James King Shook His 2 Month Old Causing Severe Brain Hemorrhages

[Whisper]

SALISBURY, Md. - A recent case of alleged child abuse is shedding light on a hidden problem that has been steadily increasing in the recession.

19-year-old James King is being held on $300,000 bond at the Wicomico County Detention Center. King is facing several charges, including first-degree child abuse after his 2-month-old daughter suffered brain hemorrhages. In early September, the infant was treated at Peninsula Regional Medical Center and was then transferred to Johns Hopkins. The baby is now in the custody of family members, who now have to give her seizure medication.

King reportedly told officers that money problems and arguments with the baby's mother drove him to shake the child on two separate occasions. The executive director of the Life Crisis Center in Salisbury, Michelle Hughes said the tough economy is behind an significant increase in child abuse cases. Hughes said, "People feel insecure, they are tense, small things set them off that would not have bothered them in the past . . . The child may be the easiest person to take it out on, but the child is the last person to take it out on."
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[Bohring]

arguments with the baby's mother drove him to shake the child

I'm all against domestic abuse, but shake the mother, not the baby! At least she can dial 911! Although some of the mouth-breathers featured on this site might not know a telephone from a tubesteak.

[Tundratot]

Oddly, all these folks seem to know what a telephone is. They talk on them incessantly. They have cell phones and text each other too. But they don't seem to know that you don't shake babies, hit toddlers, or exercise your poor impulse control on living things. No, they ought to throw the remote at that big screen TV they can't really afford, or smash the bumper on their monster truck -- yet, you can tell they value these items precisely because they don't kill or destroy them. Pets and kids (no matter how much they invested in bringing them into the world), just don't rate.