Posted on 01/09/2007 4:08:56 PM PST by highimpact
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Orlando woman was arrested on felony child abuse charges Monday after she put her baby in an oven and left her apartment, according to Orlando police.
Sharlyn Singh, 29, was arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated child abuse after police investigated the claims made by the 11-month-old baby's uncle.
Morris Naraidoo told police that he was in the process of helping his brother, the baby's father, move out of Singh's apartment on Kirkman Road because they were breaking up. That's when he heard the baby crying.
Naraidoo said that he asked Singh where the baby was, and Singh didn't answer him and walked out of the apartment, according to police.
Naraidoo said he followed the baby's cry and realized it was coming from inside the oven, according to police. He told police the stove top was turned on but the oven was not hot enough to burn the baby.
Naraidoo said he turned the stove off and removed the baby from the oven, according to Orlando police.
"I was scared because I've never seen something like that before," Naraidoo said. "(The baby's mother) had a few drinks, and usually when she drinks, she gets a little drunk and acting crazy."
Police told Local 6 News that the baby could have easily suffocated in a matter of minutes.
"If I wasn't here then, it could have been dangerous," Naraidoo said.
Police said they found grease on the baby's hand and clothing.
The baby is OK and in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, police said.
Singh is being held at the Orange County Jail on $15,000 bond.
OMG!
We need to go back to "any eye for an eye".
Lock her in a commercial oven and turn it on broil.
If the baby is in the custody of the Florida DCF, then he is most definitely NOT OK.
The baby will be back in the MOMMY arms within days. They will see to it... for she is the mommy.
Just remember. If this would have happened 12 months before it would have been perfectly legal.
Very true.
Why did you write that?
"Why did you write that?"
If she wanted to kill the baby before birth, it would have been legal.
Everyone gets outraged when babies are abused, but torture of the preborn gets a big yawn.
I understand now.
exactly
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