation when a reporter asked how she was doing. She is making progress regaining the use of her left leg, but is more reluctant with her arm.

"I'm just thankful," said Velez of her daughter's survival, although details of the incident have not yet been released. "My only hope is that the truth finally comes out. I want [Lihn and Pandorf] to say what happened, and I want justice served. This was clearly abuse."

Velez has also missed several weeks of work. The single mom is a manager at a beachfront restaurant and bar in Atlantic City, and has had to spend most of her time in Marlton, catching a bus to get from her home to the hospital.

"It's like something you'd see on a TV show," said Whitney Brennan of Egg Harbor Township, Velez's close friend. "You'd never expect something like this to happen, and when it does, it's crazy. My daughter and Alayna are 11 days apart. I couldn't imagine going through this."

With that in mind, Brennan has started an online fundraiser to help Velez pay the bills while she's out of work.

"It's just Melissa taking care of everything. She works her butt off," Brennan said. "I want to make sure that when Alayna gets out, she has a place to go."

Anyone interested in donating to the fund can do so by visiting gofundme.com/ryce8zg.

Alayna has finally regained the weight she lost while she was in the ICU, and her speech is getting back to normal. In a few more weeks, doctors will make a decision on whether she can go home.

"She's getting back to the child she was," Velez said. "I just want the old Alayna back."

Dad abuses 2-month-old daughter after being asked to watch her for 30 minutes; baby has multiple fractures, brain injuries (West Haven, Utah)

Yet another "frustrated" younger father who couldn't manage to watch the baby for even half an hour with f***ing up. This one is identified as MARK BERRY.

http://fox13now.com/2015/05/13/utah-teen-arrested-for-child-abuse-after-infant-daughter-rushed-to-hospital/

Utah teen arrested for child abuse after infant daughter rushed to hospital

Posted 2:55 pm, May 13, 2015, by Ashton Edwards, Updated at 04:32pm, May 13, 2015

WEST HAVEN, Utah – A West Haven teen is in jail after his 2-month-old daughter was taken to the hospital for injuries from alleged child abuse that included a brain injury and multiple fractures.

According to a statement of probable cause, the infant’s mother said the father, 18-year-old Mark Berry, was put in charge of watching the baby for about 30 minutes.

When the mother came home, she noticed the child was twitching and seemed to be having a seizure. The child was taken to McKay Dee Hospital, and after a CT scan revealed bleeding in the baby’s brain the child was flown to Primary Children’s Hospital.

Berry did not go to the hospital with the child, but he was later located and he admitted he was frustrated and “forcefully” put the child in a swinging chair twice, according to a statement of probable cause. The statement indicates Berry admitted to police “that he knew his actions would likely cause injury to the child.”

Medical staff reported the child suffered a serious injury to the back of her brain and several fractures, including fractures to the right leg and left arm, according to the PC statement.

Berry was booked into the Weber County Jail. The child is in the hospital in stable condition.

Dad accused of abusing 4-month-old son (Providence, Rhode Island)

Dad is identified as JHON PINO.

http://wpri.com/2014/09/30/providence-man-accused-of-shaking-infant-son/

Providence man accused of abusing infant son

By Darren Soens Published: September 30, 2014, 10:54 am | Updated: September 30, 2014, 9:13 pm

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Providence man is facing child abuse charges after his four-month-old son suffered a seizure and was rushed to Hasbro Children’s Hospital.

The doctor who examined the child notified police of possible abuse. Investigators questioned the father, Jhon Pino, and charged him with first-degree child abuse, police confirmed for Eyewitness News.

According to the initial police report, the baby’s mother told police the child appeared to be fine when she left her apartment last Thursday at 8 a.m. However, at 9:30 a.m. she received a call that her son had been rushed to the hospital. The mother told police she had no idea how her baby was hurt.

According to the report, Pino initially told police he did not know how the baby was injured. However, after a detective used a teddy bear to demonstrate how an injury like the one the victim sustained happens, Pino broke down in tears.

“Oh my God, I think I hurt my baby,” Pino is quoted in the report. “I was trying to comfort the baby and was holding the baby sideways on my knee and he went into a seizure.”

The child’s condition was unknown as of Tuesday morning.

Baby could have permanent brain damage after being violently shaken by dad (Kokomo, Indiana)

Another dad who lied about the abuse, thus delaying treatment.

Dad is identified as GARY PETERSON.

http://www.examiner.com/article/baby-could-suffer-permanent-brain-damage-after-being-violently-shaken-by-dad

Baby could suffer permanent brain damage after being violently shaken by dad

A father from Kokomo was charged after police say he shook his 3-month-old daughter after the child suffered from a seizure.

Richard Webster Domestic Crimes Examiner
May 13, 2014

A three-month-old baby in Ind. suffered a seizure and became unresponsive, so her 26-year-old father shook her violently enough to create even worse damage, according to police in Kokomo. The father, 26-year-old Gary Peterson, was arrested on a Class B felony neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury charge, according to a May 13 report from WISHTV.

Peterson told police in Kokomo that his baby daughter started crying back on that tragic day in March; so the father went to prepare a bottle for her. When he returned to his daughter with her bottle, the child had stopped crying and “appeared lifeless on the couch.” The father said that he picked his daughter up and talked to her in an attempt to get her to wake up. Peterson told police when he couldn’t wake the baby up, that’s when he began shaking her. Police also said that Peterson denied that he shook his daughter prior to her suffering a seizure.

The baby was taken to Community Howard Regional Health with injuries severe enough to have her airlifted to Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. According to The Kokomo Tribune, doctors at Riley Hospital communicated with the Indiana Department of Child Services, “who investigated the incident for possible child abuse,” that as a result of being shaken the baby ended up with a broken rib, a retinal hemorrhage behind one her eyes and bleeding on her brain.

“Doctors said the brain bleeding could result in permanent brain damage.”

According to charging documents, Peterson stated that he neglected to tell doctors initially that he shook his daughter “because he was scared. “ Police arrested the father on May 10 and transported him to the Howard County Jail.