Kaevon Neal Got Shaken, Not Stirred
Columbus, Ohio - See that picture? That’s Kaevon Neal. He’s twenty-one months old, and he’s been in a coma since March 18, when a friend of his mother’s is accused of shaking him nearly to death. Police arrested Levi Blaney, 18, on Saturday. Police were waiting to see whether the baby would live before filing charges against Blaney, who was taking care of Kaevon when he was injured.
Kaevon’s mother is Katera Neal, 19. She apparently would leave Kaevon with her best friend, Bethany Wagoner (Myspace), when she needed a break. But on March 18, both Katera Neal and Wagoner had a class, so they left Kaevon with Bethany’s boyfriend, Levi Blaney (Myspace). Shortly after arriving at their class, Blaney began calling and texting Neal and Wagner, telling them something was wrong with the one-year-old.
Blaney told police and doctors that Kaevon had fallen and hit his head and “wasn’t acting right”, but medical staff called shenanigans when CT scans of baby Kaevon’s brain showed severe shearing injuries to the right side of the brain. Shearing injuries aren’t consistent with a single fall, but are most often caused by forceful shaking. The brain bounces around like jello in a bowl, and the brain tissue itself develops uneven tears from the richocet effect. Little Kaevon has yet to regain consciousness and is still in serious condition. Chances are that if Kaevon survives his traumatic injuries, he will have irreversible brain damage. Doctors say his prognosis is “not good”.
Levi Blaney was in court Monday for a bond hearing. He is charged with felonious assault, child endangering and attempted murder, and his bond is set at $500,000.
That photo is heartbreaking. =(
How horrible, that pic breaks my heart. Why? How could you hurt a sweet baby?
My boys piss me off, I understand being frustrated, I do, walk away breath, but please do not harm innocent babies, wtf, I’m crying dammit!!!
Levi,
You are a piece of shit you cock sucking asshole! No amount of jail time will ever make up for your actions. I hate people like you, ASSHOLE!
it’s awful, isn’t it? But that’s how babies look after they get shaken. People need to see that.
But here’s one of Kaevon “before”:
Damn, Imp, that second pic was even more heartbreaking than the first, because he looks so happy, and now he’ll probably never get to smile or laugh again. Somebody needs to shake Levi until he is in a coma.
Or….keeping in line with his name (Levi) maybe he should be put in a big washing machine, and stone-washed - only without the water. Fucking bastard!
Fuck that is horrible, and your right Imp, people need to see that. Pediatrics is one place I could never work. I floated on Peds. a couple times when they needed extra help, but always refused job offers. I cannot stand to see a baby like that.
The motherfucker that did this, needs to be shaken so hard his fucking brain bleeds. Damn, that shit makes me teary-eyed. Poor, poor little baby, just trying to survive, just trying to make it in this world…and then Levi the baby-shaker steps the fuck in and ruins it all. ASSHAT!
I would like to shake the shit out of that POS. Why would and How could anyone do that to a baby?
WTF!!!! He’s a baby, not a fucking cocktail!!! If he’s crying, either feed him, change his diaper, or just fucking pick him up and hold him and he’ll shut up. Shaking does absolutely nothing to make him understand that you want him to be quiet!!!! You talk and all he hears is “parle vous francais”. Fucking POS!!!
OK, people. I am going to let some of the asshats and fucktards of the world, who might be reading this site (if there are any), benefit from the almost 19 years of experience I have to date, when dealing with screaming babies. It also works on small children, and occasionally teens.
1. DON’T FUCKING SHAKE THEM! This only serves to piss them off further, and make them cry even louder until you manage to put them in a coma from the shearing injuries and brain bleeds.
2. You can try checking the ‘tiny tot three’ - food, feces, and fever. If none of those pan out for you, then you can go on to step three.
3. Pick them up and rock them. If you cannot afford a rocking chair, or have hemorrhoids so bad that sitting is a problem for you, walking around with the child while humming or talking softly will often work. And you know, it really doesn’t matter what you say, because they really don’t understand words anyway. At least the really small ones don’t. It wouldn’t be my first choice of something to say, but if it keeps you from being violent, you may, in a sweet, singsong voice, soothingly repeat the phrase, “Sweet little baby, will you please shut the fuck up”, over and over. Only for the ones who don’t understand yet, though. For the older ones you could try something a little more advanced. In the same gentle and sweet voice you could say, “Reticence is a virtue, and virtues are good, please calm down, or you’ll go to the hood”. Up until they are about four, they will think you are offering to buy them a rain slicker with a hood. If that doesn’t work you should then try my personal favorite….
4. When a baby is crying, and will not stop, sometimes you can ‘cry’ right back at them, and the surprise of hearing that noise from an adult will usually shock them into silence. And the faces they make are priceless. That combination of shock, wonder, and confusion, will leave an adorable and pleasing configuration of features on the baby/toddler’s face. You might even want to have a camera ready. I managed to get some of my best “dating blackmail’ pictures of each of my children in this way. And even if the reprieve from crying only lasts a few seconds before they start up again, that little trick will usually put YOU in a better mood, so you will be better able to deal with the bleeding eardrums your child has caused you. Oh, and this trick will often work multiple times IN A ROW. When the crying starts up again after the initial shock wears off, you can immediately do it again! I think it has something to do with the fact that small children often have the attention span of a gnat. And finally…….
5. If none of these things work for you, or the baby, simply place the child in a crib or playpen, or somewhere that they will not be able to hurt themselves, and LEAVE THE FUCKING ROOM!!! Go into the living room, turn on the TV or radio, as loud as it takes to muffle the crying, and chant this mantra “I am a good parent, because I am not trying to kill my child.” After every five or ten repeats of the mantra, turn down the volume on whatever entertainment device you have employed, and listen for any continued screaming. If you don’t hear anything, GO CHECK ON THE CHILD. Make sure he is still breathing. If the child is still screaming, there is no need to check, because dead children don’t usually cry.
Do not ignore the child for an extended period of time. Make sure you check on them no less than every 15-20 seconds. This is to ensure that the child does not choke to death on the snot accumulated from the crying. If the child has not calmed down sufficiently within 15-30 minutes, please, for the love of Pete, just go ahead and take the kid to a doctor’s office or emergency room. No, they are probably not sick, but if you have a screaming child in a public place, you are much less likely to shake the living shit out of them, you fucking moron!
I hope these valuable tips will be of some help to you at 3:00 in the morning when Junior is making more noise than a B-1 at Mach 2. Thank you for your attention, and I will now return you to your regularly scheduled programming of the good parents on this site telling you what a complete idiot you are, and how a piranha would make a better parent to your child,and probably give him a better chance at survival than you would.
Now we’ll have the people coming here to tell us that “teenage babysitters do not always make the best decisions!” The asshole could not take care of a baby for the length of ONE CLASS without as good as killing him! I just pray Levi isn’t a father. We don’t need his crap in the gene pool.
This is such sweet advice. Babies really do care when other people are hurting. They get so concerned when an adult “cries.” They are such dear little social creatures, loving their stuffed animals, smiling just to see someone smiling at them.
That… photo… God I just want to cry… Wow… I just want to cry and wish that kid dead…
Ki
No, IO, not the babysitter? I was sure you meant the baby, because all of us here at D’D hate kids so much…….LOL. I understood you correctly on the first post, but thanks for the clarification, anyway. Now we won’t have disgruntled assholes coming on here to defend their POS relatives, and wasting our valuable time by responding to a misinterpretation of your comment. Because, you just know they are stupid enough to do something like that.
Angel real damn good advise big time kudos. I’m a mother of 2 (4yr old & 7 mnths), and have not tried all of thoses! I do administer time-outs on myself to give me a chance for a second wind. Also, my 4 yr. loves it when I say, Mama is getting a time out NOW!
I want mommy time out… damn, where do I get that at? What about a second wind… are they expensive? To my older kids “goto your room I need some quiet time” may work…
God that’s a hard photo to look at…brings back memories of when Coen was in the NICU (for months). It is the most confronting thing in the world to stand in a room full of babies, who should be crying, laughing, cooing, wriggling…but instead everything is deathly still, and all you can hear is the beeping and artificial breathing sounds of the machinery struggling to keep these babies alive.
And that second photo? Oh lord, you know that little boy is gone for good, he will never be that same bright, mischievous, impish with such life and joy in his eyes. My heart is breaking for this poor child.
I rarely get a chance for a ‘time-out’, but I have perfected the technique I like to call “tune-out”. It works especially well when the kids are yelling at each other, and refuse to try to get along. I go to my ‘happy place’ and only come out if there is blood, or the house is on fire. LOL. I can only stay there for a little while tho, or my sweet angel hellions would completely destroy my house!
I’ve got 38 acres, I just throw them outside into the wilderness…hee!
Can I come for a visit, so I can throw mine out there too?
I have a fenced in backyard that’s about an acre, and they get bored pretty quick with that. There’s only so much you can do on a jungle gym, before you get tired of it…
sure…although I hafta warn you, my best friend and her husband have already had the same idea, and moved here with their five too, so with your six that would be 16 kids pmsl.
Oh, SHIT! Maybe I should just stay here…..Plane tickets for all of us would kill the household budget for a couple of years, anyway. We’d have to eat beans and rice for the next three years to make up for it.
Aww Wry, that is so true. When I see baby pics of my son, I start crying because I miss that time with him so much, they are so precious.
When my kids were younger and used to act up (like they don’t anymore, right? LOL) I used to say ‘Mommy is going to her happy place!’. That used to crack them up! They’d ask if they could go there too and all the while they’d be in the fits of laughter.
I was 18 when I got pregnant on my first child. During my pre-natal classes, I told the nurse that I was worried about being a mom. I was afraid that if the baby was crying non-stop, I might not be able to do anything other than put him in his crib and walk away. (I was young and thought that was not the thng to do). The nurse then told me that’s EXACTLY what you do, that walking away makes me a good parent, not a bad one. I only had to use that method a handful of times, even when I had my second child, and she was colic! The fact that she was crying did not bother me as much as not knowing why she was crying. When I researched the topic a little more, I discovered that babies who are held for long periods before the crying bout begins, cry less. Needless to say, that child was in my arms constantly. Harm her? Never! She was already crying and screaming hysterically, the last she needed was for someone to make it worse! I didn’t know what was making her so upset but I sure as fuck knew a shaking would not fix it.
You know what really pisses me off? The fact that this mother has to now raise a special needs child because some asshole lost his patience. The baby she knew and loved is as dead and gone as if he had truly died. I hope she has some good supports because the fact that she had to use that guy as a babysitter in the first place instead of her own family doesn’t make her situation sound too promising.
Angel that advice was spot on.
If only they handed out that on a poster for their walls after all we are dealing with that part of the public who decorate their walls like that.
I am sure it would save a few babies.
I to have mastered the tune out that is a skill i think most Good Moms learn by the time their kids reach 10 or 11.
Sadly though some Moms use it for the wrong thing like when kids are talking to them. TSK TSK
Wonderful advice, Angel. This should be printed and handed out to every mother that leaves the hospital with her baby.
Angel darling, you absolutely rock, sister.
I feel for the mother, but I have to say that people should be careful who they leave their kids alone with. even for just a couple of hours. I dont think I would have left my baby alone with an 18 year old bf of a friend, but I understand that not everyone is in the same situation and has the same resources. But damn, I just wish people would take that into consideration before having kids. I was guilty of this myself, getting pregnant at 19 with my son, thinking that everything would work itself out. If only it were that easy
That’s only because I have such good role models here at D’D, to show me the way.
Let’s work on that shall we? We could come up with the D’D parenting poster, and an accompanying manual. I’m sure I’m not the only one here who has some useful parenting advice. And it might generate some revenue for D’D, as well. What could we call the manual? “D’D, How Not to Kill Your Kid” Nah, that sounds kinda crappy. Anybody got any ideas?
“How to stop your couch eating your baby - and other handy Parenting hints by the Dreamin’ Demon”
LOL, GC20K! I had forgotten all about that evil couch in my earlier rantings…. *giggle*
The story makes you mad enough but seeing bthat picture really hits home!
The photo really pounds this home. The little boy is lying like no child ever sleeps, on his back, arms hanging, head straight like a corpse, and all over him crawls the parephenalia that keeps him alive. Terrible photo, good for everyone to see the reality of shaking trauma.
*dies laughing* I have perfected that “Tune-Out”… So well they will sit there and look at me and go “mom… mom… mom… MOM!” - Its sounds bad to some people but my two older ones fight and bicker like no one’s business! I can’t help but tune-out now and again to save my own sanity, or I might be one of the posts ‘In todays’ news, ImmortalOne decided that her 15yr old and 10yr old would be great lawn ornaments!’
As far as walking away… That is so true and while the crying may break your heart/grate on your nerves/whatever… It is so beyond the best parenting skill known to any creature (others just eat their young). With being pregnant at 16 and having my first at such a young age, I knew better than to shake her or take my anger out on her. It wasn’t her fault, she never asked to be born into this world… I guess not everyone thinks like that.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=87424914&albumID=291996&imageID=6072445
you know… Is this baby in the bestfriends profile pictures, the one that was injured? If so.. why is he (or whatever child) chewing on that bottle in the pictures under her profile? *sigh* I just noticed these kids are in Columbus (I moved from there about 18 months ago)… *sigh* sick, party town USA
FUCK that bullshit! I was a teenage babysitter, I may not have been CPR qualifed, I may not have been RedCross Certified, I know not TO KILL a BABY! And I know how NOT TOO!
My sentiments for sentencing child battering Blaney, in lyrics from one of my favourite bands, the Tall Shirts:
Kill the pig-kill the pig,
Smash his head-smash his head
tonight we’re reall gonna have a party
and KILL THE PIG!
Catchy tune, Bornagain….I LIIIIKE it!
Reminds me a bit of the chant from Lord of the Flies.
Awesome book.
whatever you guys are all just big fucking losers
just because he was left alone with levi doenst mean he fucking
did this so im ganan tell yout o keep your fucking mouth closed
until you no him dont fucking jump to conclusion
even though its may look bad
thats fucking wrong
so stop fucking writing shit about this
hey anoymous (lol, you got the ‘anoy’ part right right) you are a fucking idiot. This thread has been closed for almost a month. Nobody was talking about your POS friend.
But I would LOVE to start in on him again.
Pull your head out of your ass man and learn to spell, punctuate and get a command of the fucking English language if you are going to post here.
You need to get a clue darlin because Kaevon didn’t shake himself, your baby beating scumbag friend Levi did. Go defend him somewhere else because nobody here gives a rats ass about him.
I wish I knew what “im ganan tell yout o keep” means. Will turn to books as I usually do.
“Gagan” — Gan. from ‘ganan’ (1598); a garden (as fenced):–garden. It also seems to be the name of a province in China’s Tibet.
“Yout” — Ute (yt, y`tÄ“), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock
That’s really no help. When dictionaries fail you ….
Also, we have someone here who thinks “fucking” is an all-purpose adjective. In this post we have:
big fucking losers
fuckingdid this
fucking mouth
fucking jump
fucking wrong
The only thing that makes sense to me is where s/he says, “… keep your fucking mouth closeduntil you no him.” I think “no him” means we should kill him, “no” him from the world. I can agree with that. But I think we should fucking keep our mouths shut AFTER we’ve “no’ed” him. That way the police won’t know we no’ed him.
Tell ya what, blood, why don’t you give the cops a call and let them know how pissed you are that they “jumped to conclusions” and arrested your good friend and paragon of virtue Levi? Cuz, you know if it wasn’t for the fuckin’ pigs, we wouldn’t even be writing this shit.
Fuck.
LMAO….too bad this dumb shit won’t be able to appreciate your humor Wry, as it involves big words.
Why thank you for giving me an even bigger reason to tell you to GO FUCK YOURSELF!
This child could not have possibly shook himself into a coma. What part of that equation are you not getting? You want to put yourself on the fucking fire with this aggressive cocksucker be prepared for the backlash. Your eloquent use of the English language makes me think I should dumb this down for you.
FUCK YOU and the horse you rode in on. Was that simple enough for you? This baby, cause that’s what he is, is the victim here. Not Levi or Jim Bob or who ever else you would like to pass the blame on to. So your upset. We got that. You want to do some good turn that pointy little finger towards the correct person. The person responsible for loosing his shit on a baby.LEVI. Real big fucking man there.
Twatwaffle is too nice for you.
CUNTBUBBLE…ah.. that’s perfect.
LOL !!!
Has been nearly 2 months now - How is Kaevon ??? What kind of Medical problems and Treatments is he receiving at the moment ? He will turn 2 years old next month ? ~ can you Tell us more about him? what are his favorite things ? I might like to send him something.
Two months later..
Levi’s girlfriend, who left Kaevon with him, still has Levi as her top friend on Myspace. Katera Neal doesn’t have a Myspace anymore. Some dumbassed girl who can’t spell thinks Levi’s innocent but can’t offer an alternate scenario (and if that’s her Myspace, nice public nipple shot!).
And i can’t find a single update on that baby.