There are some really sick people in the world

[RB TexLa]

Parents accused of 'massive, ongoing physical abuse' of 6-month-old baby on life support

05:17 PM CST on Friday, January 16, 2009
By STEVE THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News
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A brain-damaged 6-month-old baby is on life support at a Dallas hospital, his parents accused of “massive, ongoing physical abuse.”

And soon a judge will preside over the decision of whether the life support should continue for the boy, identified in criminal court records as David Coronado Jr.

By the time he was taken to the hospital last month, David had suffered 42 skeletal injuries, including a severe spinal injury, and had what appeared to be human bite marks, court records show.

In a motion filed this week in Dallas County juvenile court, the baby’s state-appointed attorney/guardian ad litem argues that it’s in the boy’s best interest that life support be withdrawn. The motion notes that the parents, who are in jail, have not consented.

The parents, 23-year-old David Cesar Coronado Sr. and 22-year-old Ruthy Marie Chabolla, told authorities that David, their only child, sleeps with them and that his injuries probably occurred at that time. They also said he had trouble breathing in the past.

When David was brought to the hospital Dec. 17, he had no heart rate and wasn’t breathing, court records show. Staff were able to resuscitate him. He had many marks on his body that resembled bites and had suffered a severe spinal injury, the worst of his 42 separate skeletal injuries, the records show.

At less than 7 pounds, David had gained only one pound since his birth in July. Doctors described him as “neurologically devastated” and said his injuries, some of which had healed by the time he was brought in, were the result of prolonged abuse.

“David is a severely and repeated battered child,” his doctor wrote.

His parents face charges of injury to a child. Each is being held in the Dallas County Jail on $500,000 bail.



http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/011709dnmetabusedbaby.cfd8b26.html

[nini]

1. I believe in forced sterilization for fuckers like them

they should never be able to have another child to hurt.

:grr:

[bdamomma]

2. sad very sad.

[Zuiderelle]

3. Well, that's depressing,

:(

[tammywammy]

4. There's a special place in hell for them. n/t

[lpbk2713]

5. General population while in detention .... please.

Let things take their natural course.

[waiting for hope]

6. I'll probably get slammed for this -

But:

"The parents, 23-year-old David Cesar Coronado Sr. and 22-year-old Ruthy Marie Chabolla," - 23 and 22 still a bit young to be having children. I hate the fact that there is so little attention paid to the education of having a child and being a parent. I feel if each teenager had to go through a program that put them in the position to be responsible for a child (under severe supervision) - there would be less pregnancies for that age group and younger.

My first was born when I was 38 - we tried for two years prior and everyday I thank goodness that I was older and had more patience and wisdom.