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Man Charged With Aggravated Child Abuse
September 3, 2014
A call that was dispatched as a report of a child not breathing ended with the arrest of a man who was babysitting the child.
Alfred J. Simpson, 19, of 500 East Fairfield Drive, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one count of aggravated child abuse.
Police were initially dispatched to Pensacola Village, on East Fairfield Drive around 11 p.m. Monday to assist EMS. Upon arrival, officers found the 14-month-old baby unresponsive,
said Pensacola Police Detective Amy Parsons. Simpson and the baby’s 18-year-old mother were on scene.
The baby was taken to a local hospital where it was determined she had a blunt force trauma injury on the rear of her head. She remains hospitalized in critical condition. Simpson told police the child’s mother had a headache and had left the baby in his care while she took a nap. He said while the mother was sleeping he cooked dinner for him and the baby.
Parsons said Simpson told police he left the apartment for several minutes and when he returned, he went to pick up the baby from the living room floor and discovered she was having problems breathing and her body was limp.
Simpson used a woman’s inhaler on the baby in an attempt to get her to breathe. When the mother awakened, Simpson told her an ambulance needed to be called.
Simpson remains jailed with bond set at $50,000.
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4 Responses to “Man Charged With Aggravated Child Abuse”
I agree with molinoman & tc but why did he give that baby another lady’s inhaler, that is wrong
A quick dash to the car is different than by his own admission “several minutes”, and who’s to say how many minutes it really was. Since there apparently was no one else that saw him, they may never know what length of time the child was left alone. Freak accidents can happen, but children that age shouldn’t be left alone like that. He should have put her in a playpen or woke the mother if it was so important he go outside.
Let’s jump on the court of public opinion band wagon and say how bad this young man is for what happened. We don’t know, freak accidents happen, the kid could have fell and injured themselves. Should he have been paying more attention? Sure. How many of us have ran out to our car for a quick minute and left our kids alone?
Truly sad some young ppl now of days jus don’t have a soul as a father I really hate to hear stories of child neglect. Its pretty simple if you don’t want children then stop making them because children don’t choose to be here.