South Carolina Child Injury Lawyer Blog

A pair of sisters ages 11- and 7-years-old took, or stole depending on how you look at it, their parents SUV for a joyride last week. Fortunately, after the SUV, driven by the 11-year-old girl, flipped on its side, the girls escaped without suffering any serious injuries. Charleston auto accident attorneys came across this odd incident from an article in the Post and Courier.

According to the article, and Charleston police, the girls took the SUV from their parents home around 3 a.m. last Monday morning, an awfully late time for the young girls to be awake, let alone driving. Not long after leaving the residence, a clerk at a convenience store on Savannah Highway at Savage Road called police reporting that an SUV had struck a gas pump. The said store is a little more than three miles from the children's home.

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A 19-year-old Ridgeville woman and her boyfriend from Summerville have been charged with homicide by child abuse. Sadly, this is the second consecutive week that Charleston child injury lawyers have noted this type of cruel incident. Allegedly the woman struck her 16-month-old son because she thought the child was possessed, a more than strange assessment of her child. According to the Dorchester County Coroner's Office, the impact from the strike caused serious head injuries. The child had been rushed to MUSC on January 6, 2011, and died two days later. Doctors called the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office because the injuries were consistent with child abuse.

The woman has been behind bars since January 14, 2011, when she was arrested and charged with homicide by child abuse. Last week, a grand jury returned a direct indictment for the mother's 20-year-old boyfriend for the same charge. The boyfriend has been in jail since last Monday, when he turned himself in at the Dorchester County Detention Center.

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In the following case, South Carolina child injury attorneys find that the South Carolina Department of Corrections failed to have any affect on a man who pleaded guilty 14 years ago to killing an infant. A 42-year-old Greer man has been charged with homicide by child abuse, for the second time, after his 5-month-old daughter died two Sundays ago.

Authorities didn't go into details about the death of the 5-month-old baby girl, but it was noted the cause of death was from serious head injuries. Regardless of the actual events that caused the injuries, this is the second time this man has been faced with the charge of homicide by child abuse. Prosecutors confirmed that he plead guilty in 1996 to the charge in the death of his 11-month-old daughter in Spartenburg County. He was sentenced to the minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and would have been eligible for parole after five years. No doubt prosecutors will be looking for a much harsher penalty if convicted for the second time.

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