Stupid reporters.
It takes them three paragraphs to get to the meat of the story.
Its the SKULL FRACTURE and BROKEN LEG that were the trigger for removing the child.
It takes them til paragraph 6 to inform us that the police thought the injuries were life threatening - enough so that the kid was flown from one hospital to another.
What do the reporters lead with?
A live snake - but they don’t even bother to tell us what kind of snake... garter or boa constrictor !!!
Feeding him Hot sauce - by the soup bowl or by the drop?
and ‘otherwise abused him for nearly a year’. Now that’s pretty general claim.
How about - He’s accused of fracturing the child’s skull and breaking his leg !!!
It’s pretty sad that the unsourced reporter doesn’t understand the basics of journalism.
Even worse that the editor doesn’t either.
But consider the source, a TV station.
“Ya got nice hair and teeth? Ya reasonably good looking? Cool, welcome aboard!”
Good point!
But no one has ever said the media (either print or TV) are any smarter than a bag of hammers...
The reporter was correct in his reporting - the snake and hot sauce tell us the father was evil. This was not a lowlife hitting a child and breaking a leg, it was a monster who got off on torturing an innocent. The “father” should be put to death.
Reporters don’t have the good sense God gave Chickens!