http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/08/babysitter_accused_of_throwing.html
IONIA, MI – A babysitter accused of throwing an 8-month-old boy in her care, causing a skull fracture and other injuries, was arraigned Tuesday, Aug. 9, on a first-degree child-abuse charge.
Autumn Skuse is held in the Ionia County Jail on $50,000 bond.
She pleaded not guilty in Ionia County District Court before Magistrate David Wirth.
The charge is a potential life offense.
"And his babysitter is in jail!!!! God is good. Justice will be served!" she wrote on a gofundme fund-raising page.
Pierson wrote that a Children's Protective Services workers told her "that our babysitter had just admitted to THROWING my son......my precious 8 MONTH OLD BABY!!! She THREW him. I was outraged."
Doctors detected bleeding on Thomas' brain and abnormal eye movement. He has not had any seizures after starting on seizure medication on Saturday, the mother said.
Autumn Skuse is held in the Ionia County Jail on $50,000 bond.
She pleaded not guilty in Ionia County District Court before Magistrate David Wirth.
The charge is a potential life offense.
"And his babysitter is in jail!!!! God is good. Justice will be served!" she wrote on a gofundme fund-raising page.
Pierson wrote that a Children's Protective Services workers told her "that our babysitter had just admitted to THROWING my son......my precious 8 MONTH OLD BABY!!! She THREW him. I was outraged."
Doctors detected bleeding on Thomas' brain and abnormal eye movement. He has not had any seizures after starting on seizure medication on Saturday, the mother said.
http://www.inquisitr.com/3405053/autumn-skuse-babysitter-throws-8-month-old-baby-thomas/
Indeed, there was much more that Skuse was not telling the parents about her treatment of the little boy. According to the mom, Skuse confessed to her that she forcibly threw the baby to the floor.
“She said he was supposed to land on a pillow,” the mom recounted to WZZM. “Obviously he didn’t. She said she was abused herself as a child and and she’s going to the mental health hospital.”
Even more upsetting, doctors told Rachel Pierson that in addition to the head injuries, including three fractures to the baby’s skull that resulted in bleeding on his brain, little Thomas suffered from cracked ribs that were already in the process of healing — meaning that the injuries were at least three weeks old, possibly indicating that Autumn Skuse had been abusing the baby all along.
“I wanted to kill her,” the mom said. “I want her to be in jail forever.”
Eight-month-old Thomas also had a broken leg, from an earlier injury that, police say, likely resulted from something Skuse did to him.
“She said he was supposed to land on a pillow,” the mom recounted to WZZM. “Obviously he didn’t. She said she was abused herself as a child and and she’s going to the mental health hospital.”
Even more upsetting, doctors told Rachel Pierson that in addition to the head injuries, including three fractures to the baby’s skull that resulted in bleeding on his brain, little Thomas suffered from cracked ribs that were already in the process of healing — meaning that the injuries were at least three weeks old, possibly indicating that Autumn Skuse had been abusing the baby all along.
“I wanted to kill her,” the mom said. “I want her to be in jail forever.”
Eight-month-old Thomas also had a broken leg, from an earlier injury that, police say, likely resulted from something Skuse did to him.
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