07-22-2011, 06:22 AM
23 years old. 3 kids. the welfare card. fine choice in baby-daddy...
i hope the baby lives, but i doubt he will.
Boston Herald
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As Crystle Sears rode in the ambulance Wednesday afternoon, she prayed that God would spare her tiny son — now fighting for his precious life in a Boston hospital after his little body was slammed down on concrete, allegedly by his own father’s hands.
“God,” she said, crying and peering back at the medics tending her injured son, “please don’t take my baby.”
Infant Carmello Sears, just 7 weeks old, is on a respirator in Massachusetts General Hospital.
Sears, a 23-year-old mother of three, fears her baby may have suffered brain damage. She has been constantly at her only son’s side, and spoke to the Herald yesterday when she briefly returned home to retrieve some fresh clothes.
Prosecutors said the harrowing ordeal started when the baby’s father, Carlos Edwards of Melrose, showed up at Sears’ home demanding money Wednesday.
“We were just arguing and he threw him at me — and he slammed on the concrete,” Sears said. “I thought my child was dead.”
“I was just screaming. I don’t even really remember. I’ve just been through so much,” she said. “I picked him up really carefully to make sure nothing was broken, and I just screamed for someone to call the police.”
“He wasn’t crying,” she recalled, her eyes red from tears. “I had to move him to make him cry.”
Edwards, 33, had grabbed the baby when Sears refused to give him any money, prosecutors said.
So Sears handed him an electronic benefits card, and told him to give Carmello back to her, a prosecutor said. Edwards turned around and threw his son 4 feet through the air.
“He said, ‘Here’s your baby. I hope you both die,’ ” said the baby’s grandmother Charlene Nickerson.
Nickerson said her grandson suffered a skull fracture and is showing signs of consciousness, but “he’s in so much pain that tears are coming from his eyes.”
In Malden District Court yesterday, where Edwards hid his face and was held without bail, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald recounted Sears’ horrified cries: “ ‘He killed my child! You killed my child!’ ”
Edwards pleaded not guilty to assault and battery of a child, causing bodily injury, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Sears — also the mother of two daughters, ages 7 and 4, — told the Herald she wanted her baby boy “very much” but his father didn’t want him.
“They’re worried about brain damage,” she said. “He has bruising and bleeding of his brain. He’s on a breathing tube. He just had a blood transfusion this morning.”
i hope the baby lives, but i doubt he will.
Boston Herald
As Crystle Sears rode in the ambulance Wednesday afternoon, she prayed that God would spare her tiny son — now fighting for his precious life in a Boston hospital after his little body was slammed down on concrete, allegedly by his own father’s hands.
“God,” she said, crying and peering back at the medics tending her injured son, “please don’t take my baby.”
Infant Carmello Sears, just 7 weeks old, is on a respirator in Massachusetts General Hospital.
Sears, a 23-year-old mother of three, fears her baby may have suffered brain damage. She has been constantly at her only son’s side, and spoke to the Herald yesterday when she briefly returned home to retrieve some fresh clothes.
Prosecutors said the harrowing ordeal started when the baby’s father, Carlos Edwards of Melrose, showed up at Sears’ home demanding money Wednesday.
“We were just arguing and he threw him at me — and he slammed on the concrete,” Sears said. “I thought my child was dead.”
“I was just screaming. I don’t even really remember. I’ve just been through so much,” she said. “I picked him up really carefully to make sure nothing was broken, and I just screamed for someone to call the police.”
“He wasn’t crying,” she recalled, her eyes red from tears. “I had to move him to make him cry.”
Edwards, 33, had grabbed the baby when Sears refused to give him any money, prosecutors said.
So Sears handed him an electronic benefits card, and told him to give Carmello back to her, a prosecutor said. Edwards turned around and threw his son 4 feet through the air.
“He said, ‘Here’s your baby. I hope you both die,’ ” said the baby’s grandmother Charlene Nickerson.
Nickerson said her grandson suffered a skull fracture and is showing signs of consciousness, but “he’s in so much pain that tears are coming from his eyes.”
In Malden District Court yesterday, where Edwards hid his face and was held without bail, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald recounted Sears’ horrified cries: “ ‘He killed my child! You killed my child!’ ”
Edwards pleaded not guilty to assault and battery of a child, causing bodily injury, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Sears — also the mother of two daughters, ages 7 and 4, — told the Herald she wanted her baby boy “very much” but his father didn’t want him.
“They’re worried about brain damage,” she said. “He has bruising and bleeding of his brain. He’s on a breathing tube. He just had a blood transfusion this morning.”