[RobRoy]

I have a hard time reconciling these two statements:

"booked Dec. 10 on charges of child desertion and criminal negligence"

"The Hansches were asleep on a mattress on the floor and the baby in a carrier next to the mattress when her cries woke them."

If the only problem was that a ferret was not caged, that is hardly criminal negligence. And a baby sleeping next to your mattress where you are sleeping is certainly not desertion.

I don't get it.

[GOPPachyderm]

Four toes!? Four - how long was the ferret and/or 6-week old puppy chewing before parents said "hey, maybe we should stop this!"

[pandoraou812]

If the only problem was that a ferret was not caged, that is hardly criminal negligence. And a baby sleeping next to your mattress where you are sleeping is certainly not desertion.

Do you know anything about ferrets? As you can read the baby is missing toes. People will any kind of sense don't allow animals to be loose around babies. I don't know the laws of that state but a child was put in danger . That is child endangerment. How these two parents slept through their child's screams of pain is way beyond me. Maybe the police feel they were not there when the baby was being chewed upon. That would make sense as I am very sure the baby's screams of pain would have woke the dead. As a mother of 6 children I can tell you that once you have a baby your sleep is never the same as it was before you had children. Matter of fact ask most mothers. Your brain tunes into the slightest sounds your baby makes. If they were right next to that baby the mother would have woke up unless she was in a drunken or drugged stupor. Can you get this? If you were sleeping next to that child while an animal was chewing its toes off would you have woke up?

[paulat]

If the only problem was that a ferret was not caged, that is hardly criminal negligence. And a baby sleeping next to your mattress where you are sleeping is certainly not desertion.

I don't get it.

I think #165 nails what really happened.

[kanawa]

I don't get it.

Louisiana Revised Statute 14:93.2.1, says

"Child desertion is the intentional or criminally negligent exposure of a child under the age of 10 years, by a person who has the care, custody, or control of the child, to a hazard or danger against which the child cannot reasonably be expected to protect himself, or the desertion or abandonment of such child, knowing or having reason to believe that the child could be exposed to such hazard or danger."

If convicted, the parents face only a fine of up to $500 and up to six months in prison
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