A 4-Year-Old Found Beaten And Abused Said She Thought Her Name Was 'Idiot,'
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The 4-year-old girl had deep purple bruises, a black eye, a swollen cheek and a mark on her forehead.
She also had healing scars across her back, dried blood in the corner of her mouth and ligature marks on her wrist, authorities said.
When a police officer asked her what her name was, she had a startling response: “Idiot.”
Her mother’s live-in boyfriend, police said, regularly called the child “Idiot” instead of using her actual name. He also zip-tied the girl to her bed as a form of punishment, according to a police report.
Clarence Reed, 47, and the child’s mother, Jennifer Denen, 30, both of Hot Springs, Ark., are now charged with domestic battery, permitting abuse of a minor and endangering welfare of a minor.
Police received a call Friday to the Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center, where a staff member told an officer that a malnourished 4-year-old had been abused in her home.
Reed and Denen, who were at the center when police arrived, were later arrested.
Denen told police that she had seen her boyfriend strike her daughter with a plastic bat and said she’d heard Reed frequently call the child “Idiot.”
She admitted not seeking medical care for her daughter, the police report said.
Reed told authorities that he hit the child. But instead of a plastic bat, he told police, he had used a half-inch-thick wooden paddle, according to the report.
He also admitted zip-tying the child to punish her for climbing the kitchen cabinets.
And although he said he had called the child “Idiot,” Reed told police he meant it as a joke.
Cpl. Kirk Zaner, spokesman for the Hot Springs Police Department, told The Post that a total of six kids lived in the home, all of whom are Denen’s children. One, an 11-month-old, is her only child with Reed.
Zaner said the 4-year-old girl and the 11-month-old are now in the custody of the Department of Human Services. The four older siblings are with their biological father.
In 2012, state and local child protective services received about 3.4 million reports of children being abused or neglected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of them, 78 percent, were victims of neglect; 18 percent suffered physical abuse, according to the CDC
About 80 percent of perpetrators were parents, the CDC said, while six percent were relatives other than parents. Four percent of perpetrators were the parents’ unmarried partners.
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So the mother saw her boyfriend strike her child with a bat and called her idiot.....but you still stayed with him and brought him around your other kids?
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stories like this make me sick. any charge involving a child should go to trial within a month. these ? don't deserve a defense. they don't deserve to be heard. they need to go straight to jail for a very very long time and should walk around with a shirt that says child abuser.
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? the mom and her boyfriend. We don't need em. Pieces of ? .
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disgusting
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semi-auto-mato wrote: »stories like this make me sick. any charge involving a child should go to trial within a month. these ? don't deserve a defense. they don't deserve to be heard. they need to go straight to jail for a very very long time and should walk around with a shirt that says child abuser.
? that. Death penalty good with me on this ? . No rehabilitation. Nah. -
put em into a large industrial bowl that's used to hold molten steel, set them over a large fire and let them suffer and cook
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KingFreeman wrote: »? the mom and her boyfriend. We don't need em. Pieces of ? .
This. They both should be shot dead. -
? stay bringing ain't ? ? around their kids, why? Smh. If I were the baby's biological, I'd be on both their ? .
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Always the boyfriend these hoes like watching abuse their babies
She should get the same sentence as that ? -
northside7 wrote: »KingFreeman wrote: »? the mom and her boyfriend. We don't need em. Pieces of ? .
This. They both should be shot dead.
Naw that's too good for them
Let them rot in jail as someone's ?
The inmates will handle it -
Smdh
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White child ,black abuser ?
Calling the child idiot , tying child to post ... Sounds a Lil familiar to what the ancestors went thru ...
*Kanye shrug & continues day* -
White child ,black abuser ?
Calling the child idiot , tying child to post ... Sounds a Lil familiar to what the ancestors went thru ...
*Kanye shrug & continues day*
I agree, FREE THIS BLACK SOLDIER!!!!
Right?
Naw?
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White child ,black abuser ?
Calling the child idiot , tying child to post ... Sounds a Lil familiar to what the ancestors went thru ...
*Kanye shrug & continues day*
No child on this planet deserves that ? or anyone's disregard. Grow up ? . -
Statistics prove the most dangerous place for a child is a home where one parent is cohabitating with their significant other that isn't a parent of the child.
I hate these stories, they take me to such a dark place in what I'd be willing to do to another human being and feel no remorse.
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My blood boils having to learn that a child has been in put danger and had to suffer at the hands of mindless humans.
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The parents should be boiled alive.
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Sum people should not reproduce
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You already know
GUN SHOT. -
death penalty