Estela Ramirez-Placido Got Less Than She Deserved

Aurora, IL- Not a long story, but the details in this horrendous case are going to make your teeth grind and your fists clench. In April of 2007, Estela Ramirez-Placido, 24, became enraged that her 3-year-old son soiled his pants. After cleaning him up, she began to hit him and when the boy fought back, Ramirez-Placido saw red. She held her son against the wall by his neck and punched him in the stomach until he fell to the floor. She then placed her knee on the boy and began slapping him. Loving mother that she is, then grabbed the boy’s left leg and twisted until it snapped in a spiral fracture. [Read more...]

Sarah Scott Put A Twist On Babysitting

Indianapolis, Indiana – Many years ago, infant massage was quite the rave. If you’ve never heard of these classes, well I don’t know where you’ve been! Even the local hospital here in the middle of corn country offered them until the instructor realized the “classroom” was not warm enough to strip these babies down and promote a pleasant experience for all. And although the “setting” wasn’t ideal, some of the techniques were well worth spending a morning around screaming babies and crying mothers. With roots in yoga, reflexology, and Indian massage, these gentle strokes for infants were designed to assist the bonding process, a sense of security, and as your infant learns to relax, longer sleeping patterns follow. So I have to wonder if Sarah Scott was adopting her own form of infant massage when she heard a loud pop from the femur of a baby she was watching. [Read more...]

Michael Norman & Kathy Massie Define Irony

His Myspace &  Her Myspace

Pikeville, KY - Sometimes the irony writes itself.  Like in this Myspace blog from Kathy Massie, the mother of Trevor Jordon Norman.  Called “Daddy It HURTS!”, the entry is a poem about a child killed by his raging, abusive father.  Funny, that, since Massie’s infant son nearly died last month from a broken leg caused by (guess who?) his raging, abusive father.   [Read more...]