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Parents charged in grisly assault of infant daughter
kvia.com ^ | 02-05-05 | kvia

Posted on 02/05/2005 10:22:53 AM PST by FITZ

HOUSTON Police say a 6-month-old Houston girl was sexually assaulted, had her tongue nearly severed and suffered broken bones from head to toe.

She's clinging to life today, and her parents have been charged with injury to a child.

The infant is in critical condition at Texas Children's Hospital.

Twenty-one-year-old Ivan Castaneda and 19-year-old Donna Marie Norman brought their daughter to the hospital Wednesday.

Child Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin says Castaneda and Norman originally took the baby to a hospital in north Houston to be treated for congestion.

Doctors, however, discovered the baby had severe internal and external injuries and transferred her to Texas Children's Hospital, where medical officials contacted police.

Officers interviewed and arrested the baby's parents.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: babymurder; childabuse
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Too many baby killings --- I wonder if the epidemic of meth has anything to do with it.
1 posted on 02/05/2005 10:22:54 AM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ

You may be right....


2 posted on 02/05/2005 10:24:48 AM PST by teldon30
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To: FITZ

These people need to be impaled on a stake and left in the desert to die.


3 posted on 02/05/2005 10:25:00 AM PST by thoughtomator (The Democrat party is a bribery racket)
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To: FITZ

"Twenty-one-year-old Ivan Castaneda and 19-year-old Donna Marie Norman brought their daughter to the hospital Wednesday."

I always wonder what they are thinking when they switch from assualter back to parent mode. Do they really think they won't be found out?

Really, people like this should be executed.


4 posted on 02/05/2005 10:26:06 AM PST by jocon307 (Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
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To: thoughtomator
These people need to be impaled on a stake and left in the desert to die.

Or buried up to their neck next to a fire-ant hill.

5 posted on 02/05/2005 10:26:23 AM PST by just me (Over 59,000,000 Americans voted not to negotiate with terrorist.....)
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To: jocon307

Maybe it's matter of IQ or something. We had a case here where they brought in a baby that was OD'd --- the father right away told the doctors they gave the baby drugs to keep him from crying. I guess they didn't realize their infant couldn't handle the same dose as they could.


6 posted on 02/05/2005 10:28:26 AM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ

I hope this pair finds their names have not been written in the Book of The Living.


7 posted on 02/05/2005 10:29:18 AM PST by spower
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To: thoughtomator

Or, have their knees broken and left in the desert crawl around and die.


8 posted on 02/05/2005 10:29:38 AM PST by Isabelle
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To: FITZ
Stories like this make me sick. It's time to start making an example out of these people. A young couple here in Wyoming killed their 19 month old daughter. Turns out they had been torturing her for at least a year. She had cigarette burns from head to toe and several new/old fractured bones. They killed her by hanging her by her bib overalls in a closet. The prosecutor is talking about the death penalty. It will be a real government service to society if they get.
9 posted on 02/05/2005 10:31:14 AM PST by rwh
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To: FITZ

If proven guilty, these subhumans deserve the death penalty.


11 posted on 02/05/2005 10:32:04 AM PST by Kurt_D
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To: thoughtomator

I think they should receive 3 squares a day, a trip to the salad bar, a nice mattress with blankets, daily visits to the gym and their own cable TV. How horrific is the truth!!!


12 posted on 02/05/2005 10:32:41 AM PST by Luigi Vasellini
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Police say a 6-month-old Houston girl was sexually assaulted, had her tongue nearly severed and suffered broken bones from head to toe.

This is what capital punishment is for.

13 posted on 02/05/2005 10:33:18 AM PST by Prince Charles
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To: FITZ

Clarification --- I think it's maybe IQ that makes them not realize taking the baby to the doctor isn't going to get them in trouble --- but not IQ that makes them hurt the child in the first place. Animal parents show far more compassion and nurturing than these humans.


14 posted on 02/05/2005 10:36:19 AM PST by FITZ
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To: Prince Charles
This is what capital punishment is for.

Simply put, and well-said!

15 posted on 02/05/2005 10:36:23 AM PST by JennysCool (I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
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To: Prince Charles

And then some.


16 posted on 02/05/2005 10:36:40 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: FITZ

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3023824

More info......these two scumbags have another daughter 15 months old, also possibly abused.

Also notice they never bothered to get married.......gotta keep those welfare checks coming, I guess.


17 posted on 02/05/2005 10:37:25 AM PST by txdoda ("Navy Brat")
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To: FITZ

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4166328/detail.html
Parents Charged In 'Worst Case Of Abuse Ever Seen'
Parents Could Face Capital Murder Charge If 6-Month-Old Daughter Dies

"This is the worst case of abuse that I've personally seen," Houston Police Department Sgt. Randy Upton said. "She had some skull fractures, brain contusions, hemorrhaging, liver injuries, lung and kidney problems, signs of sexual abuse, as well as a severe laceration across her tongue."

This gives more gruesome detail..God forgive me for how I feel about what these parents deserve.

Child welfare had them in their sights over another child earlier..Grrrrrr


18 posted on 02/05/2005 10:37:47 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Pookyhead

It's like the case in NM the other week --- a 5 week old baby --- the father admits to deliberately breaking her leg bones and ribs --- yet the parents took her to the hospital when she was close to death.


19 posted on 02/05/2005 10:37:54 AM PST by FITZ
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"Maybe it's matter of IQ or something."

I'd agree with you, but then I recall Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum. They were both sick and murderous people, but I'm quite sure their IQs were up near the top.

Nah, it ain't smart vs. stupid; it's good vs. evil.


20 posted on 02/05/2005 10:38:42 AM PST by jocon307 (Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
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