April 12th, 2010
Thank you so much for your prayers and well wishes to the baby M. This past week has been so emotional and really put a lot of things in perspective for me. I finally have time to share what happened, it's incredibly long.
First allow me to give you a bit of background: H is my cousin she and I have been sorta close since I moved to Seattle. When I turned 18 she became all anti-black men for some reason (my uncle is the best father and husband i've ever met) and started to exclusively date white men. I had no problem with this until she listed her reasoning. She said she was dating white men because:
Two summers ago I ran into her at a Big Lots and she was buying a pregnancy test. However, she was telling me she was ready for a divorce because SURPRISE: S embodies everything she hated about black men. Every single stereotype she stated she hated about black men, she found in a white man and married him. But later that night that pregnancy test was positive and she said she had to stay with him because he is the father of her children. She had to stay for her children.
To put it lightly, that baby never met this world. But months later she was pregnant again. Four months ago baby M entered our lives. As precious and beautiful as any baby girl could be. By that time S had received warnings not to hit H anymore but found ways around exact wording by choking, pushing, shaking, and dragging her by her hair.
On April 12th, 2010 I was in my Legal Research class and I got a text from my sister that read "Everyone is headed to hospital, M stopped breathing" I immediately left the room to figure out what the hell was going on. All my sister knew was she stopped breathing and had been revived and they were questioning S.
By the time I got the ER she was being rushed to Children's Hospital. I called H's sister and she told me to stay put it was chaos there but to pray for her because she is in very critical condition and in ICU. Due to the nature of the case Child Protective Services were called and they had to take D from H's care. Her parents have temporary custody at this time
Later that day we found out she had been shaken violently, hit in the head, and had cracked ribs.S claims she was crying so he gave her a bath and placed her in her swing and she stopped breathing. He called H first before calling 911.
But here is what really happened:
S was alone with his two children, D and M. He was alone with M and he shook her terribly cracking 5 of her ribs for a total of 8 cracked ribs (the other three were previously cracked ribs the doctors discovered). After he shook her she began having a seizure so he gave her a bath. He then placed her in the swing, and got online. 20 minutes later he noticed she had turned blue and called H.
S has been arrested for first degree child abuse and is currently being held on $1M bond that his parents are trying to get reduced because despite his confession, they think that two year old D did this out of jealousy of his new baby sister.
M remains on life support but is showing some signs of improvement and we're all just praying for a full recovery. I have never felt this pained in my life and I wouldn't wish this on anyone. No child or mother deserves to feel this type of hurt. Please keep praying for her recovery. If you don't believe in God that fine, send positive thoughts, spirit fingers, WHATEVER. I just need her to be okay.
First allow me to give you a bit of background: H is my cousin she and I have been sorta close since I moved to Seattle. When I turned 18 she became all anti-black men for some reason (my uncle is the best father and husband i've ever met) and started to exclusively date white men. I had no problem with this until she listed her reasoning. She said she was dating white men because:
- black men are lazy
- black men have mountains of debt
- black men refuse to work
- black men don't care for their children
- black men are all around thugs and gangsters
- (insert ridiculous stereotype here)
Two summers ago I ran into her at a Big Lots and she was buying a pregnancy test. However, she was telling me she was ready for a divorce because SURPRISE: S embodies everything she hated about black men. Every single stereotype she stated she hated about black men, she found in a white man and married him. But later that night that pregnancy test was positive and she said she had to stay with him because he is the father of her children. She had to stay for her children.
To put it lightly, that baby never met this world. But months later she was pregnant again. Four months ago baby M entered our lives. As precious and beautiful as any baby girl could be. By that time S had received warnings not to hit H anymore but found ways around exact wording by choking, pushing, shaking, and dragging her by her hair.
On April 12th, 2010 I was in my Legal Research class and I got a text from my sister that read "Everyone is headed to hospital, M stopped breathing" I immediately left the room to figure out what the hell was going on. All my sister knew was she stopped breathing and had been revived and they were questioning S.
By the time I got the ER she was being rushed to Children's Hospital. I called H's sister and she told me to stay put it was chaos there but to pray for her because she is in very critical condition and in ICU. Due to the nature of the case Child Protective Services were called and they had to take D from H's care. Her parents have temporary custody at this time
Later that day we found out she had been shaken violently, hit in the head, and had cracked ribs.S claims she was crying so he gave her a bath and placed her in her swing and she stopped breathing. He called H first before calling 911.
But here is what really happened:
S was alone with his two children, D and M. He was alone with M and he shook her terribly cracking 5 of her ribs for a total of 8 cracked ribs (the other three were previously cracked ribs the doctors discovered). After he shook her she began having a seizure so he gave her a bath. He then placed her in the swing, and got online. 20 minutes later he noticed she had turned blue and called H.
S has been arrested for first degree child abuse and is currently being held on $1M bond that his parents are trying to get reduced because despite his confession, they think that two year old D did this out of jealousy of his new baby sister.
M remains on life support but is showing some signs of improvement and we're all just praying for a full recovery. I have never felt this pained in my life and I wouldn't wish this on anyone. No child or mother deserves to feel this type of hurt. Please keep praying for her recovery. If you don't believe in God that fine, send positive thoughts, spirit fingers, WHATEVER. I just need her to be okay.