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Originally posted by Steeltrap
I couldn't find the link. But this crap is beyond.

By: Sarah Sevier, News 10 Now Web Staff

Syracuse Police have arrested a twenty-year-old woman they say abused her six-week-old daughter.

Police say Heather Dievendorf couldn't get her baby girl, Casey, to stop crying on Friday.

"She had made several attempts to get the child to stop and she said she became angry, she said that she picked the child up by the ankles, held it very hard, swung it around and slammed the child's head against a post in the hallway,” said Syracuse Police Sergeant Tom Connellan.
Dievendorf told police that in the ten minutes following the assault, Casey's crying increased.

Then she was quiet.

Police say Casey slept excessively and vomited for two days before she was taken to the hospital.

“…this happened sometime between 9:00 and 10:00 on Friday morning…the child was not taken to the hospital until Sunday,” said Connellan.

Police say the baby was brought to Upstate Medical Center Sunday night with a fractured skull and bruised legs.

Word of Dievendorf’s arrest spread quickly through the neighborhood.

"To have young kids like that it's just a shock to hear about something like that. Babies only cry when they want something...if the baby wets, the baby's hungry or it just wants to be held. Babies don't just cry for nothing," said neighbor Cristina Powell.

“A particularly disturbing case due to the fact that the child is only six weeks old and the mother did absolutely nothing to help the child after she knew she injured the child…it’s very disturbing,” said Connellan.

According to police, Dievendorf has another child who was taken away from her before Casey's alleged assault.

When she was arrested, police say Dievendorf was on probation for child endangerment

Why on earth would someone do this to a child? 6 weeks old? I just imagine that baby's face while she was swinging her around. I need someone in jail/court/somewhere to hold her by her ankles and swing her around over and over and then swing her head into a pole (why was there a pole in the house? Was she a stripper?) then leave her laying around for two days BEFORE sentencing this piece of trash! And she was on probation for child endangerment?