CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A Lancaster family is planning a funeral for a five-month-old boy.
They decided to take Bryce Short off life support Monday night.
Now his father, 22-year-old Allen Short, is charged with homicide by child abuse.
Sheriff’s deputies say Short admitted shaking the baby several times on Dec. 3 when he wouldn’t stop crying. He and the child were at a relative’s home on Pineview Drive.
Short faces 20 years to life in prison.
Shaking a baby does tend to cause brain damage. Brain damage tends to cause eugenics driven bioethicking.
The parents of a little boy, nearly two years old, are helping him heal from devastating injuries likely caused by child abuse.
Isaac Gunter was scalded by boiling water last May, with burns over 30 percent of his body. He was in the care of his stepfather at the time, who was also burned. But two weeks after Isaac got out of the hospital, he was transported by helicopter, again, to the emergency room. Isaac's head had been beaten, his arm fractured, he was paralyzed on one side and blinded in one eye.
If he'd been denied medical attention, as so many brain injured patients are, he'd be dead now. As heart wrenching as it is reading about children being abused, it's refreshing to read about parents who love their children unconditionally.
Whole lot of bioethicking going on. One wonders if the premise of abortion that children can be disposed of at one's convenience, carries over to older children and leads to this kind of abuse?