Robby Guppy Beats Up His Baby
Filed under: Assault, Beating, Burning, Child Abuse, Child Endangerment
Fulton, NY - Robby Guppy,17, was a lineman on the Pulaski High School football team. He was a fairly popular student who, despite a sometimes-rocky home life, was well-liked, even respected, at school. But what some of his classmates didn’t know until recently is that Guppy is also the father of an 18-month-old little girl. Well, now they know. Because Guppy isn’t only a teenage babydaddy, he’s a child abuser who has confessed to beating and burning his toddler daughter over a two-day period last weekend.Â
The abuse began last Friday night, July 25. The baby’s mother dropped the little girl off for a weekend visit with Guppy.  The baby wasn’t there very long before Guppy, who has self-described “anger issues”, got mad.
According to Guppy’s confession, he got upset because the child started crying for her mother and wouldn’t go to sleep. So, rather than reading the little girl a story, or rocking her, he chose the Beat The Baby method of sleep inducement, punching her in the head with a closed fist at least five times.
“I hit her as hard as I could,” Guppy said in his statement to police. “I also shook her hard every time I got mad at her. I’m sorry. I can’t help myself. I mean, I don’t want to punch myself. That would make me madder.” Really, Robby Guppy? Because I wouldn’t have a problem with you punching yourself.
Continued Guppy, “She would not stop. She gave that cry that drives me up a wall. It is like the thing that pushes my anger button. I got mad and I spanked her on the butt but that did not work. She kept crying. I made a fist and I punch her in the head a few times. She did not stop, but, when this happened, when I hit her, I could not hear her cry. I could only hear my heart beat. I just left her in the room.”
About ten or fifteen minutes later, Guppy said, his daughter came out of the room where he’d left her. Then some of his buddies came over, and they all played video games until about 4:30 Saturday morning, at which time the little girl woke up when Guppy tried to move the sleeping toddler to a couch in the living room. At that point, Guppy says he made the child a bottle, which she wouldn’t take, and she “cried like forever.”
“I slapped her in the face with an open hand four, five or six times. I totally lost control. I hit her all over. I don’t know why,” Guppy said, admitting that he continued to hit the child with an open hand throughout the day on Saturday.  But then, get this, he got all defensive with police, saying “I only punched her on Friday with a closed fist and I only hit her five times in the face.” Oh, well. If you “only” punched her a few times… idiot.
Later on Saturday, Guppy took the child with him to go play video games at a friend’s house. At around10:00 that evening, Guppy had yet another turn at Abusive Parent Roulette when the little girl was crying. Let’s see. We have a toddler girl, afraid of her father who beats her, in an unfamiliar house, and it’s bedtime. Anyone else think crying would be the appropriate response? Me too. But not our bully Guppy.
From his statement: “I was smoking a USA Gold cigarette…. I again lost control, I was yelling at her to shut up and stop crying….I shook her, hard, I was mad. She still would not stop crying. I did not know what to do. I got madder. I took my cigarette and pushed the lit end against her hand. I told her to stop yelling. (She) screamed, she would not stop. I then put her on her side, I put the lit cigarette behind her ear lobe. I only held it against her face for a little bit. I kept yelling at her and slapping her. I was upset she would not stop. My anger went away. I stopped hitting her and I just let her cry….On Sunday, I was kinda nice to (her), believe it or not.”
Well sure he was kinda nice to the baby on Sunday. Because that’s when his grandmother saw the baby and told him that she did not like those bruises.  Guppy told Grandma that, well, the baby fell down the stairs. Grandma lectured him sternly and said that no, actually, no child got bruises like that from a fall down the stairs. But apparently Grandma didn’t call the police then.
And when the baby’s mother came by Sunday afternoon, Guppy gave her the “fall down the stairs” story and I guess she bought it, because she left her baby with Robby Guppy until Monday. Wh-wh-what? Is that court-ordered visitation? Because she knew that baby wasn’t all bruised up on Friday afternoon. But still, she left her there for another day.
It’s not clear who called the police, but I’m hopeful that it was the grandmother and/or the mother. Robby Guppy was arrested on Wednesday and charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, one count of second-degree assault and one count of third-degree assault. He is being held at the Oswego County Jail on $5,000 cash or $10,000 security bond.
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I wonder if teen girls still think that using contraceptive (i.e., planning to have sex by being prepared beforehand) is sort of dirty, while having it “just happen†is romantic. I’m a bit out of touch with the inside story of how girls think about sex nowadays.
I wouldn’t consider that to be standard ideology, myself. While I only have one good friend who got pregnant as a teen (19, legitimate birth control malfunction), I knew plenty in high school who got pregnant out of sheer ignorance/hubris. In other words, they were too fuckin’ lazy and stupid to go to the FREE CLINIC TWO BLOCKS FROM SCHOOL to get birth control.
It’s not hard at all to avoid getting pregnant. I’m 25 and I’ve never even had a “scare”. Honestly, it’s hard for me to respect the vast majority of teenage mothers these days, especially those who have multiple pregnancies/kids.
Yeah Wry. I was just opening the door for more discussion. IF they were GOOD parents, it would make sense to be able to have a break…but they aren’t. That’s why I posted this - it doesn’t make sense unless you quote all of it:
Though, I am condemning her for buying the “fell down the stairs†story. I’m sorry, but if my daughter even gets a small red mark on her - I ask immediately where it came from and how it got there. (Assuming of course I don’t already know) Hell her kid had BURN marks on her EAR, and she just ignored it?! That is something I’d notice within 5 seconds, AND I’d be all over the person that had caused it (intentionally or not).
I personally feel, that she is even more grotesque as a mother just because she KNEW (and stated on the record) that he had been violent in the past. Yet, she continued a relationship with him AND left her child with him. Where is this girl’s brain at?!
What’s even worse is that even Angrymom stated herself and others were more than happy to babysit for the mother. So not only does she not have an excuse for all of the above things I listed - she also doesn’t have the excuse of “I had no one else to call”. Hell, it wasn’t even an “emergency” situation…it was for farkin’ Harborfest.
I also agree with Angrymom on this:
That’s why I suggested in my earlier post to charge the grandmother as well. She KNEW, said she KNEW in a statement, that abuse was happening…yet did nothing? Why not charge her with the same as the mother?
Wow…I screwed up my own quote…meant to quote as this…
I think some one should beat his ass in the holding cell and burn him in the face with a cigarette and beat him even more for him crying like a lil bitch. I hate that babies cry get the fuck over it already…
What a fucking idiot. No, hitting children does not make them stop crying unless you knock them unconscious doing it.
I wish people who don’t have the wherewithal (in this case, the mental wherewithal) to have a child would start using some birth control.
This pisses me off. What kind of sick freak can not only -do- this to a precious baby, but then admit it as if you’ve only spanked the puppy for crapping all over the place? Yes, he’s young. But I was only 3 years older when I had my daughter, who is now 19 months. That poor, poor little girl. It breaks my heart when my baby hurts herself in an accident. That sick bastard sat there and tortured his baby, got pissed off when she cried out in pain, and tortured her some more. Poor little baby girl probably couldn’t figure out what she’d done. Little punk should be put in jail and submitted to the same torture he inflicted on his precious baby by other jailmates.
You can almost see where the “she fell down the stairs” story would have been bought… bruises could have not shown up fully or could have been hidden under clothing…. burn behind her ear covered not only by hair, but by, well.. ear! But he BURNED HER ON HER HAND FIRST!!! Not a falling type accident and not easily explained away! Not to mention the sheer pain that baby would feel!
This bitch mother CHOSE to look the other way. Same with Grandma. Same with all his friends there on both occasions.
NO ONE should walk on this one! That poor baby deserves justice and love.
I find this statement funny, when I had my first kid at 17 I was alone, unsupported and very pissed off at the world….and when I was frutrated with the baby, rather than hit him I would litterally beat the fuck out of myself…..mainly on my legs, and oddly, feeling the pain and seeing my bruises(I was anemic so I bruised easliy) calmed me down alot, and kept me from taking my anger out on my defenseless baby, I have of course loooong since found better ways to control my anger, but those first 6 months of motherhood were tough on my body, I’ve never been ashamed to say that yeah I beat the hell out of myself in anger, as it kept me stable enough to not hit my beautiful baby boy who is now 10 and as happy and healthy and alive as so many children are not. all because parents are too much of a pussy to turn thier fists on to themselves.