I will NEVER understand people...
2004-12-28 18:31:44 ET

So i get an email from an old high school friend of mine and she has it titled "OHMIGAWD" haha yeah she can't spell but if you knew her you'd understand...anyway i figure it's cause she got a christmas card from me...so i read on and figure out why that's what it's titled.

she recently heard from a friend of hers that a kid we went to high school with killed his girlfriends 14 month old daughter. WTF?! Ok i didn't "know" this guy but i "knew" him sorta...i knew enough to know he was kinda weird. pretty mcuh a loner (which so were a lot of people i knew) and he was always kinda scrawney up until about sophomore/junior year when he started lifting weights (cause they had a weight class at our school, kinda like study hall only you lifted). Then he got really really buff but he still pretty much was super quite and hung with all the "rednecks" and yes i can call them that cause that's what they were, they weren't country boys or cowboys they were friggin rednecks.

anyway, here's the news story....if you pray or whatever you do, please do it for this little girl, well that and tha ti dont ever cross paths with him cause i'll beat the living crap out of him.

"A Plainfield toddler beaten on the day after Christmas because she would not stop crying had been hurt before in an incident investigated by child-welfare authorities, police said.

The child died of her latest injuries Monday, and her mother's boyfriend has been arrested.

Arianna Ingram, 14 months old, had been in critical condition after being taken to Riley Hospital for Children after she was struck on the head and then grasped by the neck Sunday morning, Plainfield Police Capt. Darel Krieger said. He said the girl had suffered a fractured skull.

Nathan Clay Embs, 23, the boyfriend, was arrested on preliminary charges of battery and child neglect. Embs was not the girl's father. Police said the child's mother, 23-year-old Ivy N. Ingram, was not charged, but an investigation continues.

The two share a house in the 300 block of Ellis Street in Plainfield with a friend, 27-year-old Jackie Rinberger, police said. Records show the address was previously the home of Embs' family and that he has lived there at least since he was a teen.

Detectives found evidence that the child had been injured previously and learned that Hendricks County child-welfare officials had been called before, Krieger said. He said the local Child Protection Services office was closed Monday, so details of the previous case were not immediately available.

Calls Monday to the home and to the state Family and Social Services Administration, which operates Child Protection Services offices throughout the state, were not immediately returned.

A police report of Sunday's incident said Ingram told officers that she did not know how the girl was injured.

"She stated that Arianna had been sick throughout the night, and she had let (her daughter) sleep in bed with her," the police report said.

Embs told police he became upset when the child would not stop crying, Krieger said.

The girl was in bed with her mother, Krieger said, but the boyfriend wanted to put the child in a portable crib in the same room.

"He picked the baby up, and she started crying," Krieger said. "He was trying to get her to calm down. She wouldn't, and he got angry and smacked her head against the tubular railing of the portable crib."

The child continued to cry.

"(Embs) put his hand around her neck. He put pressure around her neck," Krieger said. "He heard her sigh, and she quit crying, so he got in bed."

The mother was in the room at the time and told Embs, "Don't be so rough," Krieger said.

The couple got up an hour later, police said, and called for an ambulance when they found the child unresponsive...

...Embs was arrested Sunday on preliminary charges of Class B felony battery, serious bodily injury to a child; and B felony neglect of a child.

Police said the prosecutor's office would file more serious charges today: battery of a child causing death and neglect of a child causing death, both Class A felonies."

--taken from Indystar.com--

what happened to MURDER! but i know why that's what he was charged with, thanks to my lovely law class that i got a C in. But still geesh, he friggin strangled her.

anyway, now my graduating class is up to 1 dead, 1 in prison for killing a kid, and countless with drug related offenses, countless with bebes but no bebes' daddies..and a few at school haha




2004-12-28 19:04:14 ET

ok, that is just unexcusable. That is just one of those stories that makes you both want to cry and to beat the guy within an inch of his life. I was flipping through a magazine at work the other day and ran across an article about the one lady...um.....whats her name who put her two lil kids in a car and pushed them out into the lake...and i just got so heated about it... bc i dont like guys who abuse their wives, or guys who abuse their kids. ESPCIALLY the ones who beat up lil helpless babies bc they wont stop crying!grrrrrrrrr

2004-12-29 09:51:08 ET

yeah that's exactly how i felt *nodnod*

2004-12-29 17:03:02 ET

i just hate those stories, or like the people who shake their bebe's bc they wont stop crying. Did anyone stop to think the kid could be crying for a reason? ppl with nerves/bad temper like that need to just not have kids and make the world a better place.

2004-12-29 19:37:41 ET

well you know what? someone shook me or cracked my head on something i'd be friggin crying to

2004-12-29 21:14:30 ET

most people dont seem to grasp teh concept that smacking a baby or shaking it might actually cause it to cry more....common sense goes a long way.

2004-12-30 03:42:03 ET

that's heart breaking

2004-12-30 17:56:18 ET

well update they are charging the mom as well..but i'm not sure what with yet but she's being charged so that's good since she couldn't get her ass out of the bed and say "hey leave my kid alone"

2004-12-30 20:34:46 ET

yeah, i thought that was a lil weird that she didnt stand up for it. i mean i can understand them being upset and cranky if they hadnt been getting enough sleep...but if they cant take the on the late night responsiblities of raising a child, they shouldnt have hopped into bed...that is just how i feel about it. and they should charge her, for being so docile about it. He probably would have beat her for standing up for it, but i mean....she gave birth to it, the least she could have done was stand up for it (the baby).

2005-01-02 18:59:29 ET

found out some more, the guy that was living with them was a convicted (and non registered) sex offender. and nathan didn't just hit the baby's head on the crib he hit it so hard there was blood on the crib and then he pushed his forearm on the baby's neck. so yeah he deserves to go to prison and get his ass beat by all the fathers in there that can't see their kids...and that's exactly what will happen

2005-01-02 21:04:40 ET

okay...pardon the language but that bastard will get off easy if he gets beat in prison. HE deserves far worse in my eyes. grrrr that angers me.

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