Michael Cook hit GF Elizabeth Linton 4 yr. son in the head & twisted his arm

[Sister Iroz]

EDWARDSVILLE - An Edwardsville couple is facing charges after personnel at a St. Louis hospital called police and reported suspicious injuries to a 4-year-old boy.

Police said the boy suffered a broken arm, facial and head injuries on March 11 while at home in the 200 block of Fourth Avenue, Edwardsville.

Police said the mother's boyfriend is suspected of inflicting the injuries, and the mother is suspected of trying to cover up the alleged crime by lying to medical personnel and telling the boy to lie, also.

Michael K. Cook, 18, of the 200 block of Fourth Avenue, Edwardsville, was charged Tuesday in Madison County Circuit Court with aggravated battery of a child.

He allegedly hit his girlfriend's son in the head and twisted the boy's right arm, breaking it, on March 11.

The child's mother was charged Tuesday in Madison County Circuit Court with obstructing justice for allegedly telling medical authorities on March 12 that the child had fallen down stairs.

She was identified as Elizabeth Linton, 23, of the same address in the 200 block of Fourth Avenue.

Bail on Cook was set at $150,000. Bail on Linton was set at $15,000.

http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/boy...le_police.html

He is a fucking bastard for abusing this child and she is a fucking bitch and just as responsible for trying to cover it up. I hope they both rot in jail and hell.

An Edwardsville man accused of breaking the arm of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son was taken into police custody Wednesday morning, as was the girlfriend, who is accused of telling her child to lie about it.

Edwardsville Police Chief James Bedell said Michael K. Cook, 28, and Elizabeth L. Linton, 23, were taken into custody Wednesday morning at their residence at 218 Fourth Ave.

Cook was charged Tuesday with aggravated battery of a child for allegedly twisting the arm of Linton's son until it broke.

Linton was charged Tuesday with obstructing justice for allegedly inducing the child to tell medical personnel and other authorities that his injuries were caused by a fall down a stairway.

"These injuries were inflicted by the male adult, Cook, who resides in the home, but is not the youth's father, while purportedly disciplining the child," Bedell said. "The youth's mother, Linton, who accompanied the youth to be treated, informed health care workers that her son fell down the stairs and had sustained the injuries. She also told her son to tell the health care workers the same story."

Sgt. Dennis Gunderson confirmed that the boy's injuries "are not life-threatening" and that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is involved. There were other children in the home, he said, but they have been removed pending the investigation.

Police asked that anyone with information on the case call Gunderson or Detective Michael Lybarger at 656-2131.

Bail for Cook was set at $150,000, while bail for Linton was set at $15,000.

The charge against Cook carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. The charge against Linton carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/695508.html

[seductress]

Hopefully this child is never given back to dear ol' mommy.

I still after reading day in and day out cannot understand why these mothers or fathers put themselves before the kids. And basically she is not putting the penis before the child, she's putting herself before the child, by allowing and covering this up. Do these "parents" not bond with their children from birth? The love a child gives to a parent is a love like no other, it so pure and so innocent, full of hope and never do these children stop loving. Why can't these "parents" give the same love back?

[thebooblady]

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Comment:
Mar 15 2009 6:43 PM

well it looks like your ol man needs the fuck beat out of him...and i'm sure soner or later he will get it!hopefully you have enough brains to put his as behind bars and no where around any of your kids again

[Sister Iroz]

Elizabeth Linton

Michael Cook

[tonilj80]

the mother is suspected of trying to cover up the alleged crime by lying to medical personnel and telling the boy to lie, also.

Way to go 'Mom'! That's a hell of a way to treat your child!

[Marv]

That child is 4. He is totally dependant on his mother to protect him from harm and to 'make it all better'.

How must he have felt when, instead of protecting him, instead of stopping his tormentor, instead of whisking him away to the hospital with a promise that 'everything will be ok, Im here for you'..... she lied to protect her penis, and told her child to lie to protect him too!!!!!

He must have felt so confused, worthless, abandoned and alone. His own mother is telling him to lie to protect the fuckwit who hurt him! That sends a very clear message to this boy as to where he lies in her affections.

And she faces a maximum sentence of 3 years for that betrayal. That is nowhere near enough. Not even close.

[Whisper]

Man gets six years for battering child
EDWARDSVILLE - An Edwardsville woman cried Monday as her boyfriend was being led out of a courtroom after pleading guilty to the aggravated battery of her child.

Madison County Circuit Judge Charles Romani Jr. accepted the guilty plea of Michael K. Cook, 30, of the 200 block of Fourth Avenue, Edwardsville, and sentenced him to six years in prison for the beating of the 4-year-old son of Elizabeth Linton, 24, of the same address.

Cook was charged in March 2009 with aggravated battery of a child for the beating of the 4-year-old boy. He pleaded guilty Monday in Madison County Circuit Court in exchange for a six-year prison term for the Class X felony.

Assistant Madison County State's Attorney Ali Summers told the judge at Monday's hearing that Edwardsville police were called to Children's Hospital in St. Louis, where the boy was taken.

A doctor who examined the child suspected child abuse, Summers said. The boy's arm was fractured in two places, and there were bruises on his ear, face and right arm, Summers told the court.

Summers said the mother told the child to lie and say he fell down the steps. However, the mother changed her mind and told the truth when confronted with inconsistencies in the story, authorities said.
[...]
Cook was released from the Madison County Jail in Edwardsville on March 9, 2009, after posting $15,000 cash bond. That same day, he was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance. That charge and two other felony drug charges were dropped in exchange for his plea

http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/chi...ille-cook.html

[TweakingMonk]

ok my ND attempt at posting a reply to you nice folks... i am making this pointless, well not so much pointless as embarrassing post to share the fact that i spent close to 5 months sitting on a IDOC property box with a headphone splitter watching TV no further than 2 feet from this piece of trash. you never really just openly spoke on the facts of the case that brought you to prison because well lets be up front about the fact that if you were there on a molestation case or something of the kind, your stay at that particular correctional facility would be hell... this guy always said his case that he was serving time for was a personal but large amount of heroin. he would cry when times would get around the holidays then speak of his kids. aggravated battery of a child... i was trying to find this guy on facebook cause we did get along sharing his TV, he always did seem a little too nice though with his stuff, food, property. i guess the nice guys are the ones you should be afraid of in a situation like a prison stay. -TM