David DeShields Broke MaKaylah
September 30, 2008 by impqueen
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Morristown, TN – David DeShields seemed like a proud father, if his MyspaceMySpace
(now private) was any indication. DeShields, 27, and his wife Casey have two little girls – a daughter about 4 or 5 years old, and baby MaKaylah, now aged nine months.  But now MaKaylah has a broken nose and multiple fractures to both her legs – and David DeShields is in jail for the abuse of his infant daughter.Â
I don’t know how you get from the picture above, in which DeShields is proudly holding his new baby girl, to an infant with broken legs and a broken nose. Friends who have known DeShields for years say that he didn’t seem the rageful type, that he clearly adored his wife and children. They say they don’t know what happened.
I bet Casey DeShields does.
On Thursday, Casey DeShields took MaKaylah to a hospital in Morristown for treatment of a possible broken nose. What she said on Thursday I don’t know, but MaKaylah was sent back home with her mother.
On Friday, Casey left the home, presumably to go to work. She left the girls with their father, like you do when you’ve been married to your kids’ dad for years. She got home that evening around 11:00 and found that MaKaylah was crying inconsolably. Tylenol didn’t work. Cuddling didn’t work. Nothing worked, and MaKaylah was miserable. By Saturday morning, the baby’s legs were swollen.
On Saturday, Casey DeShields told her husband that she was taking MaKaylah back to the hospital. David DeShields responded by saying he’d just go on to work, thanks. David is employed as a security officer at Mountain View Youth Development Center in Dandridge, Tennessee, a center for juvenile offenders. As an officer there, David DeShields is an employee of the Tennessee State Department of Children’s Services. Niiice.
When Casey DeShields got MaKaylah to the hospital, it quickly became evident that she wasn’t just fussy. The baby had multiple breaks to the bones in her legs. I sort of wondered if Daddy lost his temper during a diaper change and perhaps slammed MaKaylah’s legs open on the changing table, something like that, just based on the trauma to the baby’s femurs. Beyond that, I have no idea how you break a baby’s legs in multiple places.
And David DeShields is not a tiny guy. He’s just under six feet tall, and weighs nearly three hundred pounds. That kind of force on the legs of a nine-month-old child, combined with anger and any number of factors from financial stress to job rage? He could have ripped that baby in half. And from the sound of things, he nearly did.
Casey DeShields told police investigators that she believed her husband had caused the injuries to MaKaylah, since he was the only adult at home with the baby at the time. Then she said he had also caused MaKaylah’s broken nose a few days before.  I’m curious, Casey: why would you leave your children with their father if you even suspected he might have hurt one of them? This can’t be the first time he’s lost his temper.
MaKaylah DeShields was transferred to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville, where she is being treated for her injuries. Â David DeShields was arrested early SaturdaySaturday reviews
afternoon at the youth detention center. He was charged with garrvated child abuse, and is now being held at the Hamblen Couty Jail on a $100,000 bond.
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