Grandmother kills baby with salt....

[Guest eiker_ir]

FLEETWOOD, Pa. (July 13) - A woman has been charged in the fatal poisoning of her 5-week-old granddaughter, authorities said.

 

Police said that Merry Long, 43, poured about two cups of salt into a can of powdered baby formula because she was angry at her son and his girlfriend, who is the child's mother. The couple and the child were living with Long at the time of the Feb. 11 poisoning, according to authorities.

 

The mother unknowingly mixed the formula with water and fed it to the baby, who went into convulsions and died Feb. 18, officials said.

 

Long fled the area after confessing Feb. 24 that she put salt in the formula because she was angry with the couple for the way they were treating her.

 

Long was charged Friday with homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. Authorities have not explained why they were unable to file charges earlier.

 

She has not been found.

 

The child, Megan Long, died from brain swelling caused by excessive sodium, the Dauphin County coroner's office said.

 

 

fucked up

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Maybe it's post-postpartum depression or something.

 

The mom gives birth and the granny gets psychotic...

[Guest NoCalMike]

That is some fucked up shit. So the grandmother is still on the run?

[Guest Spicy McHaggis]

Gotta do it...

 

Interestingly enough, if the baby had been poisoned 5 weeks ago by a "doctor", it would just have been an exercise of "reproductive rights".

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

That is some fucked up shit. So the grandmother is still on the run?

You mean on the walk?

 

Perhaps she could use as a getaway driver that old guy who plowed into a crowd in California.

 

Oh, and Spicy don't come in here with your ultra-super-sized-extemist right-wing hate speech...

[Guest Vyce]

Gotta do it...

 

Interestingly enough, if the baby had been poisoned 5 weeks ago by a "doctor", it would just have been an exercise of "reproductive rights".

Oh, you are asking for it.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

5 weeks ago, huh..because people get abortions when the kid's about ready to come out and all...perhaps you meant when it was a friggin' zygote.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

No, I think Spicy meant when the bun was 7 1/2 - 8 months in the oven...

[Guest Lil Naitch]

7 1/2 - 8 months is WAY to late for an abortion, and I'm pro-choice.

 

Still, this is screwed up. And now I have "The Little Old Lady from Passadena" stuck in my head.