Woman charged with using baby as weapon

"Chytoria Graham, 27, of Erie, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. She was held Monday in the Erie County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.'"

What about attempted murder? I wonder if she'll keep custody of the child? Jail time?..I predict postpardum depression as a defense. Maybe She'll share a room with Andrea Yates and discuss fond memories of their children.

I read that the children went to child services. Umm, shouldn't they have stayed with the dad?

if the baby stayed with the dad, he would have turned out worse.

didn't you know?

even if ending up brain-damaged is bad enough, there's absolutely nothing worse than having a father.

and i am absolutely not being sarcastic. nosiree. nope. not at all. never in my lifetime.

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no really. i'm completely 100% being serious. i've never ever been so serious.

you get the idea

I doubt that the other four children are by the current boyfriend. Honestly, I'd offer wagers that the child he was struck with isn't his.

They way I understand things, the children are removed from the home into child services custody. At that point, child services attempts to track down relatives of the children so they can stay with them. In this case, that might include the children's actual fathers. The issue is that the children need to be removed now and so they are placed into temporary custody of the agency.

Now, if any of the four actually are the attacked man's, who according to this article has not been charged with a crime in this incident, then they should stay with him and never should of been removed from the home in the first place.

--Demonspawn

I certainly found that article lacking in critical facts regarding the cirumstances of the crime, but I suppose this can be used once and for all to shut up famnags about how violent men are and how helpless women are since they are physically smaller and not as able to defend themsleves.

I agree that it is likely that the father of the infant is unlikely to be the father of the other children. But, he should get first option custody as their primary care giver over other biological relatives if he wants it and the biological fathers do not.

Was she even charged with assaulting the boyfriend or just assaulting the infant? I am also very surprised that he was not charged with something simply because he is male and therefore must be responsable for anything his girlfriend does.

Here is a quote from fox news...

"People are trying to make a big deal about it, but she did not do it on purpose. ... It was just a mistake,"[the boyfriend] said.

Imagine bloody that?!?!? People trying to make a big deal out of a women using her newborn as a baseball bat. It was only a fractured skull and internal bleeding, after all. Holy christ, I have to stick my eyes with a hot poker.

Why would he say such an idiotic thing, and why the hell is he defending her?!?!?!?

Those 5 kids are SCREWED!!!

....We are only spectators and have no real idea what went on to cause this situation or who the people involved are, but maybe this guy is smart enough to know that the media are sooner or later going to ask what this guy did to anger his girlfriend enough to wield an infant around like a bat, and he is trying to just get the reporters out of his face.

Not saying I think he did anything wrong, or that this woman is justified in any way to do what she did but, if he is not carefull with the things he says to reporters he's going to end up with all the blame.

There is kind of a catch 22 situation for men who are involved with women who commit crimes. If they are not supportive, they get labeled as a cold uncaring person who is part of the (or whole) reason for the females behavior. this is especially true in domestic situations. But if they are caring and supportive they get labeled as wimps or cowards or idiots who cannot even control their wives/girlfriends. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Plus, there is the fact that sometimes when you genuinely love some one you tend to minimize their flaws to the point of overlooking serious issues. Men probably do this much more then women bacause we are not trained to see everything as potentially red flag behavior or abusive like women are.

Still seems like an odd thing for this guy to say when the childs mother may have given his child perminant brain damage but like I said, we don't know what the whole story is.

I'm sure the boyfriend is every bit the loser that the woman is. Perhaps you are right that he is trying to calm the situation before attention turns to him. I have my doubts, though. That would require a bit more sophistication than I'm sure he has.

Something else struck me about this. Has anyone here had a 4-month old baby in the house? I've had two of them (not at the same time...now they are both older).
At 4 months, your lucky if the baby is sleeping 6 hours during the night. So, you are either getting up in the middle of the night to feed, or, you are getting up damned early.

This woman was DRUNK! Do you think she was doing EITHER of those things? How do you even get up if the baby cries? Either the father was doing it, or the kid spent a lot of time hungry in a poopy diaper.

When my first child was a baby, I didn't dare touch alcohol for fear of sleeping through her crying. I was a bit more relaxed with my second, but not to the point where I would drink that much.