Jeffrey Putnam plants his foot on his son's forehead

**Dakota Valkyrie** · March 21st, 2010, 07:31 AM

A man who allegedly bruised his son and left his shoe print on the boy's forehead and the boy's mother, who allegedly threatened to kill the boy if he told, were indicted Thursday by a Dona Ana County grand jury on child abuse charges.

Jeffrey Charles Putnam Jr., 23 , and Melissa Lopez-Putnam, 28, of Las Cruces remain jailed at the Dona Ana County Detention Center.
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Las Cruces police detectives began their investigation after the 7-year-old arrived at school two weeks ago and apparently told school officials he was afraid to go home. Detectives learned that Jeffrey Putnam allegedly punched the boy the night before and placed his foot on the boy's head and neck. In photographs, bruising on the boy's head and neck matched the Lugz boots Jeffrey Putnam was wearing when he was interviewed by detectives.

The boy was also allegedly thrown to the ground, kicked, punched repeatedly, and then had his face slammed into a table, causing the child to bleed, as his father allegedly yelled profanities at him, according to Putnam's bond information form. The alleged beating took place in front of the boy's four younger siblings.

Putnam was arrested for criminal domestic violence in 2007 in South Carolina. On his MySpace profile, he lists, among his heroes, "My children, who see life through innocent eyes" and describes himself as a "Father, Husband, and ass****, in that order." On Lopez-Putnam's MySpace profile, she describes herself as a mother of seven children.

Investigators also believe Melissa Lopez-Putnam knew of her husband's actions but failed to report the incident and threatened the boy with violence if he told anyone.

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_14721877

His: http://www.myspace.com/dadofsix2008
Hers: http://www.myspace.com/sgtblackswife98

**Valasca** · March 21st, 2010, 01:18 PM

and the egg donor threatened to kill the child if he told.....
may both of them rot in hell...

**Pene784** · March 21st, 2010, 01:35 PM

This man is only 23 and the boy in question here is 7? I wonder if this man is actually the father. The woman is 28 and has 7 children! Just the people we want reproducing.

**proudmom** · March 21st, 2010, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by Pene784

This man is only 23 and the boy in question here is 7? I wonder if this man is actually the father. The woman is 28 and has 7 children! Just the people we want reproducing.

It would make him about 15 or 16 when baby was born and sadly this day and age that is not a far streatch he probably is the father. babies having babies.

**LadyCygnet** · March 21st, 2010, 08:55 PM

The man who fathered my niece (who will turn 14 at the end of the month) was in my grade and turned 16 just a couple of weeks before she was born (and my sister was 17), so it is possible.

And SEVEN children by age 28? Good grief!

ETA:

"Father, Husband, and ass****, in that order."

I think he's got his order reversed, based on what he did to his son.

As for the mom, she deserves just as much punishment for the dad for trying to threaten her son to keep him from telling on his daddie dearest.

**Silvahalo** · March 21st, 2010, 10:40 PM

Their son who was beaten....little Gideon, he reminds me much of my own son who is 6yo. I am very happy, very fortunate, as are my boys that they have a father that would never hurt them. I trust that more than I have ever trusted most anything. Still, if something like this happened, a permanent shoe mark to his face would just be the beginning of his misery.

This mother is not a mother. She is only thinking of her penis and what she gets from that, which IMO isn't much except the little treasures she bore. Sad, very sad. Get your shit together woman, he isn't worth the paper you wipe your ass with. This child beater, this asshole should get it snipped and, this woman corked already. You both FAIL, fail completely as parents.

Be happy and safe little Gideon. What a sweet child.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · March 21st, 2010, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by silvahalo68

till, if something like this happened, a permanent shoe mark to his face would just be the beginning of his misery.

I get the feeling your shoes would look something like this:

**Silvahalo** · March 21st, 2010, 11:25 PM

LOL, DV, nah, I'd want him to live and walk in public with that mark on his face disgracing him, damn, those things in that pic would kill for sure! See my boy reminds me so much of little Gideon....I think you understand mother to mother what must be done sometimes. :)

**nopatience** · March 22nd, 2010, 02:52 PM

I'd like to plant my foot so far up his ass that his teeth are polished by the shoe leather! That would only be the beginning for her - how could a mother not protect her child?!

**CasperGirl** · March 22nd, 2010, 03:12 PM

Hmmmm this loser is ex military and has an associate's degree in Criminal Justice, wtf?????? I wanna see what all the real men he served with would do to him. And mom should be shot on sight. But you know she is gonna come out and say she was afraid to say anything and claim the battered wives syndrome.

**yakeesrule2010** · October 25th, 2010, 10:33 PM

well nopatience i surely hope you eat your wheaties

**yakeesrule2010** · October 25th, 2010, 10:40 PM

as for all of you. I am 100 hundred percent sure that none of you know the whole story. so if any of you have even a percentage of a brain i would shut my mouth before it bit off more than it could chew. and guess what? i heard through a reliable source that they are getting there kids back and the whole story was blown out of proportion by the media because of susanna martinez is running for governor and is bucking for votes. lol how pathetic all of you are. you all sure do belong in the din of sin.

**knightsmom** · October 25th, 2010, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by yakeesrule2010

as for all of you. I am 100 hundred percent sure that none of you know the whole story. so if any of you have even a percentage of a brain i would shut my mouth before it bit off more than it could chew. and guess what? i heard through a reliable source that they are getting there kids back and the whole story was blown out of proportion by the media because of susanna martinez is running for governor and is bucking for votes. lol how pathetic all of you are. you all sure do belong in the din of sin.

Since we are so pathetic...explain please the justification for having the imprint of a shoe on the head and neck of a 7 yr old child? Even if by some strange chance the story was "blown out of proportion" as you claim, I have never had my children taken or charges filed for something as horrible as this. The police or political candidates do not just randomly go to someones home and create cases of abuse for publicity. Maybe you should use your brain and stand up for the safety of these children!

**Robynne** · October 25th, 2010, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by yakeesrule2010

as for all of you. I am 100 hundred percent sure that none of you know the whole story. so if any of you have even a percentage of a brain i would shut my mouth before it bit off more than it could chew. and guess what? i heard through a reliable source that they are getting there kids back and the whole story was blown out of proportion by the media because of susanna martinez is running for governor and is bucking for votes. lol how pathetic all of you are. you all sure do belong in the din of sin.

Well, if the school and law enforcement have pictures that confirm the abuse, I don't think we need the whole story. But, if you would like to grace us with your oh so great "whole story," then please, be our guest.

**tenntitanfan** · October 25th, 2010, 11:22 PM

I know I get my opinion from what I read and it is the quote of the news story. If someone wants me to change my opinion about what I read then the news story needs to change. Now it is in print or the lc-sunnews would be getting sued for libel. My opinion on this story is he is an asshole that shouldn't be around children and she is a cunt for not protecting her son from this sociopath. She should also be fixed because she is just a baby machine - 7 children and only 28 - I had my first child at 27. She obviously doesn't have her priorities right when it comes to choosing between her children and her testicle bag.

**CountryMomma** · October 26th, 2010, 01:45 AM

A few weekends ago, I was at my sisters house and her trashy neighbors kid was playing with Cason. This 4 year old proceeded to kick my 2 year old in the face and in the back of his head. My sister sent him home and yelled to the baby farm he calls a mother that she needed to give him a spankin. Said baby farm proceeded to yell profanities and start an all out white trash riot. She then proceeded to look me straight in the eye and tell me that she was going to kick my 2 year old in the face but only after she was done stomping on me. And I thought that was the only incident I would ever hear of where an ADULT wants to/ or does kick a child in the face.

I'd like to say I kicked her ass but alas that is not the case :/ I have a wee bit more class than that but thats only because 4 grown men had to hold me back and I had to remind myself that no one would be able to take care of my kids if I sat my ass in jail.

That being said - damn I would like to get ahold of these two and throw the baby farm in there with them. This is fucking pathetic....And for some idiot to come here in their defense and say we have shit wrong? How dare you motherfucker! How dare you stand up for someones pathetic existence who finds it completely okay to beat on a child. You yakeesrule2010 are a worthless excuse for a human being. Atleast those of us here have the common sense God gave us not to fucking stand up for complete asshats! We believe in standing up for those who have no one to stand up for them like Gideon. You need a fucking reality check and you need one real fucking quick - I am going to pray for you - Im going to pray someone stomps on your fucking head the way this white trash dildo stomped on that poor baby. AMEN

**carolinablue** · October 26th, 2010, 08:16 AM

no one would be able to take care of my kids if I sat my ass in jail.

Yup. That thought alone has saved several hominids I know from permanent disability and disfigurement...In fact, one person is still alive because of it. Every day he lives is a gift from me.

**KyFyre** · October 26th, 2010, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by yakeesrule2010

as for all of you. I am 100 hundred percent sure that none of you know the whole story. so if any of you have even a percentage of a brain i would shut my mouth before it bit off more than it could chew. and guess what? i heard through a reliable source that they are getting there kids back and the whole story was blown out of proportion by the media because of susanna martinez is running for governor and is bucking for votes. lol how pathetic all of you are. you all sure do belong in the din of sin.

Cause, yeah a child likes to go to school and admit they are afraid to go home, home to worthless assholes like this child's parents that beat them. And cause yeah, all kids like to say their moms threatened to kill them if they told anyone that her dick of the day (7 kids at 28? I'm sure they ain't all got the same daddy) had hurt them. Which one are you? The hoebag mom that can't keep her knees together or the spineless dickhead that has to beat up on a baby to feel like a man? All I see you doing is coming here to run your mouth, but you give NO information to prove or show to us that what the news reports isn't facts. All talk is what you are. Got no facts to backup what you say. You call us pathetic, but we aren't here defending child abusers like you are. We CARE about children and their well being. We see what you care about. The sins you read of here aren't our own. But people like you or your useless waste of space buddies there you've came to defend. Do the world a favor, teach your little friends there about condoms and sterilization. They got enough kids to terrorize already and I'm betting that we, the ones you came to lamely try to insult, are paying for those kids. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to help those who need it, but I don't enjoy knowing my tax dollars are going to people who don't love, cherish and PROTECT their children.

Mark my words, IF that useless twat does get those kids back, she'll be back up on here again. Only next time one of those babies will be in the grave.

**Pennie** · October 26th, 2010, 09:05 AM

whole story was blown out of proportion by the media because of susanna martinez is running for governor

Sounds familar..taking lessons from Cindy Anthony camp are we!? Won't work and how happy we all are that the abuse was found out before his mother actually did get to kill him for talking about the abuse.

**TheMeaningOfItAll** · October 26th, 2010, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by yakeesrule2010

as for all of you. I am 100 hundred percent sure that none of you know the whole story. so if any of you have even a percentage of a brain i would shut my mouth before it bit off more than it could chew. and guess what? i heard through a reliable source that they are getting there kids back and the whole story was blown out of proportion by the media because of susanna martinez is running for governor and is bucking for votes. lol how pathetic all of you are. you all sure do belong in the din of sin.

Yakeesrule2010,

I would politely suggest you learn proper grammar before you come into a site and start berating members whose background you have no clue about. However, dissing your grammar would be too easy. So, I'll move on and address your statements, instead. How can you be "100 percent sure" that none of us know the whole story? Pray tell, what IS the whole story? How can a child with a boot-print on his head possibly be blown out of proportion? What excuse could there be for the boot-print and the subsequent events that unfolded? The child purposefully imprinted himself with the boot-print in an elaborate ruse to remove his father from the home? I call bullshit. What the fuck does Ms. Martinez's run for office have to do with anything that happened to the child? Did she tiptoe into the house and steal the father's boots and hurt the child herself? Again, I call bullshit.

I suggest you tell your "reliable source" to put up or shut up. Prove the news story wrong. Personally, I think that one person (who supports an abuser and the wet hole he is attached to) spouting off about how Ms. Martinez running for office caused all this is not a reliable source.

P.S. Please ignore my evil horns. The come out when I get angry. Happens a lot in the Din of Sin.

**tenntitanfan** · October 26th, 2010, 11:38 AM

WTF is a YAKEE? I Googled it because I wondered what it was. Did your dumbass mean YANKEESRULE2010? Maybe you can give us the story on that since you can't give us the story on how Gideon got a shoe print in his forehead. HELLO, HELLO where are you?
As far as Martinez goes, I am proud of her for getting Brianna's Law passed and if she wants to make an example out of every child beater in New Mexico God Help Her!

**thehesbomb** · October 26th, 2010, 09:07 PM

Clearly the kid walked under his father's foot. DUHHH!!!! If the kid wasn't so dumb none of this would have happened! /sarcasm

Fuck you, you brainless little troll.

**ImmortalOne** · October 26th, 2010, 10:57 PM

Are they getting their kids back so they can abuse them again?

**AngelFire** · October 26th, 2010, 11:12 PM

pathetic attempt in defending turds...*yawn*

**DamagedGoods** · October 27th, 2010, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by yakeesrule2010

I am 100 hundred percent sure that none of you know the whole story. so if any of you have even a percentage of a brain i would shut my mouth before it bit off more than it could chew.

How ironic, as I do have a percentage of a brain; so will you shut up like you claimed you would?

**Ninja0980** · October 27th, 2010, 07:38 AM

Note to Yakee,insulting people with poor grammar skills usually won't get you too far.
More to the point,if you know the true story than what is it?
How exactly did shoe prints end up on this poor child? Why would he say his mother threatned to kill him if he told anyone? And why would he tell school staff he was terrified to go home?
Bottom line, unless evidence comes out to show otherwise, we KNOW the story. This child was beaten and abused by the two people who were supposed to love and protect him the most.
Coming here and insulting us is NOT going to sway us to your side. Do us a favor and go defend your child abusing friends elsewhere. We won't stand for it.