UNNAMED DAD has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with injuries sustained by his 2-month-old son.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1189086.html
Halifax man charged with shaking baby
Sat. Jun 26 - 4:53 AM
A Halifax man faces aggravated assault charges in connection with injuries his two-month-old son received overnight Thursday.
Police said Friday the 27-year-old man was charged after doctors believed the baby’s injuries were consistent with shaken baby syndrome.
The man and the mother of the child took the baby to the IWK Health Centre sometime before police were called in at 1:50 a.m. Friday, said Const. Brian Palmeter, spokesman for the Halifax Regional Police.
The baby is expected to make a full recovery, said Palmeter, who wasn’t sure if the child had been released back to his mother later Friday.
The man, whose name has not been released because the information against him has yet to be sworn, is out on conditions not to have contact with the child, Palmeter said.
The child remains in the care of the mother, who does not face any charges in connection with the incident, he said.
The accused will appear in Halifax provincial court on Aug. 23.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Dad jailed after 14-month-old son dies from "suspicious" injuries (Denver, Colorado)
Dad JARED JIMINEZ is in police custody after his 14-month-old son died from "suspicious" injuries. Given Dad's criminal history (including assault, menacing a victim with a deadly weapon, DISMISSAL of a temporary restraining order), there is certainly cause for alarm.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT: Where is this baby's mother? Why wasn't this boy in his mother's care, instead of in the care of a violent felon? Mom working? Visitation? What?
By the way, "economic hardship" per se doesn't cause child abuse. What does cause child abuse? Working moms utilizing unemployed/underemployed fathers--especially those with criminal records--for child care.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15386937
Denver man jailed after 14-month-old son dies
By David Olinger
The Denver Post
Posted: 06/27/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
Updated: 06/27/2010 09:16:31 AM MDT
Jared Jimenez is suspected of child abuse. The father of a 14-month-old baby in Denver has been jailed as a child-abuse suspect after his son died Friday at Lutheran Medical Center.
Police were called about 1 p.m. after an ambulance arrived at the hospital. The father reported that his son had fallen out of his crib, but by the time the ambulance arrived at the emergency room, the baby's heart had stopped beating, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The dying baby was whisked from the emergency department to an operating room, where doctors tried in vain to revive him, the spokeswoman said.
Because the fatal injuries were suspicious, Denver homicide detectives took the 26-year-old father, Jared Jimenez, into custody to investigate whether the boy died of child abuse. The father was still in jail Saturday night, police said.
Denver police have not released the name of the boy or identified where he lived. They confirmed, however, that the father had a prior criminal arrest record.
According to Colorado Bureau of Investigation and state court records, Jimenez had been arrested seven times since 2004, mostly on minor charges that included a misdemeanor assault and driving under the influence.
He faced felony charges of assault and menacing a victim with a deadly weapon in 2005, but court records indicate those charges were dismissed along with a temporary restraining order.
Babies are particularly vulnerable to abuse and more likely to die from even a moment of violence. Nationally, 42 percent of the children who died of abuse or neglect in 2007 were less than a year old. Seventy-five percent were 3 years old or younger.
In Colorado, about 30 children die from abuse or neglect each year, and the toll has been rising since 2005.
The Kempe Foundation for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect points to poverty as a contributing factor: Statistically, child abuse increases as economic hardships grow.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT: Where is this baby's mother? Why wasn't this boy in his mother's care, instead of in the care of a violent felon? Mom working? Visitation? What?
By the way, "economic hardship" per se doesn't cause child abuse. What does cause child abuse? Working moms utilizing unemployed/underemployed fathers--especially those with criminal records--for child care.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15386937
Denver man jailed after 14-month-old son dies
By David Olinger
The Denver Post
Posted: 06/27/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
Updated: 06/27/2010 09:16:31 AM MDT
Jared Jimenez is suspected of child abuse. The father of a 14-month-old baby in Denver has been jailed as a child-abuse suspect after his son died Friday at Lutheran Medical Center.
Police were called about 1 p.m. after an ambulance arrived at the hospital. The father reported that his son had fallen out of his crib, but by the time the ambulance arrived at the emergency room, the baby's heart had stopped beating, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The dying baby was whisked from the emergency department to an operating room, where doctors tried in vain to revive him, the spokeswoman said.
Because the fatal injuries were suspicious, Denver homicide detectives took the 26-year-old father, Jared Jimenez, into custody to investigate whether the boy died of child abuse. The father was still in jail Saturday night, police said.
Denver police have not released the name of the boy or identified where he lived. They confirmed, however, that the father had a prior criminal arrest record.
According to Colorado Bureau of Investigation and state court records, Jimenez had been arrested seven times since 2004, mostly on minor charges that included a misdemeanor assault and driving under the influence.
He faced felony charges of assault and menacing a victim with a deadly weapon in 2005, but court records indicate those charges were dismissed along with a temporary restraining order.
Babies are particularly vulnerable to abuse and more likely to die from even a moment of violence. Nationally, 42 percent of the children who died of abuse or neglect in 2007 were less than a year old. Seventy-five percent were 3 years old or younger.
In Colorado, about 30 children die from abuse or neglect each year, and the toll has been rising since 2005.
The Kempe Foundation for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect points to poverty as a contributing factor: Statistically, child abuse increases as economic hardships grow.
Friday, June 25, 2010
DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina - 1995)
Children being murdered by their abusive fathers during visitation time is not exactly new. The murder of these three children by their father, DOUGLAS MONT, took place in 1995, over 15 years ago. But you do sense there was more outrage then. Note that even the police chief wondered who had failed, and why these murders were not prevented from happening. What has changed in 15 years? Only that with more joint custody and vistation agreements involving abusers, people seem to be more jaded about these things.
From the Eugene Register-Guard, February 20, 1995
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LHQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kesDAAAAIBAJ&dq=father%20murder%20children&pg=6967%2C5098121
Father's murder of 3 children stuns small town
By the Associated Press
KILL DEVIL HILLS, NC--Residents left flowers and notes Monday on the blackened spot of pavement where the bodies of three murdered children were found in a burning van. Their father had committed suicide nearby.
Even Police Chief James Gradeless, a 20-year law enforcement veteran who also served with Special Forces in Vietnam, was shaken by what he saw this weekend in his normally quiet town.
"It's not a Kill Devil Hills story," Gradless said. "It's an American Story. It bothers all of our consciences because somewhere, someplace, society has failed to prevent this kind of thing from happening."
Douglas Mont, 35, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the woods about 150 feet from the First Flight airport parking lot where the van was found early Sunday.
His children were shot in the head with the same gun; they did not die in the fire, which was so hot it melted parts of the van, Gradeless said.
The children's mother, Nancy Mont, had reported them missing from their home in Seaford, Del., after they did not return from visiting their father. The couple had separated in August.
Cpl. Preston Lewis, a spokesman for the Delaware State Police, confirmed the identities of the children as Catrina J. Mont, 9; Daniel Preston Mont, 6; and Theresa Lynn Mont, 4.
On Monday morning, a green basket of silk flowers had been placed at the scene with a sign saying "Three little angels from Alex, Sam and Ray." The van and the bodies had been removed.
Later, Sheila Scheck, who lives near the airport in Collington, visited the scene and returned with flowers. "May God Bless These Children," her arrangement said.
The father "deserved a lot worse than he did to himself. I know that for sure," she said. "It was so close here and I've got a child of my own. I guess that's why it bothered me so much."
"It's just sad," Gradeless said, choking up with tears. "I tell you, when this is all over, I'm going to need some debriefing myself."
The town of 4,200, a short distance from Kitty Hawk where the Wright brothers made aviation history, had not seen a murder since a drug-related killing in 1978.
Investigators said they don't know why Mont took his children to North Carolina or why they were killed.
In Seaford, where the children lived with their mother, Nancy Mont and her family declined to talk to reporters. A mini-car and other toys were strewn about the back yard of the family's Cape Cod home, the biggest house on the block.
Neighbors Cory and Chris Jones, who live down the street with their three children, said Nancy Mont changed her routine after she and Mont separated, driving her children to and from the school bus stop, rather than letting them walk alone.
Court records indicate that she had accused her husband of abusing her last year, but state police said no charges were filed.
Under terms of the couple's visitation agreement, the children were not allowed overnight visits with their father, and Nancy Mont told authorities he had brought them back home on time until last weekend.
When they didn't return Saturday, she contacted police, and about 1:30 a.m. a passer-by saw the Ford Aerostar van on fire. Firefighters did not discover the children inside until after they had extinguished the flames.
Police searching for clues after the fire found a man lying on his stomach in the woods. When they asked him to put his hands up, he raised his right hand in the air, raised a handgun to his ear with his left hand and shot himself, Gradeless said. He was later identified as Mont.
From the Eugene Register-Guard, February 20, 1995
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LHQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kesDAAAAIBAJ&dq=father%20murder%20children&pg=6967%2C5098121
Father's murder of 3 children stuns small town
By the Associated Press
KILL DEVIL HILLS, NC--Residents left flowers and notes Monday on the blackened spot of pavement where the bodies of three murdered children were found in a burning van. Their father had committed suicide nearby.
Even Police Chief James Gradeless, a 20-year law enforcement veteran who also served with Special Forces in Vietnam, was shaken by what he saw this weekend in his normally quiet town.
"It's not a Kill Devil Hills story," Gradless said. "It's an American Story. It bothers all of our consciences because somewhere, someplace, society has failed to prevent this kind of thing from happening."
Douglas Mont, 35, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the woods about 150 feet from the First Flight airport parking lot where the van was found early Sunday.
His children were shot in the head with the same gun; they did not die in the fire, which was so hot it melted parts of the van, Gradeless said.
The children's mother, Nancy Mont, had reported them missing from their home in Seaford, Del., after they did not return from visiting their father. The couple had separated in August.
Cpl. Preston Lewis, a spokesman for the Delaware State Police, confirmed the identities of the children as Catrina J. Mont, 9; Daniel Preston Mont, 6; and Theresa Lynn Mont, 4.
On Monday morning, a green basket of silk flowers had been placed at the scene with a sign saying "Three little angels from Alex, Sam and Ray." The van and the bodies had been removed.
Later, Sheila Scheck, who lives near the airport in Collington, visited the scene and returned with flowers. "May God Bless These Children," her arrangement said.
The father "deserved a lot worse than he did to himself. I know that for sure," she said. "It was so close here and I've got a child of my own. I guess that's why it bothered me so much."
"It's just sad," Gradeless said, choking up with tears. "I tell you, when this is all over, I'm going to need some debriefing myself."
The town of 4,200, a short distance from Kitty Hawk where the Wright brothers made aviation history, had not seen a murder since a drug-related killing in 1978.
Investigators said they don't know why Mont took his children to North Carolina or why they were killed.
In Seaford, where the children lived with their mother, Nancy Mont and her family declined to talk to reporters. A mini-car and other toys were strewn about the back yard of the family's Cape Cod home, the biggest house on the block.
Neighbors Cory and Chris Jones, who live down the street with their three children, said Nancy Mont changed her routine after she and Mont separated, driving her children to and from the school bus stop, rather than letting them walk alone.
Court records indicate that she had accused her husband of abusing her last year, but state police said no charges were filed.
Under terms of the couple's visitation agreement, the children were not allowed overnight visits with their father, and Nancy Mont told authorities he had brought them back home on time until last weekend.
When they didn't return Saturday, she contacted police, and about 1:30 a.m. a passer-by saw the Ford Aerostar van on fire. Firefighters did not discover the children inside until after they had extinguished the flames.
Police searching for clues after the fire found a man lying on his stomach in the woods. When they asked him to put his hands up, he raised his right hand in the air, raised a handgun to his ear with his left hand and shot himself, Gradeless said. He was later identified as Mont.
Dad gets 50 years for attempted murder, sexual assault of 7-month-old daughter; was 1st weekend of visitation (Monticello, New York)
Dad CORY CLARKE has been sentenced to 50 years to life for sexually abusing his 7-month-old daughter and leaving her in the woods to die. We first posted on this case last summer, right after the initial news reports. Though it's not mentioned here, this "incident" took place during Dady's very first weekend of visitation with his two children.
So what judge gave this animal visitation rights? Show of hands? Anyone?
Hat tip to S.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100625/NEWS/100629842
Clarke gets 50 years to life for attempted murder, sexual assault on his child
Published: 12:08 PM - 06/25/10
Last updated: 1:45 PM - 06/25/10
MONTICELLO — Cory Clarke was sentenced to 50 years to life Friday for sexually abusing his 7-month old daughter and then leaving her in the woods to die on July 4.
Clarke, 27, will not be eligible for parole until he is 78.
Sullivan County Judge Frank LaBuda, in sentencing Clarke Friday, several times called him “evil incarnate.”
Clark was convicted in March of attempted murder, first-degree predatory sexual abuse on a child, incest and other first-degree felony sex crimes.
Clarke reported the baby missing to a Walmart employee. He maintained that the baby was snatched while he was changing her brother in a bathroom.
District Attorney Jim Farrell called Clarke's story preposterous, hammering home in his closing statements that DNA evidence conclusively proved the sexual assault and video cameras inside Walmart ruled out an abduction. He told the jury that Clarke planned to dump the baby and concoct a story to cover the sex abuse.
Farrell showed the jury a graphic photo demonstrating damage done to the baby, and the baby's blood-stained diaper. Clarke, who had visitation rights, had to return the baby to the mother on the Monday after a weekend visit and would have been discovered, Farrell said.
Clarke's attorney, Fred Neroni said he plans to appeal.
So what judge gave this animal visitation rights? Show of hands? Anyone?
Hat tip to S.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100625/NEWS/100629842
Clarke gets 50 years to life for attempted murder, sexual assault on his child
Published: 12:08 PM - 06/25/10
Last updated: 1:45 PM - 06/25/10
MONTICELLO — Cory Clarke was sentenced to 50 years to life Friday for sexually abusing his 7-month old daughter and then leaving her in the woods to die on July 4.
Clarke, 27, will not be eligible for parole until he is 78.
Sullivan County Judge Frank LaBuda, in sentencing Clarke Friday, several times called him “evil incarnate.”
Clark was convicted in March of attempted murder, first-degree predatory sexual abuse on a child, incest and other first-degree felony sex crimes.
Clarke reported the baby missing to a Walmart employee. He maintained that the baby was snatched while he was changing her brother in a bathroom.
District Attorney Jim Farrell called Clarke's story preposterous, hammering home in his closing statements that DNA evidence conclusively proved the sexual assault and video cameras inside Walmart ruled out an abduction. He told the jury that Clarke planned to dump the baby and concoct a story to cover the sex abuse.
Farrell showed the jury a graphic photo demonstrating damage done to the baby, and the baby's blood-stained diaper. Clarke, who had visitation rights, had to return the baby to the mother on the Monday after a weekend visit and would have been discovered, Farrell said.
Clarke's attorney, Fred Neroni said he plans to appeal.
Neighbors and friends complained about custodial dad, but authorities refused to act (Newcastle, Australia)
We just posted on this case recently. Now we find out that "neighbors and family members" had repeatedly contacted the authorities about this unemployed, dysfunctional UNNAMED FATHER. Not only were these children neglected, they lived in squalor (earlier reports also mention something about drugs in the home). Yet all the complaints were ignored until recently. So how and why did this father maintain CUSTODY? Who gave it to him?
Note the very last line. "The children are now with their mother and are appropriately cared for." Well, if Mum was able to provide appropriate care, why were the kids sleeping in the same bed as dad surrounded by dog sh**? Still think dads are at a disadvantage when it comes to custody? Not even close, pal. The pendulum has swung way the other direction these days, though very few members of the general public seem to have realized this. Yet.
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/community-services-didnt-act-on-child-risk/1869060.aspx
Community Services didn't act on child risk
BY DONNA PAGE
26 Jun, 2010 04:00 AM
COMMUNITY Services has admitted it failed to act, despite receiving numerous reports about concern for the welfare of three children whose father pleaded guilty to neglect in Newcastle Local Court earlier this week.
Neighbours and family members have said they repeatedly contacted Community Services and Housing NSW over a period of years because they feared the children were at risk.
It has been revealed that Housing NSW also contacted Community Services in November last year after its inspectors found two of the children at home alone.
The Newcastle Herald reported on Wednesday that an unemployed father had been fined $800 after pleading guilty to neglecting his three children, aged 10, 12 and 14.
The family's Department of Housing residence had a broken toilet full of human waste and none of the lights worked. It was infested with cockroaches and littered with dog faeces.
The children shared a bed with their father in the living room because there were dog faeces on the bedroom floors.
Community Services Minister Linda Burney conceded action should have been taken sooner.
Ms Burney described the conditions the children were forced to live in as "squalid".
"It would have been preferable if action had been taken earlier but, as Justice Wood identified in his special commission of inquiry into child protection, there is massive demand on the system," she said.
"This puts pressure on case workers to determine which cases are the highest priority."
Community Services initially refused, on the basis of privacy concerns, to reveal if it had any knowledge of the family before police intervened on May 20.
But when faced with the details of reports from neighbours and family, a department spokeswoman conceded the agency had received prior reports about the children but they were not acted on.
"The reports were not able to be allocated due to competing priorities but, following serious concerns raised in May, Community Services responded and has since been working with the family," she said.
"The children are now with their mother and appropriately cared for."
Note the very last line. "The children are now with their mother and are appropriately cared for." Well, if Mum was able to provide appropriate care, why were the kids sleeping in the same bed as dad surrounded by dog sh**? Still think dads are at a disadvantage when it comes to custody? Not even close, pal. The pendulum has swung way the other direction these days, though very few members of the general public seem to have realized this. Yet.
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/community-services-didnt-act-on-child-risk/1869060.aspx
Community Services didn't act on child risk
BY DONNA PAGE
26 Jun, 2010 04:00 AM
COMMUNITY Services has admitted it failed to act, despite receiving numerous reports about concern for the welfare of three children whose father pleaded guilty to neglect in Newcastle Local Court earlier this week.
Neighbours and family members have said they repeatedly contacted Community Services and Housing NSW over a period of years because they feared the children were at risk.
It has been revealed that Housing NSW also contacted Community Services in November last year after its inspectors found two of the children at home alone.
The Newcastle Herald reported on Wednesday that an unemployed father had been fined $800 after pleading guilty to neglecting his three children, aged 10, 12 and 14.
The family's Department of Housing residence had a broken toilet full of human waste and none of the lights worked. It was infested with cockroaches and littered with dog faeces.
The children shared a bed with their father in the living room because there were dog faeces on the bedroom floors.
Community Services Minister Linda Burney conceded action should have been taken sooner.
Ms Burney described the conditions the children were forced to live in as "squalid".
"It would have been preferable if action had been taken earlier but, as Justice Wood identified in his special commission of inquiry into child protection, there is massive demand on the system," she said.
"This puts pressure on case workers to determine which cases are the highest priority."
Community Services initially refused, on the basis of privacy concerns, to reveal if it had any knowledge of the family before police intervened on May 20.
But when faced with the details of reports from neighbours and family, a department spokeswoman conceded the agency had received prior reports about the children but they were not acted on.
"The reports were not able to be allocated due to competing priorities but, following serious concerns raised in May, Community Services responded and has since been working with the family," she said.
"The children are now with their mother and appropriately cared for."
Crazy father leaves 3-year-old son home alone while talking to cooked chickens (Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia)
I'm not big on mental health labels, but you don't need a PhD in psychology to figure out that UNNAMED DAD is a few cards short of a full deck. Talking to the cooked chickens at the supermarket? Mmm, okay. Did they say anything back? Personally, I prefer talking to uncooked chickens, but hey--to each his own.
Meanwhile, while Dad is engaging in conversations with poultry, he's left his 3-year-old son home alone. It seems the supermarket outing had something to do with "searching" for his 3-year-old son, whom Dad was convinced he had "lost." The police are unable to determine where this guy even lives, he's so disoriented and incoherent.
Eventually, the police track down Dad's "ex-partner" (the 3-year-old's mother?), and she is able to tell them the correct address. The police found the boy riding his tricyle, not far from Daddy's caravan (trailer), where Daddy had left on two hot plates.
I sincerely doubt this was Dad's first experience with serious drugs and/or manic, delusional behavior. So who allowed him to "care" for this 3-year-old child? Did he have custody? Visitation? Oh wait, this is Australia. If you're a father and you have a pulse, you automatically get custodial/visitation rights. Gotcha.
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2010/06/26/dad-says-frasert-hervey-bay-court-crime/
Hervey Bay dad says son was 'lost'
Kristy Martin 26th June 2010
A HERVEY Bay dad was allegedly so out of it that he left his three-year-old son home alone and then forgot where the boy was and ran frantically up and down the Scarness foreshore searching for him.
The 37-year-old father, who cannot be named, will stand trial in the Hervey Bay District Court charged with leaving a child under 12 unattended and failing to provide sufficient supervision and care.
The man was allegedly in such a disoriented state that he couldn't even provide his personal details or his own address to police on the morning of April 2.
He'd been seen walking along the Scarness foreshore about 6.35am talking to himself and an hour later entered the Foodworks supermarket and tried to have a conversation with the cooked chickens.
CCTV footage from the shop allegedly showed the man moving a display stand over to the chickens as if he was trying to demonstrate something to them.
The man, who appeared in the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court this week, was found walking along the Esplanade in a distressed state and telling people he'd lost his son.
He also called police to tell them he'd lost the boy.
But when police arrived at the scene, the confused father could not explain how he had lost the boy and could not provide a description of the child.
He allegedly changed his story a number of times and at one stage even told the officers that he'd lost two children, not one.
Police said the man appeared under the influence of drugs or alcohol and when they asked him to take them to his home, he directed them to a complete stranger's house instead.
The officers eventually enlisted the help of the man's ex-partner and she directed them to the correct address.
The three-year-old child was found riding a tricycle around at the caravan park where his father lives.
A witness said the boy had been roaming around asking for his “Daddy”.
Police entered the man's caravan, which was empty, and allegedly found two hot plates burning at an extremely hot temperature within arm's reach of the young boy.
His father's bed had not been slept in and another witness told police the man had not been seen with the child since midnight the previous night.
When the man was interviewed, he allegedly told police he had been with the child earlier, but the boy had run off while they were at the beach.
The man, who did not enter any plea, will face the District Court at a date to be set.
Meanwhile, while Dad is engaging in conversations with poultry, he's left his 3-year-old son home alone. It seems the supermarket outing had something to do with "searching" for his 3-year-old son, whom Dad was convinced he had "lost." The police are unable to determine where this guy even lives, he's so disoriented and incoherent.
Eventually, the police track down Dad's "ex-partner" (the 3-year-old's mother?), and she is able to tell them the correct address. The police found the boy riding his tricyle, not far from Daddy's caravan (trailer), where Daddy had left on two hot plates.
I sincerely doubt this was Dad's first experience with serious drugs and/or manic, delusional behavior. So who allowed him to "care" for this 3-year-old child? Did he have custody? Visitation? Oh wait, this is Australia. If you're a father and you have a pulse, you automatically get custodial/visitation rights. Gotcha.
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2010/06/26/dad-says-frasert-hervey-bay-court-crime/
Hervey Bay dad says son was 'lost'
Kristy Martin 26th June 2010
A HERVEY Bay dad was allegedly so out of it that he left his three-year-old son home alone and then forgot where the boy was and ran frantically up and down the Scarness foreshore searching for him.
The 37-year-old father, who cannot be named, will stand trial in the Hervey Bay District Court charged with leaving a child under 12 unattended and failing to provide sufficient supervision and care.
The man was allegedly in such a disoriented state that he couldn't even provide his personal details or his own address to police on the morning of April 2.
He'd been seen walking along the Scarness foreshore about 6.35am talking to himself and an hour later entered the Foodworks supermarket and tried to have a conversation with the cooked chickens.
CCTV footage from the shop allegedly showed the man moving a display stand over to the chickens as if he was trying to demonstrate something to them.
The man, who appeared in the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court this week, was found walking along the Esplanade in a distressed state and telling people he'd lost his son.
He also called police to tell them he'd lost the boy.
But when police arrived at the scene, the confused father could not explain how he had lost the boy and could not provide a description of the child.
He allegedly changed his story a number of times and at one stage even told the officers that he'd lost two children, not one.
Police said the man appeared under the influence of drugs or alcohol and when they asked him to take them to his home, he directed them to a complete stranger's house instead.
The officers eventually enlisted the help of the man's ex-partner and she directed them to the correct address.
The three-year-old child was found riding a tricycle around at the caravan park where his father lives.
A witness said the boy had been roaming around asking for his “Daddy”.
Police entered the man's caravan, which was empty, and allegedly found two hot plates burning at an extremely hot temperature within arm's reach of the young boy.
His father's bed had not been slept in and another witness told police the man had not been seen with the child since midnight the previous night.
When the man was interviewed, he allegedly told police he had been with the child earlier, but the boy had run off while they were at the beach.
The man, who did not enter any plea, will face the District Court at a date to be set.
Dad admits to 'slapping' 5-month-old son; baby hospitalized (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Dad JESSE CLAUS has been charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child after he "slapped" his 5-month-old son. I'm guessing this baby must have done something truly terrible--like squirming while Daddy was trying to change his diapers. Given that the baby appeared to be "out of it," seems Daddy inflicted a little brain damage with his "slap." What an @$$wipe.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/24040668/detail.html
Man Admits To ‘Slapping’ 5-Month-Old Baby
Posted: 12:05 pm EDT June 25, 2010
Updated: 12:57 pm EDT June 25, 2010
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh police said a father admitted to hitting his 5-month-old infant son Wednesday. The child is now in the hospital.
Investigators said the baby’s mother called police after she noticed that the child was “out of it.”
According to the criminal complaint, Jesse Claus of Penn Hills admitted to police that he put his son on a diaper table and slapped him with what he estimated to be 75 percent of his strength.
Claus is charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/24040668/detail.html
Man Admits To ‘Slapping’ 5-Month-Old Baby
Posted: 12:05 pm EDT June 25, 2010
Updated: 12:57 pm EDT June 25, 2010
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh police said a father admitted to hitting his 5-month-old infant son Wednesday. The child is now in the hospital.
Investigators said the baby’s mother called police after she noticed that the child was “out of it.”
According to the criminal complaint, Jesse Claus of Penn Hills admitted to police that he put his son on a diaper table and slapped him with what he estimated to be 75 percent of his strength.
Claus is charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
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