Mom charged after nurses find maggots in sick baby's diaper
ANDERSON COUNTY, SC (WYFF) - Police say a mother is facing charges after her sick baby was taken to an emergency room where nurses found maggots in the infant's diaper and the baby tested positive for drug exposure. According to a Honea Path Police Department report, Michelle Butler, 20, had taken her baby to someone else's apartment, and that person told her to get medical attention for the baby, who appeared to have a fever and was pulling at his ears. The other person, whose name and relationship has not been released, gave the baby Tylenol, and told Butler to call a doctor several times, the report said.
The report said that the other person eventually called 911, and the baby was taken to AnMed Health. An officer accompanied the baby to the emergency room and said when nurses removed the baby's diaper, several maggots fell out of it. The baby's blood and urine were tested, and came back positive for exposure to marijuana, the report said.
Officers said they checked Butler's home at Shamrock Apartments on East Hampton Avenue, and they located baby food, formula and diapers for the baby, but they said the apartment was very messy and dirty.Butler is charged with unlawful neglect of a child.
Quoting .Beloved.:disgusting! that poor baby wtf is wrong with people?!
SMH!!!! Neglect of an innocent child is deplorable and on this level it's sickening. I can't imagine. It's unfathomable that a mother could be so abusive. :-(
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WTF????
Quoting jasmom8883:
Quoting .Beloved.:
disgusting! that poor baby wtf is wrong with people?!
SMH!!!! Neglect of an innocent child is deplorable and on this level it's sickening. I can't imagine. It's unfathomable that a mother could be so abusive. :-(
I was thinking the same thing how do maggots get in a diaper? I mean they start out as eggs so the diaper would have had to have been on that child for days if they were actual maggots at that point. That is sick and sad. I hope that she doesn't get that baby back until she gets her life and nasty dirty house in order.
Quoting sweetiepie81:
I'm trying to find out HTH maggot got in the baby diapers! Not that this makesit right but i'm hoping the diapers were in the diapers when the momma put it on rather than here shitting out the maggots kwim? How hard is it to keep a house clean goodness!
Why all the cray mommas gotta be here?
Damn, was she too high to change the baby's diaper or clean the house? That's just a hot mess, I hope she cleans her act up!
Quoting sweetiepie81:
I'm trying to find out HTH maggot got in the baby diapers! Not that this makesit right but i'm hoping the diapers were in the diapers when the momma put it on rather than here shitting out the maggots kwim? How hard is it to keep a house clean goodness!
Could've been from the condition of the house, they said it was a mess.
Quoting krisdev67:I tried my damnest NOT to read this article but I accidently clicked it open anyway. I'm SO tired of people neglecting children and treating them bad....if you don't want your kids, give them to someone that does...that's all I'm saying!
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