Posted on 06/01/2013 10:19:25 PM PDT by chessplayer
In a shocking case of child neglect, a Washington man appeared in court in Tacoma on Tuesday accused of putting his six-week-old daughter in a freezer to stop her crying and then falling asleep.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told the court that Deutsch fell asleep after putting the child in the freezer on Saturday, then awoke after an hour and was removing the baby when the horrified child’s 22-year-old mother returned.
He’s accused of taking the phone away when the mother tried to call for help from their trailer in Roy, Washington. The mother took the child and got neighbors to call police.
Prosecutors say the child’s core temperature fell to 84 degrees in the 10-degree freezer. She also had a broken arm, a broken leg, blisters on her feet and a head injury.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Fascinating! Maybe the “blowing bubbles” sound makes them remember the “shshsh-shshsh” sounds of amniotic fluid when they were in the womb?
Nice, creative way to quiet the baby down. “Huh? What’s that?”
Pre 1970s America was not stingy in giving babies drugs and alcohol to quiet them, I can’t remember the name of the drug that was popular for babies.
The sensitivity to that came in the late 1960s forward.
Gripe water?
I found it, it was always being pushed on me to give to my son, Paregoric.
From an article “”When my children were little, I and everyone I knew kept a bottle of paregoric in the medicine chest. Paregoric was a wonderful liquid that after a few drops gave instant relief from gas pains caused by milk. It also was used to rub on babies’ gums when they were teething.
I never realized it, but one of paregoric’s ingredients is powdered opium. Until the government stepped in, one could go to the drugstore and buy this magical potion over the counter. It no longer is available in the U.S. because of regulations about the use of unapproved drugs.””
Butter and sugar, wrapped in a cotton swath, nipple like and started with warm water or milk. A sugar tit.
It is @$$#0/e$ like this that give Child Protective Services all the cover they need to give grief to other normal parents.
May the sordid details follow him to prison.
Tomorrows headline, if he isn’t in isolation: ‘Deadbeat Dad Beat Dead.’
This jackass was Jeannine Pirro’s “Creep of the Week” tonight on her show.
She did not mince around with weasel words like “alleged”. She just saud that she hoped that they would throw him into the darkest, coldes hole theycould find in the Washington State prison system after he was tried and convicted.
She was HOT under the collar.
Can’t be a good sign for a court-appointed defense attorney when you first meet your client in jail and they’re wearing a stab resistant vest.
I don’t see “wife” or “husband” anywhere in the linked article.
I can’t help but wonder, even though he was the father of the child and living with the child’s mother, if the child would have been safer with her father had she been conceived in wedlock.
You mean even babies like smack?
This guy looks like a druggie, a drunk or both. Where you have abuses of controlled substances, you could most be assured that any children are neglected or abused. The drugs or the drinks become far more important than the babies.
Never so much as then did I realize how much that my little girl relied on me. It made us closer, not farther apart. She was the first, but that remained.
It is only those who think only of themselves who could put their inconvenience ahead of their baby's pain.
True, that.
Someone needs to take an axe to that POS.
paragor?
Being in the freezer did not give her those injuries.
Very poorly written article. Most British newspaper writers can still write intelligibly, but apparently the rot is spreading even to UK.
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