Destiny Renee Carswell Broke Her Baby
May 20, 2008 by impqueen
UPDATE – Brian Hollingworth is now also charged with abuse causing great bodily injury to a child in connection with the abuse of his son Lanedon. He is being held without bond. Details at the bottom of the article.
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Lyman, SC – Brian Hollingworth and Destiny Renee Carswell should be celebrating the arrival of their third son, born April 24. Instead, Destiny Carswell is in jail today, accused of abusing her newborn so badly that he has multiple fractures in various stages of healing. Most serious are the skull fractures that have left Brian and Destiny’s youngest son, Lanedon, in critical condition.
I don’t know if this baby has a name, or if I just haven’t been able to find it (edit: I wasn’t looking hard enough. It’s Lanedon) . The baby’s older brothers are named Jayden and Kierdyn, but while there are pictures of this newborn on family MyspaceMySpace
pages, nobody has called this baby boy by name except once, in a comment.
On Sunday, Brian Hollingworth (Myspace) took baby Lanedon to the hospital for what he called “seizure-like” behavior. But doctors there found serious injuries on the newborn. His skull was fractured in several places, and he had several broken ribs and a broken leg. Even more disturbing, it appeared that the various injuries were in different stages of healing, so that the baby was clearly beaten on more than one occasion.
Here’s what I wanna know: How do you get SO pissed off with your brand new baby that you break his bones on not one day, but at least two and probably three? HOW? Lanedon was transferred to a larger hospital, where he remains in critical condition in the pediatric ICU.
Police interviewed both parents and arrested Destiny Carswell after her statements to detectives on Monday didn’t match up. She apparently gave a couple of different stories to police, and in the absence of an eyewitness, they charged the mother. Also, she didn’t go to the hospital with the baby when he was taken in, which police may have seen as telling.
The Myspace pages belonging to Brian and DestinyThe Destiny reviews
aren’t perfect, but are surprisingly articulate given what we usually see in cases like this. Most of their friends seem to be family members. Brian is a newly vegan happy pothead, Destiny seems quite close to her own mom. My gut says something weird is going on somewhere, but it’s hard to put a finger on it based on the Myspace pages.
To me the most telling thing is that nobody seems to have this baby named in picture captions or congratulations. Maybe it was bad timing. Maybe Lanedon was an accident. Maybe people couldn’t figure out how to spell “Lanedon”. Maybe Destiny was exhausted and overwhelmed, or maybe Destiny’s covering for someone else. But most likely, she did it. And baby Lanedon, if he survives, will be taken into emergency DSS custody. No word on who has the other two boys.
Destiny Carswell is charged with abuse to inflict great bodily injury upon a child. She is being held without bond at Spartanburg County Detention Facility.
UPDATE 5/22/08 – Brian Hollingworth, Lanedon’s father, has also been charged in connection with Lanedon’s abuse. According to investigators, Brian Hollingworth admitted to “committing acts that contributed to the abuse.” Hollingworth was arrested within a few hours of my posting this article on Tuesday night – about 24 hours after Destiny Carswell was taken into custody.
Further, police now say that Destiny was intoxicated when she was abusing Lanedon, and that she initially claimed Lanedon had fallen off a bed. As one investigator said, “That bed would have had to be two stories high.”
Both Carswell and Hollingworth remain in jail without bond, charged with abuse to inflict great bodily injury upon a child.
6:09 pm on May 20th, 2008
Thats some fucked up shit! Pisses me off, you fuckin’ morons, idiots, losers…abusing babies is so pathetic! Hopefully somebody will abuse this skank bitch in jail.
6:25 pm on May 20th, 2008
If beauty is only skin deep she needs to flip her ugly ass inside out. Poor baby.
6:54 pm on May 20th, 2008
“Happy Mothers day beautiful, me and the boys appreciate your strength, and patience that u have with us. we love you, brian, jayden, kierdyn, and lanedon. love you wifey, love you mommy” – Taken directly from Destiny’s Myspace Comments.
Hope that helps with baby name to face.
I read this site all the time (first time posting tho), mostly from work and man, it makes me sick to my stomach to see/read about ppl hurting their young kids. I have a toddler and my gut wrenches everytime. I hope this baby recovers quickly and hopefully Grandma’s house will be much safer and loving than her twatwaffle (yup got that from you guys! ;D) mom!
7:03 pm on May 20th, 2008
i was reading the comments on her page.the mothers day comment from brian and it said”Happy Mothers day beautiful, me and the boys appreciate your strength, and patience that u have with us. we love you, brian, jayden, kierdyn, and lanedon.
love you wifey, love you mommy”
so there u go guys!
by the way that is one fugly bitch.she needs to deep clean her teeth.lol
7:05 pm on May 20th, 2008
she also smoked ciggarettes when she was preggo with little Lanedon
7:35 pm on May 20th, 2008
That is a minor offense (it happens with even the best parents every day) compared to what they did to this poor innocent soul. Apparently she wasn’t patient enough (contrary to that post/comment). Another bitch for the sterilization project. God I hope that baby has a better family.
7:47 pm on May 20th, 2008
I fucking swear it looks like someone took that chick’s face and fucking squeezed it as hard as possible. Does anyone see that the squeezed face look?
What an ugly bitch who apparently cannot fucking handle her child.
Poor baby.
7:49 pm on May 20th, 2008
Did anybody else notice the weird dead kid photo in her myspace photo album??? WTF is that shit???
7:56 pm on May 20th, 2008
OK… so I have been a lurker here for about 4 months now… but I do have to say that the pic of the dead kid….I noticed that as well… it is on both of their myspace’s…so it has to have some sort of sick, twisted significance for both of them… Weird Fuckers!!!!
7:59 pm on May 20th, 2008
Okay, so the Dad also has the weird dead kid pic in his myspace photos too and a gazillion family photos of the kids, the circus and even photos of newborn baby peanut cutie.
Oh he had this weird quote in his “about me” section: “cause what if a cow killed someone you loved for dinner.”
He should have said, “What if YOUR wife beat the shit out of your newborn kid.”
8:02 pm on May 20th, 2008
Did anyone notice the baby’s black eye in the birthday shots?
http://a278.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/93/l_3471fc9df2f2e02d30d3cc045c09e5ed.jpg
8:03 pm on May 20th, 2008
How about the black eye on the birthday baby?
8:08 pm on May 20th, 2008
Dad has those “flesh tunnels” – he looks like all the dudes that work at our local Pizza Hut…every damn one of them has the flesh tunnels and stretched piercings…
From Wikipedia: Trivia
A person who is either obsessed with stretching their piercings, or with showing off their many stretched piercings, is known as a “Gauge Queen”. Some wear this term with pride, others use it derisively.
8:46 pm on May 20th, 2008
I don’t understand how somebody fucked her enough to get her pregnant three times? Shit, the visuals would be better with a greased knothole.
8:53 pm on May 20th, 2008
9:02 pm on May 20th, 2008
Or a butthole. Yep.
12:39 am on May 21st, 2008
Good God this story just made me nauseous. It sounds to me like she is suffering from postpartum . She left this on her husbands page:
Apr 24 2008 11:50 AM
“just wanted to tell you love you even if i am psycho at the moment…having a baby will do that to ya:)”
So that being said, see a effing Doctor to get help. Put yourself on anti-depressants to get through it. This story breaks my heart. People like this shouldn’t be able to breed when there are so many people in the world who are deserving of having children that cannot. Grrrr!!!
2:10 am on May 21st, 2008
Why not lock yourself in the bathroom if you can’t handle it. Honestly, I read it in a parents magazine. And did it several times. But then, my babies are fine. Just saying.shrug.
8:52 am on May 21st, 2008
Wow is it only me or does Dad look twisted in that one picture where he is holding and feeding the new baby.
I have to say with the pictures of just her and the new baby she smiles and it is a real smile. Those pics where the other kids are in the bed she is not even touching the baby and the smile looks really forced.
I have to wonder too just from those pictures if this is not postpartum depression real life crap kicked in.
NOT mind you that does that in Any way at All excuse it. She has a lot of family support according to pictures and comments why not call Mom or someone to come give her a break.
Poor little dumpling baby I hope he makes out ok and is placed with a relative or something. I have to say dad seems like a loving Dad from pictures but he also seems to act like a big kid himself makes me wonder if she was not raising 4 kids counting him.
11:28 am on May 21st, 2008
OMG! That’s it! A butthole!
God, that baby is so adorable.
If they don’t want to love him, I’ll be happy to take him and show him what a Mommy’s love is. 
12:06 pm on May 21st, 2008
Just disgusting her actions and her picture above, how, why?, could you hurt a defenseless innocent beautiful baby!
I had postpartum and my son was colic, never not once did I harm my child! I did get frustrated and had to take a break, I am human, but hurting your child is unacceptable there are no excuses ever!
12:33 pm on May 21st, 2008
:hugs: My oldest was colicky and I had ppd as well. Sometimes I would just let her scream in her crib. Hurting a sweet, innocent, baby is NEVER an option! What a piece of work she is!
9:47 pm on May 21st, 2008
I would just like to say may all of those who sit on your butts and judge may you never, ever have tragedy like this in your family and have a bunch of righteous people like your selves, trying and convicting without actually knowing facts, none of us were there when this happened, this is my brother and my sister in law and this is one of the most painful times for our family….. and all you righteous can do is throw stones out of your fragile glass houses. these are not the violent parents you are making them to be. as I said before I pray for your families that tragedy like this never happens to you and you will not be judged. get a life!
9:51 pm on May 21st, 2008
i love you brian, I hope god gives you the strength to get through this. I love you too destiny. and jaydon, kierdyn, my sweet baby lanedon your getting stronger everyday we will survive this.
10:03 pm on May 21st, 2008
So causing multiple skull fractures, broken ribs, and a broken leg to a newborn baby is non-violent behaviour? You’re obviously as fucked up as they are.
10:11 pm on May 21st, 2008
FYI this is not a court room and we are entitled to our opinions based on the information in the article, no one is convicting anyone of anything.
Basically it amounts to someone got frustrated and took out their frustrations on an innocent baby. A baby who has had to endure pain at the hands of someone who is suppose to protect him. How can you condone this, what possible scenario is there that can make this acceptable, please fill me in!
10:12 pm on May 21st, 2008
GETALIFE… I know that it is hard to hear things about your family and I am sorry to hear what happened to your nephew… I myself have 5 nephews (and 2 nieces) and if anything ever happened to any of them I would be upset to read this too…. but… if my sister-in-law EVER hurt them…in any way…. I would not be able to defend her… I had a brother in law leave my sister for a younger woman… he never physically hurt the family… but I made sure his life was a living HELL for leaving my two young nephews fatherless…I will never understand defending those that hurt children… rather than defending the sick bastards, I would be seeing what I could do to get custody!!!
10:36 pm on May 21st, 2008
Hmmm, well IF this happened to a family member of mine. I would NOT defend them. I would be filing motions to take custody of all their children. At least in my home, I know that a 24 DAY OLD baby would be cared for properly. “Non-violent people”… right, the baby magically got broken bones. The baby is a figment of all our imaginations I guess. It didn’t really happen. Must not have, because these parents would “never” harm their precious newborn.
You should get a reality check, go see that poor baby and the pain he’s in and then you tell me your family is so wonderful.
11:09 pm on May 21st, 2008
Grab a fucking clue Getalife! Not violent? You think it was cuddle time that caused the broken ribs, multiple skull fractures and broken leg?!?!?!
11:37 pm on May 21st, 2008
getalife needs to get a life. I mean what side of stupid did you get out of bed this morning? You appeasing POS!
11:58 pm on May 21st, 2008
We all through stones because we all have had a moment on the edge and it is not a good place to be and it scares everyone of us…admit it or not. However, what makes us different from the piece of shit mother in this case she came to the edge and went over. Not once but several times. You get help anyway you can because your children are precious and a true gift. And if you can’t get that you need to just GET A LIFE!
12:05 am on May 22nd, 2008
**CORRECTED
12:35 am on May 22nd, 2008
I don’t think the entire family can be blamed. I’m sure things go on in all of your households that your parents or siblings don’t know about, maybe not to this extent, but we all lead private lives. Before this incident there were no signs of abuse on the older children and neighbors who were interviewed on TV described this couple as good parents. The grandparents are vying for custody. Yes, what Destiney did to Lanedon is unforgivable but lets wait to lay blame on everyone else until we know what happened.
9:03 am on May 22nd, 2008
first of all I would just like to say There is no way I would ever defend or condone abusing any child especially MY nephew who I have been with in the hospitol. So to all you women who have nothing else to do with your pitiful sorry pathetic lonely lives, obviously some of you should be looked at from just the comments you have made. and your right you have the right to your opinion because this sorry blog is the only place you poor b@tches will ever be heard. all you fat cows do is sit online all day with no life and talk about people. All I was doing by posting a comment here was give my opinion on all this hate going on. whoever hurt my nephew will pay, I will help make sure of that. I cannot grasp the concept of how someone could take that precious baby and hurt him on purpose, it disgusts me to think that, but I also think someone who could do that has beyond serious issues that were hidden from everyone. and again I hope you all never have to deal with your families going through this and your mothers will not have to be fighting to get custody of their grandchildren and have to go and see your nephew FIGHTING for his life every day. until then your opinion will matter otherwise i hope all you wonderful people have great lives of love and bliss and hopefully karma wont bite you in your butt for your hate.
10:18 am on May 22nd, 2008
Our glass houses look pretty good, since we don’t have critically injured babies in them. If this mom was having a rough time, where were you? Did you go in and help? Did you clean her house, take her older two kids out for the day? Did you do anything at all before she nearly killed her child?
Of course it’s horrible and terrible: for the baby. Lanedon is the victim here. Not your brother, not your sister in law. Lanedon – the baby nobody could even bother to caption with a name on their Myspaces. Lanedon will never be the same, if he lives. He has broken bones all over his body, as you well know. So hell yes, I will sit here and judge, because I don’t beat my children, and there’s nothing defensible about child abuse.
10:19 am on May 22nd, 2008
Is Destiny reading us from jail? Awesome. Tell her we said hey, and to not breed anymore.
10:23 am on May 22nd, 2008
NICE coming from someone telling US not to judge. What a fucking hypocrite.
Listen, law enforcement has enough reason to believe that your lovely sister in law HURT that baby. If anyone deserves pity it is you for being so blind and stupid that you can not understand the absolute disgust we have for people that hurt the helpless.
And guess what you dumb twat. The women on this board are heard more than just here. Many of them are very active in their communities, some are psychologists and social workers. As a matter of fact, I live in the same county as this piece of shit baby abusing bitch. I will do whatever I can to make sure that she gets exactly what she deserves.
Oh and if you talk to her, tell her to get her tubes tied. If she can’t handle the responsibility that comes with a newborn baby, then she needs to keep her legs closed.
10:23 am on May 22nd, 2008
I dunno… maybe we just have different morals here in NY…If you mess with an innocent child… thats it… and GETALIFE… I do feel for you… I said that in my first post to you…it is hard to believe that someone in your family could do this…and I am glad that you are in the hospital with baby Lanedon…cause that is exactly where I would be…all I said was if I had any inkling that my sis-in-law did this, I could not defend them… even if she was sick…you dont hurt children…. and people cannot fully hide their psychosis…there must have been signs…whether we choose to see them or not. I am sorry for what your family is going through…it must be terrible for all of you. I am praying for the baby and also yours and Destiny’s families everyday. BTW, I have never blamed you brother either… I am just saying that even if Destiny is sick…there is no excuse for what she did to your flesh and blood…and one piece of advice, do not attack those of us on here…just like you say we do not know you and your families; so how can we judge you?…it goes both ways…do not judge us, b/c you do not know us or our lives… the bickering is not worth the fight…your time is better spent with Lanedon and if you want to be on here… keep us UPD on how he is doing… thats why we are all here anyways, to see how he is doing…and b/c it disgusts us as just much as it does you, that there are so many out there that would harm a child…
10:26 am on May 22nd, 2008
Are you for real or are you a troll? If you “would never defend or condone child abuse”, then what in the hell are you bitching about? We are not bashing your nephew – we want justice for him! Do you get the fact – SHE DIDN’T EVEN GO TO THE HOSPITAL WITH HER BABY? What does that suggest to you? – that she’s mother of the year.
I don’t get your defense. Are you suggesting that someone else other than your sister in law did this? Was it your brother? Who are you pointing the finger at, since these two “COULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING”? The short version is: Do you know how and who did this to your nephew and have you reported it to the police? Did you see your nephew on a regular basis or are you a long distance relative?
Now to the rant: If you saw the child often, how could you not have noticed at least one of the broken bones, as there were many and done on different occasions, since you are such a loving aunt? After all, they were in various stages of healing. So why didn’t you get the baby out? And, if the parents didn’t do this, who are you suggesting had those “serious issues, hidden from everyone else” that was also responsible for caring for your nephew? Again, have you reported your suspicions? If you’re a long distance relative, then I can see how you didn’t have a clue, otherwise you should have gotten off of YOUR FAT ASS and addressed the situation PERIOD.
Instead of being mad at us for bashing a child abuser, why don’t you put your efforts into locating the real abuser (since these two could not have done it) and taking your anger out on them? Next, you could name said POS and we’ll be happy to apologize to your family and proceed with the stone throwing on the correct individual. That requires evidence – not I know they didn’t. Sorry but your word doesn’t override the evidence?
Now to address the personal attacks on our regulars – I’d rather be a fat cow sitting on my ass than to be known for defending child abusers. And, if you think this is the only place we’ll ever be heard, you are so wrong. Lots of us on here write letters on behalf of victims, that 99% of us have never met, to all kinds of officials – just to try and make a difference in their already scarred lives.
We even had an underage child admit to having sex with an older man here on-line – what did the DD do about that, you ask? The DD contacted proper authorities to get that travesty stopped. What the hell do you ever do to try to stop child abuse? – Other than saying my family is innocent because I said so and they could never do that? – That shit doesn’t count as contributing to helping the cause, in fact I think it falls in the catagory of enabling. Sitting on our fat asses, writing letters does count as contributing. Again, what do you do other than defend the abusers?
You should be grateful that so many of us are genuinely concerned about the welfare of your nephew and that we are outraged by his treatment. We love this precious boy, too. Maybe not like a family member, but we do love the children here at DD and only want for them to be kept safe from whomever, your family or not, that is causing the harm. Try being more concerned about what happened to your defenseless nephew than what people are saying about the abusing POS. You know, that would be showing him love and respect – instead of putting him on the back burner so you can defend adult(s) that harmed him.
Well, I gotta go “graze” after all that. I think it took a couple of pounds off explaining all of that to the wonderful aunt.
10:34 am on May 22nd, 2008
THEPOOH5… you are my HERO!!! <3
10:41 am on May 22nd, 2008
Even with me being a fat cow sitting on my fat ass doing nothing? – Well, thanks – thanks alot. *blushes*
I really didn’t mean to write a book – but damn, I’m sick to death of people worring about “what’s said” about abusing bitches and bastards than what happened to the child. You know “sticks and stones” so to speak did harm this child – will our “names” ever hurt the abuser(s)? I would just love to give them the “V8″ pop on the forehead and say “wake up stupid”. DAMN DAMN AND DOUBLE DAMN all this crying for the abusers instead of the innocent child.
10:52 am on May 22nd, 2008
I beg to differ. I am assuming you found our site after Googling Destiny’s name. If not, try it. I think you will see this sorry blog and the comments of it’s “sorry bitches” are being heard everywhere. With over 1000 views in just the 2 days the story got posted, Destiny seems to be a favorite at the moment.
11:08 am on May 22nd, 2008
I love The Pooh, always have! She articulates things so well, and she is telling the absolute truth about her getting involved. She has personally given us links to write Congressmen and others to try to help these children in some small way. I would bet my last paycheck this sorry exscuse making bitch has never performed a good deed like that in her life. You are an idiot. And I am a fat bitch, ooh I love it! Used to be all twiggly, my man hated it! You go Pooh!
11:59 am on May 22nd, 2008
Thank you so very much, Nell. I really don’t know how well I articulate the things I mean to say – but I do feel better knowing that others are getting the jist of what I’m trying to say.
And, although, I love getting pats on the back – I’m pretty sure that it was Imp that provided the links in the other story to write congressmen and the like. I only use them and I DO use the links and WRITE to give the victims, at least one more voice in their plight. I also hope that it lets the victim know that one person cares (I care, specifically) and is in their corner.
12:01 pm on May 22nd, 2008
I know Brian. I dated him. I have a lot of trouble believing that he would ever do anything to hurt his children. Jayden was 2 when we dated briefly. Jayden was everything to him. He loved that child like I love mine. Destiny is notoriously a crazy bitch. She found out she was preg with #2 about 2 weeks into my dating Brian. The broke up a month or two before. He left me to support her, because he is a man of charector. He is a “happy pothead” that is true. When the artical says that he “admitted to contributing to these acts of abuse” my thought is that he verbally abused her which drove her over the edge. like i said, crazy psycho bitch. Brian, I feel, is a victim here. He is being charged with abuse because they have not determined exactly what happened. I am going to be following this story very closely because unfortunately it hit me too close to home. There is no excuse for this type of behavior. I would gladly take in this child and raise it. Seriously. Poor Jayden he loves his daddy so much. I am not making excuses for Brian but as someone who knows him, I honestly dont think he had anything to do with this. He did the right thing. he took the baby to the hospital. The only thing I think he did wrong was stay too high and drunk to notice what was happening earlier. as far as the myspace dead baby thing… Dead baby jokes are popular in this area, for shock value though, not serious. Its sick and wrong and they should both go to jail. (Destiny obviously longer than him) But Brian did not do this. Don’t judge him. Pray for him. Please. I can’t imagine what he is going through right now.
12:07 pm on May 22nd, 2008
and getalife, Brian will be exonerated. sp? I know he didnt do this. She is guilty. Period. I am so sorry for your family. My prayers are with you all.
12:18 pm on May 22nd, 2008
Yes, GetALine, er, Pipe, er, Life…. I’d like to know that too. What have YOU done lately to speak up for the defenseless? So far all I see is you standing up for those who abuse them.
PS – to Pooh, Kathy, and Imp – shaZAM!
12:46 pm on May 22nd, 2008
getalife- I’m sorry for Lanedon, for you, for your parents and you’re in my prayers. The thing about blogs like this is that the same people come to them day after day and everyone who regularly posts on them becomes a clique like in high school. This is where they hang out and it’s a closed society. You’re not going to get through to them. Keep your head up.
12:53 pm on May 22nd, 2008
Are YOU fucking serious?
WE are a closed society? People who refuse to coddle or accept excuses from baby abusers?
No you aren’t going to get to us. There isn’t one sob story we haven’t already heard that will make us forgive someone who tortured a child that was less than a month old. Why don’t you two form your own clique and knit a sweater or something to keep this baby beater warm in that cold cell of hers. She’ll be in there for a while if we are lucky.
12:58 pm on May 22nd, 2008
OOOh girls, we is a clique! I say we are the cool ones. Imp for prom queen, Morbid you will have to pull out that white tux, cause you prom king. Swivel, Killbill, few others on your court. Kathy, Hippiepoet, you guys on the Imps court. Wear your prettiest and smile big! We all have nothing to do anyway, right? Right.
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