Florida - People driving around the Fiske and Dixon Boulevard intersection in Cocoa witnessed Delores, 55, beating her 2-year-old grandson. Witnesses observed Delores slapping the child with an open hand, dumping him out of his stroller on to the sidewalk, where he hit his head, and then sling him back into the stroller and continue hitting him. At one point during the attack, the boy was unconscious.
The responding police officer witnessed some of the attack and describe the boy as a rag doll. The oficer had to wrestle the boy away from Delores. “The child was walking toward traffic and the officer was still struggling with her,” Barbara Matthews with Cocoa police said. “He was trying to make the decision to let go of her, grab the child and just then, fortunately for us, a witness came up and grabbed the child before he could get out into traffic.”
The boy was released from the hospital on Saturday night. Police did not receive an explanation from her about why she may have done this. However, she did make a short statement to reporters (in the video). “Hamorephadites. Klu Klux Klan Charlaklan,” she states.
The grandmother is charged with aggravated battery and child abuse. She is still in jail where she is probably talking to Jesus and swatting at imaginary demons.
15 responses so far ↓
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Kathy
Feb 18, 2008 at 10:59 am -Hermaphrodites, the KKK and Chaka-Kahn had something to do with this? I should have guessed…
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impqueen
Feb 18, 2008 at 11:16 am -I wish she’d have at least sung “I Feel For You” or something. I mean, if she’s gonna invoke the Chaka Khan, the least she can do is rap that first part.
Crazy bitch. Who leaves their child with a woman who’s babbling about the KKK? I hope that baby’s mama has a Myspace so we can find her and ridicule her at length. Because one does not go from perfectly normal to “Homo Morphodites” and baby-beating in the course of a morning.
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catlady
Feb 18, 2008 at 4:44 pm -Exactly. In an instance like this the patrents should be charged with child endangerment. When I looked at the photo and video of this woman, the first impression I had was that of looking at an angry, cornered wild animal. All kinds of scary, that one is. There is no way she could hide that she’s crazy and that anyone would leave a small child with this nutbar is inexplicable.
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Ruby
Feb 18, 2008 at 5:43 pm -Maybe she’s got custody because the child’s parents are stark raving loco. Y’ever think of that?
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impqueen
Feb 18, 2008 at 6:44 pm -Homo Erectus! Clues - Buy Me One! Sanjayaclan!
I’m actually finding the Trinity Of Insane Declarations to be kinda fun and stress relieving. Smacking a baby up, not so much, but maybe she’s onto something with the preachin’ part.
And no doubt you’re right. I’ll see what i can dig up.
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Ruby
Feb 18, 2008 at 6:57 pm -Hermeneutics! Clavinet! Uzbekistan!!
By George, I think you’re onto something….
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TalkingJesus
Feb 18, 2008 at 7:55 pm -She has been talking to Me, and I have come to the conclusion that she makes Britney Spears look sane.
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WryBread
Feb 18, 2008 at 8:36 pm -The usual suspects ….
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catlady
Feb 19, 2008 at 4:30 am -According to this article http://www.floridatoday.com/ap.....1/archives
“Matthews said Justin’s parents are divorcing and the father, Joseph Woods, has custody. His mother was watching the boy while he worked.”
Interesting that the dad has custody. That doesn’t happen often.
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solange822001
Feb 19, 2008 at 8:13 am -LMAO
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solange822001
Feb 19, 2008 at 8:21 am -Im sorry, I know a lot of people feel differently about this, and many of them are good parents, but… I refuse to hit my child when he misbehaves. I just can’t imagine trying to teach my child that violence solves nothing, but at the same time using violence myself to control him. It seems so hypocritical to me. i hope Im not making a mistake and raising some psycho brat, but it’s the decision that I have made
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Kathy
Feb 19, 2008 at 9:15 am -Solange, I totally respect your decision, but you have to realize there is a difference between discipline and abuse. This was a 2 year old and this was definitely abuse. There is a difference between spanking a child on the butt and beating him until he is unconscious. Anti-spanking people should not use these type of cases to support their decisions.
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WryBread
Feb 19, 2008 at 10:33 am -What a weird photo. It looks as if the flames of her insanity are engulfing her.
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WryBread
Feb 19, 2008 at 10:45 am -I’ve noticed that mother animals lightly cuff or even bite their babies to discipline them. It seems more a matter of reinforcing the message than causing physical pain. I’ve observed that toddlers seem to react to the shame of a little smack (and I do mean little) than any hurt. It’s as if their picture of themselves as “big people” gets a reality check and they are reminded who the parent is.
I’ve met a lot of very bratty, forward kids who “reason” and “argue” a point quite brilliantly until they wear Mommy down and get exactly what they want. They’ve been taught that everything is explained in detail and questions encouraged until THEY are satisfied with the reasons. Well, they learn to game this system and never be satisfied until they win through verbal endurance. A smack or two might be needed here. On the other hand, perhaps they will grow up to be wealthy lawyers!
So, I don’t know what’s best. It probably depends on the child. This woman was insane and I wonder why she wasn’t in a hospital.
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thepooh5
Feb 19, 2008 at 1:14 pm -No shit. I thought the picture strange, too. Morbid has all of these cool tools to work on pictures, I thought it was one of his touches. Maybe its just a crappy photo of crap.
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