South Carolina Child Injury Lawyer Blog

A 15-year-old girl has been placed with the Department of Social Services after a 32-year-old woman had been accused of attempting to trade the teenager for an undisclosed amount of crack cocaine.

The woman who tried to negotiate a swap of the teen for drugs is being held in the York County Jail. WBTV of Rock Hill reported that woman was officially charged with illegal neglect toward a child. According the police report, the 15-year-old girl told sheriff’s deputies she was punched while riding in a car with the above-mentioned woman from Chester to Lake Wylie. Also noted in the report, the officer who spoke with the girl found a plethora of severe injuries; scrapes on her hands, knees, and elbows, bruises on her arms and legs, a swelling left-eye, and a knot on the back of her head.

The girl was able to get in contact with the police through the wife of the man who was in negotiations for the teen. The wife had caught the man having an affair with the female trader, and after seeing the teen's injuries agreed to take her to the York County Sheriff's Office.

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As parents, the experienced legal team of Howell and Christmas, LLC, took notice of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's announcement of a voluntary recall of an infant car seat made by Britax. The announcement was made by the Commission earlier this month and is due to the product's potential for laceration and choking hazards. The Chaperone infant car seats were sold at mass and independent retailers nationwide and on the Britax website from June 2009 to October 2010 for about $230.

The cause of four children's injuries and the reason for recall is the harness chest clip, which can break and pose a laceration hazard. There have been three reported cases that cited the chest clip as being the reason for lacerations and scratches to arms and a finger. Also, due to the small size the clip is a choking hazard. There was a single report of an infant placing the clip in his mouth.

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South Carolina child injury lawyers came across the following disturbing incident. A woman operating a daycare out of her home in Aiken, SC has been arrested at that location and charged with homicide by child abuse. The powers that be say that the women had shook 16-month-old boy while under her resulting in the death of the infant. South Carolina child injury lawyers work hard in cases such as these to prevent future wrongdoing by the State's childcare workers.

According to wire reports investigators and medical workers say the boy died of brain injuries, which resulted from shaking and were sustained prior to his mother picking him up from the in home daycare. A child's crying and irritation are common triggers for the frustration that can lead to violence in a caregiver, but there is no reasonable or acceptable excuse to harming an infant.

Around three hours north of the offices of Howell and Christmas, LLC, Charleston accident and injury lawers, is Bennettsville, South Carolina, where last week a woman was charged with neglect in the death of her stillborn child. The 27-week-old child was delivered at Marlboro Park Hospital to a 29-year old woman who tested positive for cocaine in a test administered by hospital officials after the delivery.

The Marlboro County Coroner, Tim Brown, is awaiting the results of the autopsy to determine the exact cause of the infants death. The autopsy is being conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina in downtown Charleston.

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South Carolina injury attorneys came across this troubling case that involves a medical malpractice suit filed against the United States after two deliveries were botched at two different military hospitals that resulted in the death of one child and left the other permanantly disabled. If the plaintiffs in these cases are successful the U.S. Government could potentially pay out a combined sum of over $20 million to the parents of the two children.

Last week a wrongful death lawsuit led to a U.S. District Senior Judge awarding $10.2 million to the family of a child born at the U.S. Naval Hospital down in Jacksonville. The child survived the delivery, but was left with severe brain damage due to the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. At the age of three the severe brain injuries culminated in a fatal seizure.

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