Posted on 11/27/2006 1:08:28 PM PST by presidio9
A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
Derrick Hardy faces charges of criminal negligence and assaulting the infant, who was rescued when her mother came home, the Charlottetown Guardian said.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the mother found the girl crammed into the freezer alongside ice cubes and hamburger meat. Hardy said he had left the door ajar but the mother said it had been closed when she returned.
He told a court in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island on Thursday the child had only been in the freezer for about 40 seconds.
Hardy, 21, who admitted to police that he had no real parenting skills to deal with a sick child, said he had noticed the girl was very hot and put a cool cloth on her face, but this had no effect.
He then carried the girl outside into the night air but, frustrated that this also did not work and worried she might drown if placed in a cold bath, he put the baby into the kitchen freezer. She was wearing only an undershirt.
A local doctor said the mother had described her baby as "crying, sobbing and terrified." The child spent several days in hospital to recover from first- and second-degree freezer burns on her head and torso.
Hardy has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The baby's grandmother now has custody of the girl.
40 seconds would not be long enough to produce the damage that required several days of hospitilization mentioned here. And, stupidity is not a sufficient enough reason to not know that placing a 10 month old in a freezer is dangerous. No, I'd be willing to wager the child was crying and he couldn't stand the noise - placing her in the freezer was a way to shut the child up. Horse whipping would be too good for this man.
I don't think it would take a very long time to give a feverish baby freezer burns if you placed her bare sweaty skin on the frozen blocks of meat in a freezer. She would probably stick to it in an instant and the damage would begin from the first couple of seconds.
Do the rules say anything about how McGilla Gorilla could be 1/2 the size of the Eiffel Tower in one scene and then comfortably be able to ride around in the back of a dune buggy or hang out in Mr. Peabody's shop in the next? That always sort of bothered me.
Because Canada doesn't have Socialized Medicine available to all.....HEY?
A local doctor said the mother had described her baby as "crying, sobbing and terrified."Better put some ice on that.
Amen. Violence. Sexual assault. The panolopy of crimes - all seem to mention the mother and her boyfriend.
It's right after the section on why Pluto acts like a dog, while all the other Disney critters act like people.
ICE ICE BABY, TOO COOL!
Reminds me of this lyric (circa approx 1989):
Like Sam the Butcher, bringing Alice the meat.
Like Fred Flinstone, driving around on bald feet.
What an idiot. You're supposed to put the baby in a plastic bag first.
Mr. Fields, What do you think about children?
Fields: "They're okay if they're not overdone."
"Err...9-1-1??"
He was so dumb he couldn't find an eleven after pressing the nine.
Hell, it's not that far from what would actually be done in the case of a high fever. I was put in a tub full of ice water (per advice of doctor) as a toddler with a raging fever. I howled like the damned too :-)
Hell, it's not that far from what would actually be done in the case of a high fever. I was put in a tub full of ice water (per advice of doctor) as a toddler with a raging fever.
I hate it every time I open one of those and somebody's baby is in it...
Too funny!
Too funny!
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