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The 29-year-old mom told a Portland police detective that she’d been inspired to circumcise her baby after reading the Old Testament.
The only problem was, her son was already three months old. And she was aware that pediatricians at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital wouldn’t circumcise him because he was too old, she told police.
According to papers filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court this week and obtained by The Oregonian, the prosecution publicly outlined its case for the first time:
Keemonta Peterson told police she watched some YouTube videos about circumcisions. Then around midnight on the morning of Oct. 24 - using a box cutter as a scalpel and a pair of pliers as a tourniquet - she began the procedure. She had no experience.
When the bleeding wouldn’t stop, she tried to stitch her baby up. Her 13-year-old son watched on in distress. After two hours of uncontrolled bleeding, Peterson decided she needed help and called 9-1-1 to her home near East Burnside Street and 127th Avenue.
Medics rushed the infant to OHSU, where he was initially listed in critical condition.
Deputy district attorney John Casalino offered these details in a memorandum opposing Peterson’s attempt to get out of Multnomah County jail this week. Peterson had been locked up since her arrest March 8.
The unemployed mother of four was being held in lieu of $550,000 bail, under accusations of first- and second-degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment. To be convicted of first-degree assault, a judge must find that Peterson caused “serious physical injury to a child under six years of age.”
According to the prosecutor’s motion, a doctor described the baby’s condition upon arrival as life threatening, and the pain as immense.
Today, the boy appears to have recovered, with no apparent permanent injury.
At a hearing Tuesday, the prosecutor tried to persuade a judge not to make it easier for Peterson to get out of jail pending trial. But Peterson’s attorney, Scott Raivio, argued her bail should be reduced. His arguments were supported by a Close Street Supervision deputy, who noted Peterson has strong family support and had been attending mental-health counseling three times a week before she was booked in jail.
Judge David Rees lowered Peterson’s bail to $5,000. She posted $500 — the required 10 percent — and was released Wednesday to the supervision of the deputy. She must check in regularly, among other conditions.
She has been allowed to see her four children, who are staying with family members, during supervised visits.
According to the prosecution, Peterson said she has concerns about her mental health. She told the Oregon Department of Human Services that in the past she has been overcome with paranoia, and she and her children would stay inside. A month after the botched circumcision, she said she suffered “auditory hallucinations” and manic episodes that prevented her from sleeping for days.
She told authorities that she follows the “Hebrew” religion, but doesn’t attend services at any particular establishment.
An OHSU spokeswoman said it's true that pediatricians at OHSU won't perform circumcisions on boys older than four weeks because of the increased pain, need for general anesthesia and greater risk of bleeding. But urologists at the hospital will perform the procedure on boys older than four weeks.
Peterson's trial is tentatively scheduled for June.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/04/more_details_emerge_about_port.htmlThe 29-year-old mom told a Portland police detective that she’d been inspired to... more
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Sadly, this is not an April Fool's joke. 26-year-old Yui Tanaka and her live-in boyfriend are in police custody in Osaka, Japan after the two murdered Tanaka's 3-year-old daughter Shizuku for interrupting their gaming session. According to Nikkei, the mother told investigators that the girl was being "fussy" and "noisy" while the two were trying to play a game and even threw the couple's game console in the trash. "Even when we scolded her, she didn't listen, so we put her in a bag," she said. Tanaka and her boyfriend bound Shizuku's hands and feet with tape, put her in a garbage bag and tied it shut. The child then suffocated to death.
The couple claim they didn't intend to kill Shizuku, which if true, proves the two are not just insane, but insanely stupid. It doesn't help Yui's case that reports are now circulating that she posted a message online that read, "even if this kid died, I wouldn't cry." What a sweetheart.
http://www.switched.com/2011/04/01/yui-tanaka-arrested-for-murdering-daughter/Sadly, this is not an April Fool's joke. 26-year-old Yui Tanaka and her live-in... more
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A woman who sexually abused her own toddler daughter while streaming it live over the Internet was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison. "I never meant to hurt anyone in my family, and I have regretted it ever since," said Maine mom Julie Carr, 33. She was convicted of performing oral sex on her daughter on four occasions while streaming it to a teenager in Britain she had met on an Internet dating site, reports CNN.
Carr was convicted of producing child pornography, and gross sexual assault and exploitation of a minor. "When I see child-pornography, I ask myself: Where are the parents? Where are the people who are supposed to be protecting the child?'" said US District Judge John Woodcock. "Well, Ms. Carr, in your case, we know where the mother was."
http://www.newser.com/story/114907/mom-streamed-her-sex-abuse-of-daughter-2.htmlA woman who sexually abused her own toddler daughter while streaming it live over the... more
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An addled mom is boasting that she injects Botox into her 8-year-old daughter's face every three months so she can be a "star." She also arranges body waxes for her girl. "I wish that I'd had the same advantages when I was younger," mom Kerry Campbell tells the Sun. "I know one day she will be a model, actress, or singer, and having these treatments will ensure she stays looking baby-faced for longer," adds the British beautician who now lives in San Francisco. Campbell buys the Botox and Restalyne on the Internet and first tests them on herself.
Experts warn Botox is considered safe only for adults, yet there are no laws making it illegal to inject it into children, notes the Sun. Little Britney Campbell, a frequent beauty pageant contestant, says she no longer "cries that much" during the injections, and she's looking foward to a "boob and nose job soon, so that I can be a star."
http://www.newser.com/story/114836/mom-gives-daughter-8-botox.htmlAn addled mom is boasting that she injects Botox into her 8-year-old daughter's... more
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Child's Body Found Near Missing Fla. Girl's Home
ORLANDO (AP) ― A team of medical examiners and detectives were hustling to identify the skeletal remains of a child found in a wooded lot in central Florida Thursday, hoping to solve the six-month-old mystery of a missing toddler.
Caylee Anthony, 3, has been reported missing since July. On Thursday, less than a half-mile from where the girl lived, a utility worker stumbled upon remains of a small child.
There was nothing that immediately indicated the remains were Caylee's. But Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary said his investigators and the FBI would work around the clock and through the weekend to identify the child.
"Now the investigation continues," Beary said. "There is a lot of lab work to do. There is a lot of DNA work to do. There is a lot of crime scene work to do."
Caylee's mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, was indicted in October on first-degree murder and other charges, even without a body. She has insisted that she left the girl with a baby sitter in June, but she didn't report her missing until July.
For the past several months, Anthony's family, police and volunteers from around the country have searched for the little girl.
A member of EquuSearch -- one of the volunteer groups -- said they did not check the location in early September because it was submerged in water. When they returned in November, the site had been fenced off.
EquuSearch volunteer Deborah Smith said she believes the remains belong to Caylee.Child's Body Found Near Missing Fla. Girl's Home
ORLANDO (AP) ― A team of... more
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