Sentenced: DSS warned Cop that his son was at risk, he & his Girlfriend now accused of child abuse

[Sugar Cookie]

A former Winston-Salem police officer was warned about leaving his son in the care of his girlfriend after an October 2018 incident that left the toddler with a black eye and bruises on his face, according to court documents and the child’s mother.

David Benjamin Ingram, 36, who was a corporal with the Winston-Salem Police Department, was fired Oct. 1. The firing came several months after Ingram was arrested and charged with one felony count of negligent child abuse, inflicting serious physical injury; one count of misdemeanor child abuse; and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

His girlfriend, Jaimie Leonard Binkley, 31, is charged with felony intentional child abuse, inflicting serious physical injury; and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

The charges come out of two separate incidents. One happened between Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2018. In that case, Binkley is accused of causing bruising on Ingram’s son, who was 2 years old at the time.

The second incident happened between June 18 and June 19 of this year. In that case, Binkley is alleged to have physically abused the boy, resulting in a fractured femur in the boy’s right leg.

Ingram is accused of improper supervision for leaving his son in Binkley’s care in both incidents.

According to a memorandum from Winston-Salem Assistant City Manager Evan Raleigh, Ingram received a letter dated Feb. 21, 2018, telling him that his son should not be left in Binkley’s care. The letter also said she had been identified as a person found responsible for the abuse or neglect of Ingram’s son and had been added to a list maintained by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services for people determined to be responsible for the abuse or neglect of children, the memorandum said

After he was fired, Ingram appealed the decision through a grievance process. During a hearing, Ingram denied that Binkley abused his son and that he did anything improper by leaving his son in her care. He also initially denied seeing the letter from DSS but later admitted that he had seen it after police investigators obtained a copy of the letter from Ingram’s cellphone, according to the memorandum.
Raleigh wrote in the memorandum that Ingram continued to put his son in Binkley’s care despite the letter.

Forsyth DSS warned man that his son was at risk. He and his girlfriend are now accused of child abuse

A former Winston-Salem police officer was warned about leaving his son in the care of his girlfriend after an October 2018 incident that left the toddler with a black eye

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[Sejanus]

Thick necked rage machines.

 

[Kiddie]

Oh wow. Another abusive cop. How unique and totally unpredictable.

 

[ummmm yea tht part]

They are related, ain't no way they can't be. They fraternal twins I'm convinced

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I hope the judge issues an order that this sperm donor is not allowed to have any contact with the boy.

I wonder how much wrong doing this piece of shit cop did and how many cases will now need to be reviewed?

 

[Prettypink513]

She doesn't look like she's even attracted to men

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

She has tattoos crawling up her neck.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

She doesn't look like she's even attracted to men

Something weird is going on. Her middle name is Leonard.
Jaimie Leonard Binkley

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A former Winston-Salem police officer and his girlfriend were convicted Monday on child abuse charges involving the officer’s son. A Forsyth County prosecutor said the officer put his son in harm’s way when he left him in the care of his girlfriend, even after he was ordered by the court not to do so. And in one of two incidents, the prosecutor said, the child ended up with a broken leg.

The child has consistently said that the girlfriend hurt him, the prosecutor said in a hearing on Monday. And the child’s biological mother told a judge that the boy, now 4, still has nightmares and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

David Benjamin Ingram, 37, a former corporal with the Winston-Salem Police Department, pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor child abuse and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

His girlfriend, Jaimie Leonard Binkley, 33, entered an Alford plea to negligent child abuse, inflicting serious physical injury. Binkley also entered Alford pleas to one count of misdemeanor child abuse and one count of misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

Judge Eric Morgan of Forsyth Superior Court gave Ingram a suspended sentence of 105 days in jail and placed him on supervised probation for 18 months. Binkley was given a suspended sentence of up to two years in prison. Morgan also gave her an active jail sentence of four months and ordered her to serve three years of supervised probation.

A condition of her probation is that she is not to have any contact with the victim in the case — Ingram’s son.

The charges all stem from two incidents — one on Oct. 1, 2018 and another on June 18, 2019. About a month before the first incident, Binkley had the first of the two children the couple would have together. Binkley and Ingram also have a seven-month-old daughter.

Assistant District Attorney Pansy Glanton said Ingram and his son’s mother, Sabrina Buckner, have a custody agreement. On Oct. 1, 2018, Buckner picked up her son, who was 2 at the time, from Ingram at the Winston-Salem Police Department and noticed bruising on her son’s body. She asked Ingram about it, and he gave several explanations, including that her son had run into a door.

She left and took her son to a McDonald’s restaurant to calm him down and called a couple of friends. She started making arrangements to have her son see a pediatrician but changed her mind and took her son to the emergency room at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Doctors found bruises on several parts of his body, including his buttocks, Glanton said. The doctors consulted with a specialist in child abuse, Dr. Anna Leslie Miller-Fitzwater, who said that the injuries could not have been caused by an accident.


During the investigation, police examined text messages between Binkley and Ingram, Glanton said. They revealed that Binkley was frustrated at having to care for the boy and that she had given the boy Benadryl to relieve a headache after he hit his head. Binkley also left the house and went to have a smoothie with her sister. She left her 10-year-old son from a previous relationship to care for Ingram’s son. According to a memorandum from an assistant city manager, Binkley left Ingram’s son with her 10-year-old son for three hours.

Beth Toomes, Ingram’s attorney, said Ingram could not take off from work when Binkley informed him that his child had been injured. It also wasn’t clear if the injury was serious, she said. But Glanton said Binkley should not have left Ingram’s son without adult supervision after a head injury and that Ingram had a responsibility as a parent to immediately go home to see about his son.

Ben Porter, Binkley’s attorney, said that, at the time of the October incident, she had just had a difficult pregnancy and her first child with Ingram spent a month in the hospital. She went to see him every day. And when she made the decision to leave Ingram’s son in the care of her 10-year-old, she didn’t think she was doing a bad thing, Porter said. She now acknowledges she made a poor decision, her attorney said.

The prosecutor said a more serious incident happened on June 18, 2019. At about 8 p.m., Ingram, who worked security at the apartment where the couple lived, went on his rounds. At some point, Binkley put Ingram’s son to bed. The next day, the boy had difficulty walking. Ingram took his son to the hospital, and the boy, then 3, told his father that Binkley had hurt him.

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