How NOT to deal with a febrile infant

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Wow - just wow (reminds me of "Things I learned from my patients" but the article is too long to be posted there)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061127/od_nm/baby_dc_1

Man on trial for putting baby in freezer
Mon Nov 27, 8:40 AM ET

(Reuters) A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

Derrick Hardy faces charges of criminal negligence and assaulting the infant, who was rescued when her mother came home, the Charlottetown Guardian said.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the mother found the girl crammed into the freezer alongside ice cubes and hamburger meat. Hardy said he had left the door ajar but the mother said it had been closed when she returned.

He told a court in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island on Thursday the child had only been in the freezer for about 40 seconds.

Hardy, 21, who admitted to police that he had no real parenting skills to deal with a sick child, said he had noticed the girl was very hot and put a cool cloth on her face, but this had no effect.

He then carried the girl outside into the night air but, frustrated that this also did not work and worried she might drown if placed in a cold bath, he put the baby into the kitchen freezer. She was wearing only an undershirt.

A local doctor said the mother had described her baby as "crying, sobbing and terrified." The child spent several days in hospital to recover from first- and second-degree freezer burns on her head and torso.

Hardy has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The baby's grandmother now has custody of the girl.

 

[Wackie]

I guess it was a sort of logical thinking process? 😕

I wonder if the mother will be charged with endangerment, since grandma now has the baby.

 

[Apollyon]

Mother accused of microwaving baby to death
Ohioan charged year later; no external burns in heat injuries, coroner says

DAYTON, Ohio - A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by putting the baby in a microwave oven.

China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million.

“We have reason to believe, and we have some forensic evidence that is consistent with our belief, that a microwave oven was used in this death,” said Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner’s office.

He said the evidence included high-heat internal injuries and the absence of external burn marks on the baby, Paris Talley.

Arnold was arrested soon after the baby’s death in August 2005, then was released while authorities investigated further. Betz said the case was difficult because “there is not a lot of scientific research and data on the effect of microwaves on human beings.”

The death was ruled a homicide caused by hyperthermia, or high body temperature. The absence of external burns ruled out an open flame, scalding water or a heating pad as the cause, Betz said.

Arnold’s lawyer, Jon Paul Rion, said his client had nothing to do with her child’s death and was stunned when investigators told her that a microwave might have been involved.

“China — as a mother and a person — was horrified that such an act could occur,” Rion said.

The night before the baby was taken to the hospital, Arnold and the child’s father went out for a short time and left Paris with a babysitter, Rion said. The mother didn’t sense anything out of the ordinary until the next morning, when the child was found unconscious, Rion said.

Arnold has three other children.

In 2000, a Virginia woman was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month-old son in a microwave oven. Elizabeth Renee Otte claimed she had no memory of cramming her son in the microwave and turning on the appliance in 1999. Experts said that Otte suffered from epilepsy and that her seizures were followed by blackouts.

 

[BadVB750]

Sometimes it is hard to believe just how stupid people are. 😱

 

[JCserver3]

I can't believe these things happen. It's unthinkable!

 

[deleted109597]

There should be a test. Like in Demolition man.

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

There should be a test. Like in Demolition man.

Explain.

 

[deleted109597]

In Demolition Man (the movie), Sly Stallone and Sandra Bullock are discussing having sex. She mentions that in the future (2032), you can't have children without a license. You also can't have sex either, it is all done with computer, but I digress.
Thus, I am all for childhood reversible sterilization, contingent upon testing. Not to prevent split families, but to prevent dumb people from raising kids.
(I know, dumb people have raised kids in the past, and honestly, I don't think my mom or stepmom would pass any test I would write).

 

[EctopicFetus]

Sometimes it is hard to believe just how stupid people are. 😱

With time you cease to be amazed..

 

[NinerNiner999]

This thread is fun - it's cold, its hot, and displays a genunine human interest story. I nominate this as the feel-good thread of the year. Overall, two thumbs up! 👍 👍

 

[EctopicFetus]

the thing im confused about is I thought that this was how you dealt with this. We have a walk-in freezer in my ed.. i guess we need to figure this out.

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

In Demolition Man (the movie), Sly Stallone and Sandra Bullock are discussing having sex. She mentions that in the future (2032), you can't have children without a license. You also can't have sex either, it is all done with computer, but I digress.
Thus, I am all for childhood reversible sterilization, contingent upon testing. Not to prevent split families, but to prevent dumb people from raising kids.
(I know, dumb people have raised kids in the past, and honestly, I don't think my mom or stepmom would pass any test I would write).

Where can I find this sterilization, and does it come with a time machine to 1986?

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This thread is fun - it's cold, its hot, and displays a genunine human interest story. I nominate this as the feel-good thread of the year. Overall, two thumbs up!

LOLsz!

 

[drewpydog]

LOLsz!

Does that mean laugh out loud seizure?

 

[leviathan]

Does that mean laugh out loud seizure?

 

[leviathan]

A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

My only defense is that he is from Prince Edward Island.

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

Does that mean laugh out loud seizure?

LOLsz!

 

[DropkickMurphy]

"...and the child's father..."

Someone should tell them the correct term is 'baby's daddy"

 

[deleted109597]

Someone should tell them the correct term is 'baby's daddy"

You aren't saying it correctly.

Babydaddy. No apostrophe, no space.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

You aren't saying it correctly.

Babydaddy. No apostrophe, no space.

You can tell I've been away from the ghetto for a while....I've actually started using proper English again and my Ebonics and Spanglish skills are slipping.