Mother uses baby as weapon

by Roger Sinasohn (Subscribe to Roger Sinasohn's posts) Oct 10th 2006 12:28PM

Categories: Newborns, Just For Moms, Safety, Development

Stories like this make me think that some people ought to be taken into the woods, dropped down a deep well, and left there. It would be better for humanity overall. Twenty-seven-year-old Chytoria Graham of Erie, Pennsylvania was pissed at her boyfriend. Instead of whacking him with a cast iron frying pan or his golf clubs or something reasonable like that, however, she picked up her four-week-old baby boy by the legs and swung the infant through the air, hitting the boyfriend with the baby's head.

The baby was critically injured, suffering a fracture of the right temporal region and some brain bleeding. The child was flown by helicopter to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh and is in serious condition. Ms. Graham remains in custody on charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. Y'know, I have a temper, just like everyone else. I get mad, and, in the past, have been known to take up weapons against others. But no matter how mad you get, this is inexcusable. The woman's other children have been removed from the home and, hopefully, it will be a very long time before she regains custody of them, if ever. I surely hope the little baby boy survives and finds a family who will treat him like the person he is, instead of a bludgeon.

Thanks, I think, to several tipsters.

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Amber 10-10-2006 @ 2:20PM

There is a special level of hell reserved for this woman.

Daisy 10-10-2006 @ 1:16PM

Wow! What can I say that we aren't all thinking? This is too horrible!

Claire! 10-10-2006 @ 1:12PM

The weirdest thing to me about this story is that I would never consider a baby a good weapon. I don't think it would cross my mind. Not only wouldn't I because it would obviously hurt the baby, but come on....it's not going to hurt the other person. Grab something harder!

Daisy 10-10-2006 @ 1:35PM

Exactly Claire! If I'm going to go to the trouble of actually hitting someone with something I'm going to do it up good..haha!

Ginny 10-10-2006 @ 1:58PM

Too bad I didn't get to give her that black eye!!!!!!!

Jen 10-10-2006 @ 2:34PM

Where do we get in line to pick HER up by the legs and use HER as a weapon? This goes beyond cruel and abusive - it's absolutely hateful. I will be praying for that little boy.

Jen
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mckenna 10-11-2006 @ 12:44AM

When I hear/read this stuff, I feel physically sick to my stomach.

LS 10-10-2006 @ 3:28PM

Why isn't she charged with something with a little more teeth in it, like attempted murder? I think a good prosecutor would have no trouble making that one stick. She should be put away for a long time, and forget about EVER seeing any of those kids again.

ann adams 10-10-2006 @ 3:48PM

I hope she doesn't see the outside of a jail cell for a while. That poor baby.

There probably isn't a law to exactly fit the offense. Who would have dreamed of something like this? Maybe the combined charges will keep her locked up for a while. Meantime, I pray for that baby and for her other kids.

Eden 10-10-2006 @ 6:42PM

There is another layer to this story.

Erie's Department of Children and Youth has been under heavy fire in recent years yet no one in a position of authority is doing anything about their blunders. There are rumors that this might not have been the first time Graham's name crossed their desks. Another girl was murdered by her (adoptive) mother, who was frustrated by the child's special needs. These are just some of the stories that are actually making the news. There are dozens of stories that may only get a local mention (I moved from Erie in July) and who knows how many more that go completely untold.

There are authorities in place who are supposed to help children in these situations but in Erie, they're not even asleep at the wheel; they're nowhere near the wheel. Locally, there's a nearly equal amount of outrage at CYS.

Belinda 10-10-2006 @ 10:19PM

The only time we have ever use our daughter like a "weapon" was for fun! Daddy tought her to hit someone's butt when they are bent over! LOL! Now I am TRYING to unteach her because she nearly got a waitress the other day. :-)

I hope this lady NEVER gets her kids back, people like this need to have their tubes tied too!

Dre 10-11-2006 @ 4:08AM

1. Now, we all know that she used the baby as a weapon ... but the VERY LEAST she could do is have it WORK. Look at how bad she got her ass kicked .. if anyone's going to be so heinous as to use a baby as a weapon, at THE VERY LEAST win the fight.

2. I am the last dude to condone hitting a woman .. but I hope that n*gga knocked her the hell out ..

3. As fas as her saying "it was a mistake" goes, the only mistake here is that she was allowed to have sex and MAKE a baby in the first place ..

4. Am I the only person who thinks she kind of looks like Quasimodo with her eye like that?

Ginny 10-11-2006 @ 6:37PM

Dre - great comments.

Ed Kimble 10-14-2006 @ 11:12AM

Sadly, this woman probably will eventually get her children back after she goes through a year or two of counseling because of the ridiculous fictions that children are better off with their mothers, that families are better off kept together, etc.

But the reality is that parents who abuse their children are so sick that it would take so many years of therapy and retraining to make them into decent parents that the children who need protection from them will be grown up by then -- and continuing the cycle of violence.

Parents who abuse their children should NEVER even be allowed to be around children again. When parents abuse their children, they do FAR MORE damage to their children and to society than non-parent pedophiles. Let's get honest about these monsters!