Posted on 10/23/2010 11:23:30 AM PDT by Graybeard58
JOLIET — Paul Carlos wondered why his 2-year-old son was so well behaved with his babysitter, so he set up a secret camera to record her with the child. When he played the tape, he watched in horror as she allegedly beat the small boy into submission.
“It was the most amazing thing I ever saw in my life. It was horrible,” Carlos said before he was overcome with emotion.
Now the babysitter, 52-year-old Erin Denny, is jailed on a felony charge of aggravated battery to a child. But the child’s father was arrested as well for allegedly coming after the woman and pursuing her in circles around a kitchen island.
“I was chasing her,” confirmed Carlos, 34. “My mom saved her. What do you do? I saw red, you know?”
Denny reportedly injured herself during the chase. She was treated for a sore hip, wrist and ribs at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center before being taken to jail Thursday.
Denny was in court this afternoon and her bond was set at $150,000.
Denny was also charged with a parole violation. She was released from Dwight Correctional Center in August 2009 after serving a year and three months for the manufacture or delivery of heroin. Denny has also done time for retail theft and possession of a controlled substance. She has 1995 and 2007 misdemeanor prostitution convictions and a 1998 domestic battery conviction as well.
Charged with misdemeanor assault, Carlos was released on his own recognizance.
Carlos, a Teamster truck driver, said Denny was a family friend and lived with his mother in her East Washington Street home. He would drop his young son off with Denny at his mother’s residence on his way to work.
Carlos said he wondered why his child responded so obediently to Denny compared to others.
“He’s going through the terrible twos, (but) he listens to her,” Carlos said. “That struck me as kind of odd.”
He decided to secretly recording the woman with a camera disguised as a clock radio.
“We bought a nanny cam off eBay,” he said, and set it up in his mother’s living room to start recording when it sensed motion.
When he got home from work Tuesday, Carlos said he sat down at his computer and propped his son up on his lap so they could watch the recording together.
“I didn’t think there was going to be anything bad on that video,” he explained, telling how his son panicked at the sight of himself being beaten by the babysitter.
“He screamed and he jumped,” Carlos said. “If you could have seen the look of fear on my little boy’s face.”
He said the attack was prompted by Denny failing to find the TV remote control.
“Erin couldn’t find the remote for the TV and went over there and started beating him repeatedly,” Carlos said, telling of the shock he felt when he watched the video.
“I never would have guessed,” he said. “She seemed like such a nice lady.”
Carlos, who says he opposes corporal punishment and does not spank his son, choked back tears.
“It struck me as off that he listened to (Denny) and nobody else,” he repeated. “Now I see it was out of fear.”
She had a prostitution conviction? My God, why the hell would you pay this thing for sex?!!!
Anyway, I didn’t think that you could get in trouble for merely chasing somebody? His charges will eventually be thrown out.
She is GUILTY as all hell!
The resemblance is uncanny!
It’s time for my tried and true punishment. Fool proof, works every time.
If they survive they will be so wigged out for the rest of their lives they may take some very powerful sedatives, other drugs for their new found phobias and even smoke pot all day, just to stay calm and not scream at the walls.
They are boils on the body of life “that” need to be lanced, cartarized and then cut open, left to ooze.
Or if that is too strong:
We could throw them in a room full of rocking chairs with several long tail cats and when they are in sufficient shock and terror, flood the room to a height of about three feet and then release 3-5 adolescent Tiger Sharks.
But that’s just how I feel about it.
Your mileage may vary.
If I sat on the jury, my vote would be “not guilty” !
> As far as the father chasing her around, go to a jury and see how far that will get you.
Seems like a nice lady? Seems like an axe murderer to me. One look at that face would encourage me to cross the street in avoidance.
She looks ancient. Rode hard and put up wet.
Mid seventies.
“He’s going through the terrible twos, (but) he listens to her,” Carlos said. “That struck me as kind of odd.”
I guess he needs to find a babysitter the child will ignore as much as he ignores his father.
I guess the “wiretapping” law in Illinois only applies when you record police brutality...
The law in Illinois is, video but no audio and I doubt that it applies in one's own home anyway.
You know I am the mother of this child and Erin was somewhat of a friend. We never knew of her back ground . she lied about everything she came to us homeless and I as well as my mother in law always gives people a chance. She couldn’t see this person on the street. I am very upset as well as our whole family is that we took this woman in on the condition that she change her ways. We didn’t know the extent of her background and in Illinois if you want a background check you have to pay for it. My son stays at home with me know and will be under going a lot of therapy as well as our whole family. My fiance was and is the sole provider for our family and I know what any parent would want to do but Erin didn’t look like this. I pray for this woman that the court gives justice to my son. I cry everynight after seeing the video I can’t sleep at night so maiking the remarks that people make is completely way off. If u needed someone to watch ur child and this woman has been coming around for years and was good with my son at first but it escalated to the worst and we blame ourselves .So my ? to you people is what would have u done we r a young couple getting started in a 2 bedroom home trying to expand our horizons im sure all you older people can appreciate we want better for our family. it was a mistake...but you tell me how many of u have made them 2 and we r all suffering now..
I'm sorry for your misfortune.
5.56mm
I hope you're telling the truth, Ms. Carlos.
To be fair, the conviction took place during the Taft administration. Back then, she was almost cute.
Know that the Lord is waiting to heal and richly bless you.
Meanwhile, you should consider attending classes at your local community college to improve your writing and grammar skills.
Just sayin...
She couldn’t have looked any good back than either.
I mean Ugh!
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