Prosecutor: Mother used baby to beat boyfriend

Associated Press ^ | 10/09/06

[presidio9]

- A woman used her four-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.

The boy was in serious but stable condition Monday at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, police said.

"Never, never, never. I can never remember anything like this," District Attorney Bradley Foulk told the Erie Times-News.

Chytoria Graham, 27, of Erie, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. She was held Monday in the Erie County Jail in lieu of US$75,000 bail.

The infant, whose name was not released, suffered a fractured skull and some bleeding in the brain, authorities said. His head hit Graham's boyfriend, the baby's father, police Lt. Dan Spizarny said.

Authorities removed four other children from Graham's home and placed them with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth, Foulk said.

[Hegemony Cricket]

LOL! Methinks your new "FRiend" traded his copy of "English Fer Dummy's" for a quote book...

[Toby06]

Now we know what that guy does for a living. He's living off of book royalties.

[TheBattman]

Just a stab in the dark, but maybe it was the name that gave away the race???

[r9etb]

My financée is a pretty, fit (she ran the Marine Corp last year) and smart (she in med school) and was the first woman who wasn't a rapacious, grasping tyrant and that didn't treat me like a self-propelled ATM.

Wow. I guess you'll be bitching about your divorce before too long. I'm giving it about a year before a) you grow up and start behaving like a man; or b) your wife decides she's taken enough of your crap.

[TightyRighty]

Nope, I was on the treadmill; three miles in twenty minutes

Fascinating!

[trussell]

Dang Najida, you spanked that troll!!!!

[Toby06]

He may be goofy, but he's not a troll.

[Warren_Piece]

We need a new FReeperism to describe when someone takes a thread and changes the subject to make it all about him/her, and their strange personal issues.

Funny, every troll we've had on FR lately has been independently wealthy, a member of MENSA, and has a mate who is incredibly good looking and a fellow member of MENSA.

Must be nice...

[trussell]

He's been banned or suspended

[Apple Blossom]

Can we spell B-I-P-O-L-A-R?

[presidio9]

Can we spell B-I-P-O-L-A-R?

I'm guessing you don't know a heck of a lot about bipolar disorder. It doesn't make people violent.

[presidio9]

Just a stab in the dark, but maybe it was the name that gave away the race???

OK, but why is the woman's race in any way relevant? As I said before, plenty of white women abuse their children too. To refresh, the original comment was something like "Let me guess: She's black, right?"

Translation: Those black animals are constantly inventing new ways to beat up on their kids. Can I get you a white sheet and connical hat to go with that sentiment?

[Old_Mil]

Chytoria Graham

What a unique name.

[Old_Mil]

My financée is a pretty, fit (she ran the Marine Corp last year) and smart (she in med school) and was the first woman who wasn't a rapacious, grasping tyrant and that didn't treat me like a self-propelled ATM.

As you'll soon discover, being rapacious grasping tyrants are prerequisites for the women who are admitted to medical school.

[JusPasenThru]

"Do you like fried chicken?"

--Kramer vs. Kramer

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

My financée is a pretty, fit (she ran the Marine Corp last year) and smart (she in med school) and was the first woman who wasn't a rapacious, grasping tyrant and that didn't treat me like a self-propelled ATM.

OK, so you detest MOST women or ALMOST ALL women. I'm still not far off the mark, am I?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Regret to inform that I can find no way of parsing that as a meaningful statement.

Maybe he meant, "she be in med school."

[technochick99]

the first woman who wasn't a rapacious, grasping tyrant and that didn't treat me like a self-propelled ATM.

Congrats on finding a nice one. Since there are a lot of good women out there, I wonder why you chose so many losers before?

[TrogdortheBurninator]

OK, I'm pretty sure she wasn't the only one doing the beating. But she's getting the bad rap here. DON'T TAKE ME WRONG! I'm not defending her actions. I'm just wondering if the whole story's out here. It could be, in an act of desperation, while she and her bf were in an uproarious fight, that she, holding the baby, threw it to distract him.
Now, I AM NOT SAYING IT WAS OK TO THROW THE BABY. I'm simply stating that there is probably a lot that we don't know, before we go around throwing names like "subhuman". It's not like she was just sitting there and she threw her baby across the room, or plotted drowning them in a car.

[Froufrou]

I'm thinking Blossom was ref'ing the infamous ElTiante?