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Probation: Woman overwhelmed caring for 3 young children shook her 3mo son because he would not stop crying

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A Sparta woman told police she was overwhelmed caring for three young children when she shook her youngest, a 3-month-old son, because he would not stop crying.

Heather Anne Reiter, 24, is charged with first- and third-degree child abuse for allegedly abusing two of her three children.

Child Protective Services workers became concerned about the children’s well-being during a follow-up check regarding the oldest child, a 3-year-old boy. She and her husband have a 1-year-old as well as the 3-month-old.

The CPS worker “noted substantial bruising on the head and face of (the 1-year-old boy),” and “inappropriate eye movement and attention” of the 3-month-old. The worker also noted numerous healing cuts and scrapes on the oldest boy, Kent County sheriff’s Detective Jason Russo wrote in court documents.

All three of the children were taken for examination at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. During the Dec. 6 examination, the 3-month-old “was found to have bleeding on his brain along with a healing brain bleed,” the detective wrote.

“Her husband Charles Reiter left her alone with the children after she asked him to not leave her alone because she felt uncomfortable being alone with the children,” Russo wrote.

“While alone with the children, Heather said that (the 3-year-old) was running around the trailer while (the 1-year-old) was crying and screaming in his crib and (the 3-month-old) was crying in his bassinet. Heather admitted to hitting (the 1-year-old) twice with an open palm on the left side of his head and face. Heather stated that she then went and picked up (the 3-month-old) out of his crib and shook him because she could not get him to stop crying.”

The detective observed bruising and swelling on the 1-year-old’s face, head and ear.
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She don't look much over 12 herself. Anybody that knew her would be able to tell by looking at her she wasn't doing too good, mentally or physically. But she still made the choice to hurt her babies, now she won't have to worry about the crying.

I just spent the last last 4 hours at my son's house with him and his 3yo foster daughter. I get how they can exhaust you, because I am worn completely out. But you can't beat on them for being what they are: babies who need care and attention and love.
 
This is one of the reasons I have no problems with my tax dollars going to help organizations like Planned Parenthood, which can provide women with all types of birth control, pap/std screenings and mammograms if they're otherwise unable to afford them - and contrary to the oft chanted myth, they don't provide abortions, but only referrals, as they're not set up for any type of surgical procedures at all, nor does any federal medical aid pay for abortions, unless the mother's life is in danger and it's an absolute life or death necessity.
I also think our government should consider higher education grants to low income women who've already had children and are willing to have their tubes tied to prevent further pregnancies.

… “Her husband Charles Reiter left her alone with the children after she asked him to not leave her alone because she felt uncomfortable being alone with the children,” Russo wrote."...

Well, this was another Andrea Yates case just waiting to happen, and she too begged her husband not to leave her alone with their 5 children, her psychiatrists warned him and told him she must have her medication, which he denied, and proceeded to leave her alone with severe postpartum psychosis while she took care of the children.

IMO, the husband should be facing some negligence charges himself, as Rusty Yates should have, but it seems the expectation that a women should be able to deal with the family's children 24/7/365 is a somewhat higher standard than the husbands/boyfriends ability to deal with the children for a few hours per night and on weekends.
I've known women who desperately want to have a job and the kids in daycare, even if everything they earn goes to paying for the daycare, so they can simply have some time away from the house and a break from endless job of being *the sole* full time parent.
 
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