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Mom accused of putting bleach into toddler's eyes (Words fail me)
Fox News ^ | May 1, 2012

Posted on 05/01/2012 3:47:14 AM PDT by Kaslin

Authorities say a Washington mother repeatedly put bleach into her toddler daughter's eyes, causing permanent vision loss in child's right eye, Q13 Fox reports.

29-year-old Jennifer Mothershead pled not guilty to charges of first-degree child assault Monday.

Authorities say Mothershead was given antibiotics and eye drops in March 2011 for her toddler daughter after the child came to a local hospital with an eye issue. Mothershead told doctors her daughter had scratched her eye while playing in a barn, according to Q13 Fox.

Authorities claim Mothershead's then-14-month-old daughter was airlifted to the hospital with a serious head injury in May 2011. Authorities grew concerned when Mothershead reportedly had no explanation for what had happened.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: childabuse; tacoma; washington
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1 posted on 05/01/2012 3:47:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Jennifer Mothershead

Poorly named.

Properly, it would be Jennifer Evilmothershead

2 posted on 05/01/2012 3:48:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Admin Moderator refuses to let me hit it. -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2875871/posts)
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To: Lazamataz

I had to look twice at the name


3 posted on 05/01/2012 3:54:31 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Disgusting. I don’t think there is much that infuriates people more than this kind of extreme child abuse. Whether the abuse was done out of ignorance or malevolence, doesn’t matter. I’ll bet lots of folks would just like to strangle this dumb woman and I’m one of them. God, she’s just too disgusting to draw another breath.


4 posted on 05/01/2012 4:11:58 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Kaslin

I read the story hoping to understand a little better. This lady put bleach in a bottle of eye drops and was repeatedly putting it in the girls eyes.

Make you want to do the same to her.


5 posted on 05/01/2012 4:14:25 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Lazamataz

I’d hit it...

... with a baseball bat!


6 posted on 05/01/2012 4:15:13 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Kaslin

I think that Dante had a special ring of hell reserved for people like this “mother”.


7 posted on 05/01/2012 4:19:03 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: mc5cents

Why not “an eye for an eye”? Seems this woman like to serve out pain, why not give her some of her own medcine?


8 posted on 05/01/2012 4:35:12 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: mc5cents

Why not “an eye for an eye”? Seems this woman like to serve out pain, why not give her some of her own medcine?


9 posted on 05/01/2012 4:35:13 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Kaslin

Words do not fail me.
This women, if proved guilty, should be placed in stocks in the town center and publicly whipped.


10 posted on 05/01/2012 5:13:58 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Kaslin

This is evil. Nothing but evil. I hope she rots in jail for the rest of her miserable life.


11 posted on 05/01/2012 5:17:33 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (2012 isn't an election - it's a restraining order.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

bttt


12 posted on 05/01/2012 5:18:03 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: reagan_fanatic

And in hell


13 posted on 05/01/2012 5:23:43 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

The face of evil - unattractive but surprisingly ordinary.

14 posted on 05/01/2012 5:37:12 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Can we afford as much government as welfare-addicted voters demand?)
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To: Kaslin
The article was rather poorly written, so I searched Google for others.

Jennifer Mothershead accused of putting bleach in daughter's eyes, causing permanent vision loss

Posted: 7:54 AM
Last Updated: 37 minutes ago KCPQ-TV

TACOMA, Wash. — A Bonney Lake mother who prosecutors say repeatedly bleached her child's eyes, causing permanent vision damage, was charged Monday with first-degree child assault.

Jennifer Mothershead, 29, pleaded not guilty and her bail was set at $150,000.

In May 2011, Mothershead's 15-month-old daughter was airlifted from Tacoma to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center after suffering a blow to the head. While treating her, medical staff noticed that a previously diagnosed eye condition had worsened.

Mothershead told authorities that her daughter was sleeping up to 22 hours a day because exposure to sunlight had become extremely painful to her eyes.

Mothershead admitted that she had given the child eye medication. She also said her daughter was a "fighter" when it came to the eye drops. Mothershead did not explain how the girl attained the initial head injury, and the child was taken into protective custody.

When hospital staff and detectives investigated the eye drops that the child had been administered, they noticed a strong odor. A detective said the drops causd a minor burning sensation when placed on his wrist.

"One of the things our detectives were concerned about was a lack of concern for the toddler from the mom and we started looking into it," Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said. "We found one of the eye drop bottles of chemicals, which basically burned our detectives. It obviously wasn't something that should be going in someone's eyes."

After testing at the Food and Drug Administration's Forensic Chemistry labs, scientists determined that the eye drops contained bleach. The child's eye injuries were consistent with bleach exposure, and the child had suffered to an extent that they ruled out the possibility that the dropper had simply been cleaned with bleach.

"Our Special Assault Unit vigorously prosecutes cases of child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault," Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said. "Those who victimize the most vulnerable members of our community are held accountable by deputy prosecutors who specialize in these particularly unsettling cases."

The victim, who is now 2 years old, has been living with her biological father since last spring.


15 posted on 05/01/2012 5:48:22 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Kaslin

I can’t even bring myself to read this. Just the headline makes cold chills run over me. What is WRONG with people??


16 posted on 05/01/2012 6:05:39 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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Other articles about this incident mention that the mother is also being investigated for a head injury to the child.


17 posted on 05/01/2012 6:12:39 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

Holy cow. Like someone else said-—stocks, and public whipping.


18 posted on 05/01/2012 6:25:39 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: Kaslin

WTH??? Seriously, what is WRONG with this woman? “Getting back” at the baby’s daddy? Custody fight? Munchhausen’s by Proxy? My God, this world is so evil.


19 posted on 05/01/2012 6:37:05 AM PDT by Student0165 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Kaslin

Bullet ..... brain, comes to mind.


20 posted on 05/01/2012 7:08:54 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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