Baby Nearly Smothered With Baby Wipe; Mother and Boyfriend Charged
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Updated: 5:14 PM Sep 27, 2007
Baby Nearly Smothered With Baby Wipe; Mother and Boyfriend Charged
A man is accused of stuffing a baby wipe down an infant's throat.
Posted: 6:11 PM Sep 12, 2007
Reporter: Angela Sparkman
Email Address: angela.sparkman@wymtnews.com
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A man is accused of stuffing a baby wipe down an infant's throat.

That baby's mom is also facing a charge related to the case.

The mother, Shawna Childers, and her boyfriend, Jonathan Crum, are both under investigation after police showed up at Childers' house in Johnson County.

Police say the mother took her baby to the hospital, but now she and her boyfriend are charged with the crime.

Shauna Childers took her eight month old to the Highlands Regional Emergency Room with breathing problems, but doctors were immediately suspicious, and called police.

The abuse charges came when doctors discovered why the baby couldn't breathe.

They found baby wipes lodged in the baby's throat...cutting off his air.

Investigators say doctors didn't believe the child could have swallowed the wipes on his own.

Childers told investigators she wasn't at home when it happened.

“The mother left the infant child with Johnathan Crum, when she returned, she found the child with difficulty breathing and that's when the child was taken to the emergency room,” Trooper Scott Hopkins said.

The baby is now in serious condition at UK Children's Hospital in Lexington.

Crum is charged with first degree criminal abuse and childers is charged with complicity because she left the child alone with Crum.

Crum already pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Childers was just brought from Lexington to Paintsville Wednesday afternoon.


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Posted by: Angry Location: Kentucky on Oct 3, 2007 at 01:24 PM

So she wouldn't have listened anyway? Hmmm...
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Posted by: Danny Location: Inez on Sep 27, 2007 at 04:42 AM

Hey Angry... I did not know anything about this guy, I have a thing call work and college so I dont talk to her as much as I would like. But still yet Shaunna may have been in the wrong with some of this but she still is not as bad as ppl is sayin... I would have told her that she was stupid to bring this guy into her home... but it would have done no good she has a mind of her own... And yes she has another child a little girl, who is alive and well.....
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Posted by: Lisa Location: Canada on Sep 24, 2007 at 01:52 PM

If Childers has other children in her care, she has had no other files open with children protective services and abusive behaviour in her criminal record than I believe that she should not be charged. I pray that the child will survive and Childers learns something from this.
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