Victoria Meeks Has Hardwood Floors
September 19, 2008 by impqueen

Belle Plaine, IA – Victoria Marie Meeks, 22, has hardwood floors and a three-year-old daughter named Ava.  And guess what? Slamming Ava’s head on said hardwoods? Not a good idea. Now Ava’s in the hospital after having surgery on her head, and Victoria Meeks has been arrested for fracturing her daughter’s skull.  If Ava could talk, I bet she’d say, “Thanks, Mom. I love a brain injury!” Or, y’know… not.
Here’s the thing, denizens. Most simple skull fractures do not require surgery to resolve. So this must have been one hell of a bump. I’m just guessing here because I don’t have the medical records, but since Ava had to have surgery, it’s reasonable to assume that she either had skull fragments that needed removal, or her brain was swelling and doctors needed to remove a piece of her skull temporarily to relieve the pressure.
Neither of those surgeries is a good thing, you understand. This toddler suffered way more than your garden variety “oops, I dropped her” concussion.
On Sunday, police investigators got a call that little Ava had a “suspicious skull fracture” and was being treated at University of Iowa Hospital.  When they went to talk to Victoria Meeks, she said that she accidentally “placed Ava on the floor too hard”.
Oh, okay. What did she do, body-slam the kid?
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for Imp Childhood Experience Storytime, so gather round, everyone! When I was six, I did not want to go to church because there was something on TV I wanted to see. (I was a recalcitrant imp even then.) As I was stomping through my room, I slipped on my pretty blue plush area rug. I literally flew up in the air and went down, straight backwards. There was no place for my hands to go, and the back of my head bounced off my hardwood floors. It hurt. I was dazed.
Well, I went to church anyway because my parents, bless them, knew their imp and figured I was faking the headache to watch a Bob Hope Special (they had not seen me fall). About a half hour into the service, I started doing the projectile puking thing, Exorcist-style. Which would have surprised no one, it being me, except that one of my pupils blew up and the other got tiny. So off we went to the ER, where it was determined that your imp had a hard head and a mild concussion.
So. My head BOUNCED off a hardwood floor over a concrete slab, and all I got was a day off school. Ava must have bounced really, really hard.  There is no way you just “place” a child on the floor and fracture her skull to the point of surgical necessity. No, Victoria Meeks must have thrown her kid down and slammed the heck out of her.
If Ava has a lasting brain injury, I hope her mother gets one of her own to match. Then she can stumble through life while Ava lives with someone else – someone who won’t slam her into the floor.
Victoria Meeks was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony child endangerment and assault causing serious injury. She is out of jail and under Department of Corrections supervision pending trial.
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