Posted on 05/29/2017 10:52:54 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Police have arrested a 23-year-old daycare worker accused of assaulting an 8-month-old girl during nap time, which resulted in her death. One police official says in his opinion, the victim was “tortured.”
Leah Walden faces numerous charges, including first and second-degree murder, in the death of Reese Bowman.
“It’s giving me cold chills now to even think about it,” said Tim Barth, who watched first responders arrive.
According to police, Walden is seen on video snatching Bowman by one arm several times, as well as placing pillows over her face.
“As a parent you send your child to daycare because you think it’s going to be safe for them,” Shelley Veasey said.
Police say Bowman died on May 23, after officers were called to the Rocket Tiers Learning Center located on South High Street for a report of a baby not breathing.
“Reese Bowman in my opinion was tortured,” said Col. Stanley Branford of Baltimore Police. “Just evil, what motive could you possibly have to treat a baby that way.”
Responding officers found medics performing CPR on an 8-month-old girl, later identified as Bowman.
“You would never think that someone would do something as evil as that because that’s an 8-month-old baby, innocent, that baby was innocent,” one person said.
Bowman was taken to an area hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. Police say there were no obvious signs of “trauma or injuries” to Bowman at that time.
Police immediately began investigating, and spoke with Walden, a caretaker at Rocket Tiers. She told police that she fed Bowman, wrapped her up in a blanket, and placed her in a crib for a nap.
When she returned about 45 minutes later, she said she noticed Bowman was not breathing and contact authorities.
The daycare facility has cameras throughout the center, and investigators began going through the video. The owner of the facility notified police on Wednesday that they had discovered some “disturbing” video.
Police say the video shows Walden putting excessive blankets on Bowman, which covered her head, before snatching Bowman out of the crib by one arm several times, swinging at Bowman as if she were slapping her, then placing pillows over her face.
Walden also walked off camera with Bowman several times, and police say they “can only assume” what Walden may have done off camera.
“It was really sad, they were running back and forth into daycare center. They rushed her as quick as they could into the ambulance. They had her covered up but her little feet were hanging out. It was so sad,” Veasey said.
Police say they do not know why Walden assaulted Bowman, but it appears that Bowman was awake during the assault.
According to police, there have been no previous formal complaints against this daycare facility.
Walden’s bio remained on their website which says “the best part of being a teacher is caring for babies who love me as much as I love them.”
Police say Walden had been working at the daycare for more than 2 years.
The Maryland Department of Education says they put Rocket Tiers under an emergency suspension and a spokesman says they can’t reopen unless a judge allows them to.
According to the Baltimore Sun in July an inspection cited the daycare for six violations. As of September, only four violations were corrected.
Daycare employees are required to undergo criminal background checks. It will take some time to verify whether Walden ever passed hers.
The Bowman Family released the following statement:
“Our family is suffering tremendous pain and wishes to grieve in private. Our hearts are broken. No family should ever have to experience the loss of a child under any circumstances. We await further information from the unfolding investigation.”
Police say Walden did not have a prior record and there doesn’t appear to be other victims but they’re urging parents who are suspicious to call the child abuse center at 443-984-7378.
I had to work for many of the years my child was young. Wished I didn’t have to. Said child survived and is all grown up as well.
Will this be tried as a hate crime? YBlack millennial tortures white baby to death...or did that little cracker get what she had coming to her?
Have you ever thought you are raising a caricature too?
As good little righties, we tell these people that leaving them alone is all that God wants us to do. Then we stand and judge when circumstance steers them into suboptimal arrangement.
You are deluding yourself. Those “loving” and “caring” daycare workers are there for a paycheck, often minimum wage. They may not be bad people, but they have nowhere near the connection with your child that his/her mommie can provide. Your child was yearning for their mommie the whole time.
Certainly we dont if the parents of thr baby really felt this way or not
..but considering what 0bama, the Democrats and a good number of Republicans have done to the good, working people of this nation over the years, it is not out of the realm of possibility.
Glad you brought that up. I have full sympathy for the poor black mom in the ghetto who has absolutely no choice but to work to keep her family together. But that is not what we are talking about here: it is the white mom who wants to “have a career” or wants to “maintain our standard of living” who deposits her kids in a daycare so she can work. I know plenty of those, and they are the children who know they are taking a back seat to their parents love of money.
Oh so now you reduce your judgment? When faced with the obvious?
We can’t have a leave-them-alone society along with a judge-them society.
I’m in. $1,001.
Funny how God works out these issues, though. A parent SHOULD be wanting to spiritually nourish his or her child, but sometimes the parent has absolutely cockamamie ideas of how to do it. Believe me — I’ve been there, done that, and in retrospect glad that I didn’t get embroiled even worse than I was in these cockamamie ideas which raised themselves up against the knowledge of God.
So being aloof from the child in these circumstances might be better for the child’s ultimate spiritual progress towards God who is perfect.
Children need their mommies - and any attempt to state that obvious fact is “judgemental”? You, my friend, are in the wrong forum if you are advocating that children be brought up by nameless and faceless corporate “child care workers.”
And having your child “raised” by some nameless and faceless corporate “child care provider” is preferable? Better to get your own house in order and care for your own child rather than pass them off as they are crying and reaching for you not to abandon them.
Funny how they manage to bring in people that have both names and faces.
Maybe you’re ignoring the name and face of God. Maybe the dame doth protest too much.
They need God even worse.
“They need God even worse.”
Foolish. The only thing they know about God is what they see in their mommies and dads. And if they are abandoned by their parents to be “cared for” in some impersonal daycare center, where they are just one number in a couple of dozen kids, what are they to think about the meaning of love and commitment, if their own mommie has more important things to do than be with them? Yes, I know of situations like this.
You make a big deal about your supposed Christian commitment, but you are denying the Lord who saved you when you advocate the passing off of precious little children to impersonal daycare “providers”, who are no substitute for the mom that God gave them. You should be ashamed of yourself!
Wonder if she has children.
“Maybe you’re ignoring the name and face of God. Maybe the dame doth protest too much.”
God? You are talking about God? Yes, I see on your home page how (in exaggerated font) you blab about your “Christian commitment,” yet somehow you are oblivious to the fundamental order of creation instituted by God, whereby male and female unite and birth children, who are their primary responsibility to raise up in the knowledge of the Lord. Yet you have no problem when those precious children are passed off to minimum-wage “childcare workers,” to sit all day in a room full of likewise abandoned children?
I was always taught to avoid the ad hominem in arguments.
Ad hominem is where Leftists go when they see their arguments have been defeated.
Democrat no doubt
If this isn’t a hate crime then there never should be one labeled again.
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