Mom Gave Son To Michael Love; Child Ends Up Battered

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I didn't know you could just "give" kids away like you do books you already read.

A Gettysburg man faces charges in connection with allegations of child abuse that led to life-threatening injuries and brain surgery for a 4-year-old boy, Adams County's district attorney announced Thursday.

Michael Joseph Love, 22, of 255 Chambersburg St., was the boy's primary caretaker from September until his Dec. 4 arrest after the boy was taken to the hospital with severe injuries, District Attorney Shawn Wagner said in a press release.

The boy, who was not identified, suffered a subdural hematoma, multiple bruises and abrasions, burns on his skin, fractures to three vertebrae, his fingers, corneas and evidence of an older laceration to his liver, Wagner said.

Most of the boy's injuries were "acute," Wagner said, meaning they occurred close to the time he was admitted to the hospital. Doctors didn't have an exact timeline when the older liver injury occurred, he added.
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While at Hershey, the boy underwent brain surgery to control the hematoma, Wagner added.

Testimony at Love's preliminary hearing Wednesday in central court related that the boy's mother gave him to Love in September to be his primary caretaker, Wagner said. Love was not the boy's father, but declined to say what if any custody agreement was in place.

Adams County Children and Youth Services has custody of the boy, Wagner said.

The investigation is ongoing and Wagner said he expects others will be charged.

http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_16976658

[62julietandvoid]

I didn't know you could just "give" kids away like you do books you already read.


http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_16976658

He looks like a cracked out lesbian with an attitude. I hope his and her heads roll.

[badfish76]

I think he looks like he has been up for about a week.

Fucking tweakers SUCK.

I want to start a movement to declare people like this demon possessed and only a good old fashioned burning at the stake will cure them.

[VXIII]

I remember Ronnie, I was like 7 or 8 and my mom got custody of her neices child, she felt it was her duty, her responsibility while her neice was in jail and not making excuses for her behavior but this cycle started many yearss before my mother grew up... Ronnie got the blame for everything that happened in the house, my mom called him snotty nosed Ronnie and would ridicule him, slam his head against the wall and make his nose bleed, we sometimes felt sorry for him and would hold him as he cried, he was about 4 yrs old, she wasnt much nicer to me and my older sister, only the babies, we also got most of the blame for what anyone else did, family members sometimes believe you can add a child to an already overstressed household because they have so many one more wont matter but it does... if you have a kid and you love it, dont leave him or her anywhere else... reason my kids were so stuck under me, it was a point of moral acheivement to show we werent like our family that caused me and my sister to make sure nothing like this ever happened in our homes, even if everyone else told us go get a job, we were going to stay until they were at least teenagers to watch out for them...

[walkingeagle]

I remember Ronnie, I was like 7 or 8 and my mom got custody of her neices child, she felt it was her duty, her responsibility while her neice was in jail and not making excuses for her behavior but this cycle started many yearss before my mother grew up... Ronnie got the blame for everything that happened in the house, my mom called him snotty nosed Ronnie and would ridicule him, slam his head against the wall and make his nose bleed, we sometimes felt sorry for him and would hold him as he cried, he was about 4 yrs old, she wasnt much nicer to me and my older sister, only the babies, we also got most of the blame for what anyone else did, family members sometimes believe you can add a child to an already overstressed household because they have so many one more wont matter but it does... if you have a kid and you love it, dont leave him or her anywhere else... reason my kids were so stuck under me, it was a point of moral acheivement to show we werent like our family that caused me and my sister to make sure nothing like this ever happened in our homes, even if everyone else told us go get a job, we were going to stay until they were at least teenagers to watch out for them...

I went through something like this at about the same age. I took the brunt of his rage. The night that he knocked me out of my chair at the table with a fist to the jaw, I made up my mind. Shortly after, he was beating on my mother, so I grabbed the first thing I found and I stabbed him with it! At 6yo I could only reach an ass cheek but he go the steakfork in the cheek!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Just knew it was going to get stupider.

An Adams County man allegedly burned and beat a 4-year-old boy. The district attorney said the boy isn't Michael Love's son. His mother gave him to Love in September, after they met in a homeless shelter.

Court records say that Love punched the 4-year-old in the stomach five times because the child was hiding food. Love allegedly hit the boy at least 20 times on his arms, legs, stomach, back and head.

The records go on to say that Love failed to seek medical attention for the boy after he fell out of a moving vehicle, and he did nothing after finding the boy face down, gurgling in a bathtub.

Love finally took the 4-year-old to the hospital after he found him unresponsive Dec. 4. Once the boy got there, he needed emergency surgery for blood pooling in his brain.
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Love lived with his girlfriend at the 200 block of Chambersburg street in Gettysburg, where the abuse allegedly happened. She wouldn't talk to news cameras, but Love's next-door neighbor and longtime friend did, and she said he never acted aggressive around her.

"I can't believe he did that. He was always with him. They were always walking together, taking him places, taking care of him," said Michelle Ambris, Love's neighbor and friend.
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On Thursday, the 4-year-old boy was released from Penn State Hershey Medical Center. He's in the care of Adams County.

http://www.whptv.com/news/local/stor...LgS16X9zw.cspx

[Dakota Valkyrie]

There's another kid involved. Must be his girlfriend's son.

Charging documents provide further details about the abuse said to have taken place at least 20 times, another unidentified juvenile told Adams County Children and Youth Services.

The other juvenile told CYS he saw Love on top of the 4-year-old punching him in the stomach five times because he thought the boy was hiding food, according to court documents.

The boy went on to say Love also hit him, but that the 4-year-old got hurt worse, and cried that he wanted his mom when Love hit him, documents state.
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Love said he didn't take the boy to the hospital because he didn't have legal custody and that CYS would take him away, which would upset the boy's mother, according to court documents.
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http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_16988282

"CYS would take him away, which would upset the boy's mother"...Like beating her kid wouldn't upset the mom?