A Butler County mother is charged after police say she severely abused her baby causing permanent brain damage,
The baby girl remains in the hospital recovering from her injuries due to complications from the trauma.
According to police paperwork, on Aug. 9, Remedios Ramirez was inside the home with her 9-month-old daughter and 3-year-old child.
Ramirez told police it was an accident, that her daughter was in the bedroom on an air mattress, and when she left to go to the kitchen, she heard the baby fall.
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After the infant was rushed to Children’s Hospital and underwent immediate surgery, medical personnel told troopers the child’s injuries were consistent with repetitive, accelerated head trauma, better known as shaken baby syndrome.
Remedios Ramirez is currently pregnant.