Perhaps she treated the baby like she has been treated in the past. Maybe she didn’t know any better.
Very, very perceptive. Makes me wonder about the "witnesses." Was the 9 year old girl strong enough/physically large enough?
What does an 11-month old weigh? Say, roughly, 15 lbs. I have a 9 year old boy, and he's a tough, outdoorsy, athletic kid, and he would have a great deal of difficulty manhandling a 15-pound baby to death. And as for throwing the baby into a crib--while perched upon what, exactly??? I guess if the side guard is down it's possible, but the whole story stinks. On top of everything else, 11 months old isn't an age where fighting back is possible but it's also not helpless infancy. The baby would have been squirming, grabbing, kicking--not to mention screaming--this 9 year old girl must have been quite a strong little Amazon. And the babysitter stone deaf as well as grossly incompetent. If the story happened as it is being told.
But please, all you other freepers-- Continue to condemn a 9 year old, if that somehow makes you feel as if any kind of justice will come from this horrible situation.