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Newborn Suffers Multiple Fractures; Parents Arrested
A Central Texas couple was in custody Thursday after an investigation into the abuse of an 8-week-old girl who doctors said suffered “numerous fractures to her body.”
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(October 23, 2007)—A Temple couple was in custody Thursday after an investigation into the abuse of an 8-week-old girl who doctors said “suffered numerous fractures to her body.”
The infant’s parents, Rudy Arismendez, 29, and Olga Arteaga, 23, were both named in warrants charging injury to a child.
The investigation that led to the arrests started on Sunday after Scott & White Hospital staff members contacted police about the newborn girl’s injuries.
Child Protective Services investigators were also notified and they took custody of the infant and her 3-year-old brother Sunday evening, Temple police said.
Arismendez was arrested Monday on a misdemeanor assault family violence warrant in connection with an assault on the infant’s mother.
Arteaga was arrested Wednesday at her home in the 600 block of South 11th Street in Temple after in investigators “determined that repeated incidents occurred at the family’s residence.”
Arismendez was served with the injury to a child arrest warrant at the Bell County Jail, where he had been held since Monday.
The infant remained at Scott & White Thursday, police said.
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This is the very thing that sometimes causes me to want to lose my religion..My husband and I have been trying to have a family for the last 4 years and have had no luck, and these pieces of $h^t were blessed with two angels and look what they have done to them!! I agree they both need to be sterilized so they can no longer do this to another child! If those kids need a good, loving home I They are both in my prayers!
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Could it be possible that this child has a freak health problem that causes brittle bones? I've just been wondering about that,because Dr's have jumped to conclusions before. A mother took her child to the Dr. for severe bruising, and was turned in and nearly lost her child, before they tested the child to find a rare disorder. It was a very sad situation. Either way my prayers are with this baby.
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white, black, brown, yellow, green, pink, purple, blue, multi (did I leave one out?) -- what does the race have to do with this? Other than the fact a child was severely injured & another in danger -- geez people for the love of God, Allah, Harry Krishna or WHOEVER/WHATEVER you do or don't believe in, get over the "race card" and focus on the real issue here -- the CHILDREN!! BTW, I'm white!
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