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Second Person Charged With Allegedly Breaking Both Of A Four Month Old Baby Girl’s Legs
July 23, 2020
A second person has been charged with allegedly breaking both of a four-month old baby girl’s legs.
Ashley Anne Mack, age 26 of Red Level, Alabama, was charged with first degree felony aggravated child abuse. She remained in the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $50,000. Dustin Raymond McCurdy, age 27 of Century, was previously charged with first degree felony aggravated child abuse in the case and released on a $100,000 bond.
X-rays showed baby girl had femur fractures on each side of her body. A Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) investigator told the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office that the hospital determined the injuries were consistent with child abuse and had possibly been caused by the pulling on the child’s legs.
“The type of fractures this child has sustained is the most specific fracture seen in child abuse, and is the result of violent shearing (pulling),” an arrest report states.
DCF described McCurdy and Mack as illicit drug users, according to arrest reports.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office alleged the fractures occurred during an altercation between McCurdy and Mack.
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30 Responses to “Second Person Charged With Allegedly Breaking Both Of A Four Month Old Baby Girl’s Legs”
David, how did you get from DCF (non judicial agency) to ineffective justice system? Well, although we agree on the DCF part, the legal bashing was uncalled for. First, Judges don’t MAKE laws, they UPHOLD the law. Statutes of each state set out the sentence for each and every crime. The State prosecutes, the Defense attorney defends the defendant. Anyway, if the defendant is adjudicated guilty by the Judge after a trial, or entering a plea, when the defendant is sentenced it all comes down to the sentence allowed by the Statutes AND the defendant’s prior history which adds points that can boost up the sentence. Unfortunately, none of your post. or this mine matter. Someone knew these young people had no business raising ANOTHER child and yet this poor child suffered. THAT’S where the blame lies.
Until the judicial system stops slapping hands these instances will never stop..the fact one of them is out on bond speaks volumes. There is no fear or respect for the law…NONE!! The need to make parents who have been investigated or arrested for child abuse should have to work as hard to keep/get their children as those couples that want to adopt have to go through!! Prayers for complete healing for that precious baby girl!
Them using drugs is irrelevant. As a recovering addict I couldnt harm a child no matter how high or dope sick I was. Never crossed my mind. Fry both of them
Both being arrested seems weird. Why wouldn’t they just attest the person who pulled the childs legs from the person who originally possessed the child. Seems fairly easy to figure out. If both are accusing one or the other of pulling the childs legs then I suppose both should be arrested.
God bless this child, in my prayers nightly.
I hope they throw the book at the guilty one. He looks high. Hope the baby has a good & safe family member who can take care of it & no permanent problems with its legs. It’s a shame drugs, alcohol & having a good time become more important than the kids. They shouldn’t have kids & get fixed if they feel that way.
Maybe it should be a privilege to bring another human on the planet instead of a given. Its time the unborn have rights. I would not want to be born if I had parents like these two, Yet so many babies have suffered just from being born…what a crying shame.
If they had already lost custody of other children, why would they be allowed to have this one
I agree Debbie! If one child has been permanently removed due to abuse or neglect, a person should not have the opportunity to inflict harm on another innocent, defenseless child!
They already had a daughter taken away from them. They need to be spayed and neutered !!!
I volunteer to break their legs several times over
DEATH PENALTY BY PUBLIC SQUARE HANGING!
Don’t feed a pin of hogs for a week, tie both of them up in the pin with the hogs, justice will be served!!! They deserve much worse…
May they both find “that special ” someone in jail/prison! Wont be so funny when big bubba pays you back !!
They deserve the harshest allowed by law there is no excuse for what these two did. this young man if you want to call him a man will find out what happens to people who abuse children if he goes to prison
Please don’t play tug of war with children.
Drugs create evil monsters.
waste of space
4 month sorry
Life in prison without parole dang 4 years old defenseless gonna let them out on bond system is a joke
BREAK THEIR LEGS!!!
Don’t ever let either one of them get near that child or any other child!
“DCF described McCurdy and Mack as illicit drug users, according to arrest reports.
Being that was known…the DCF is complicit as well.
Just give them a $50.00 bail and have them write, I will not do it again……20 times.
Ineffective justice system as always..the more thing change ..the more they stay the same…
At times I think about if society could take care of trash as this and leave the judges and attorneys out of it ……while the legal teams and judges are busy being “politically correct”
I take it that this was their own baby? How could any parent do this? Drugs or not, there is NO excuse. That child will likely suffer a LOT as she grows up. I just cannot understand how anyone can do such a thing. Pure evil.
This is an another example of people that have let drugs destroy their lives, and cause harm to an innocent baby. So sad that their dependence on a drug over rides their natural parental instincts. Many times in these cases the child is returned to their parents, or grandparents, only to be harmed again by these same people. Prayers for the child and the family members that are caught up in this. Hopefully someone will step up and take this child and protect it from the evil that brought her into this world
Hobble both of them !!!!!
@TJ I completely agree with you. Even if they get “Rehabiitated”, it’s only a matter of time and something else will happen to this beautiful baby girl. I pray that her injuries do not leave a lifetime of complications. The femur is the hardest bone to break in the human body and this baby had both broken. God bless this baby and hope she’s placed with the most loving family that can love and protect her.
Give them a taste of it. Breaks their legs.
They’re actually out on bond?
Here you have four legs that need to be broken.
Don’t ever give that baby back to these two!