Broke Jennifer Cracks Infants Ears Rupturing His Eyes In VIOLENT Rage

I feel horrible because I mean it is a good thing he is at the hospital and I am glad that I made the call so that he is there. But I do not know why he is there and I do not know what happened, I honestly do not, and I really do care for him. Friends, this is the case of nine-month-old Colton Cogal, whose mother Caitlyn took him to the home of Jennifer Baldwin. This video will contain Jennifer Baldwin’s police interview, where Jennifer calls nine-one-one stating Colton is struggling to breathe. It was March the twenty-fifth, two thousand eighteen, in the state of Minnesota. I am going to start this video by first showing you the audio-only interview between police and Jennifer when they arrive at the house, then I am going to show you the audio interview from the police station. I do have some of the crime scene photos; they will be shown throughout. Let me know if you think she is guilty.

He then threw up on the way here so there was so I had to clean up some on the floor. It was you know like formula or whatever, and I said, oh, is he sick? And she said, no, that it is just, you know, just the formula that he just kind of threw back up. And um, but then, you know, right, so she took them out and then handed them to me, and then she left, and he was kind of I sat him down because he can sit up and crawl, and so I sat him down or whatever and he kind of got a little fussy at first, you know, when his mom walked out. But then he was fine for just a short while, and then he was getting fussy, so and I checked his diaper, I changed his diaper, and then I made him a bottle and I laid him on the boy pillow thing, which I guess I think he uses it a lot at the his house and gave that to him and he started drinking it and then he fell asleep.

So I just, you know, I was sitting right on the couch and he is just, you know, sitting, um, he is just sleeping, and then he, you know, we are being quiet, watching TV, well, then he wakes up and then he, you know, like kind of fussy, you know, and so I gave him a second to see if he would just go fall back asleep, which, you know, because some, you know, babies do. And so then he did not, he was just kind of fussy, so then I picked him up. So he fell asleep in that, he fell asleep that little pillow thing, yep, and then he had this blanket kind of, you know, like around him, he likes a blanket, and, you know, um, and so then I got him up and that is when I know I am like, and he was just like how long was he sleeping for, do you think? Maybe twenty minutes, half hour max, no longer. Okay, um, and then when I got him up then I noticed that his, you know, his outfit was wet, probably from throw, you know, on the throwing up and then from, you know, from, you know, I mean drinking, and yeah, so then I go and grab another outfit.

I laid him on the floor, I changed his outfit, but as I am changing him, so he is just in his diaper, his eyes were just kind of like, I do not know how to explain it, but I mean I know when a baby is tired where they are like this, you know, where they are like fighting it, but it is like almost seemed like, I do not know, I just, I do not know how to, it was like his eyes were like rolling. I am like, Colton, Colton, and he does not seem alert, you know, like, Colton, Colton, and you know, at this, at this, you know, nine months, he will look at you when he hears your name, you know, and so he was not being alert. So like, Colton, Colton, and then, um, so then after that, so then I got him dressed and I was was he on the floor so when you were doing that, or did you pick him up? I picked him up and then I so then I was holding him for a second and I was just walking, walking back and forth and holding him like this with my hand on his back so that I could make sure I could feel that his, you know, that he was breathing.

So then I got him dressed and then he kind of seemed to act okay for a second, and then I got him dressed and then he just kind of was still like he would kind of then he would like kind of fall asleep on me for a second and then he would wake up. But then it is like he was doing this like he did not want to hold his head up and so then I so I do not know, just right away I just so I called his mom, Caitlyn, and I said, Caitlyn, I said, you got to get here. I said, I do not know if anything if I am being over, you know, what I said, but something is, you know, I mean, and I do not know, I know that he has been to the hospital a few times so maybe, you know, I I do not know, you know, his, his, you know, I mean, he is supposed to, I guess he still does naps at times, I do not know, but I had, you know, I just, I just, I just didn’t, it felt some like something, you know, I just didn’t feel comfortable, I felt like, you know, so I call her.

So then she is like, okay, I am going to leave whatever. And then a minute later her boyfriend or fiance calls me, Logan, the dad, and says, I am on my way, what is going on? And I told him and he said, call the ambulance. And so and I literally hung up with him and I called the ambulance right away. And then do you think could he like hit his head on anything, or no? He was there was nothing around him except for that brown blanket and he was staying right here, okay. I mean, this is the only thing that may have been which, but no, I mean, he was lying right here and you can see it is all wet because when he fell asleep drinking his bottle, yeah, it like, you know, so I took his bottle away and set it on the table because it was like he fell asleep drinking it.

So it was like dripping, that is how his outfit got wet, right? Okay, and he was sleeping on the couch and she was in the room and I was just sitting on the couch next to him watching TV, sure, yeah, I got you. So when you were trying to like wake him up, did you shake him at all, or just kind of pat him, or what? You no, and when I well no, he was awake because his eyes were open, but when he was crying down here I am like, I am like, Colton, Colton, or whatever, so I picked him up, I am like, it is okay, you know, just doing this, like, yeah, because he was just seemed like he was upset. But then when I went to when then his outfit was wet so I wanted to go change him and I laid him on the floor, that is when his eyes started. So then when he was just in his diaper I did not even wait to put his clothes back on, I picked him up, you know, on in just his diaper and so I am just doing this or whatever and patting his back and having my hand rubbing his back and having my hand on his back so that I can hear or I feel that he is breathing, because sometimes, you know, I mean, you know, I just wanted to make sure because then that is what I was freaking out, because I know he was recently in the hospital with having breathing issues.

So I was making, you know, so then then he seemed to be doing better and it sounded like he was like really congested or like sounded like, I do not know, like I mean, he is just like like, you know, like right in like the chest area, which, you know, he was recently sick. And so then he seemed to be better for a second, so then I set him on the ground, got his put his onesie on and then, but then he just was not alert, I am like, Colton, Colton, and he just seemed like really tired, but it was not his normal self tired. And I know that he had just woken up from a short nap so I am like, okay, he could, but I did not feel comfortable laying him back down just because of how, so that is why until you guys got here I was holding him the whole time because I wanted to be able to make sure that I could physically feel that his that you know that there was a heartbeat.

Because I, I do not know that, you know, they told me he has been in the hospital a few times and he has, they have had to bring home my, um, I am not sure what it is called, what, um, a nebulizer, I think, or something that he has had to use at home. I know that they have done that before, um, so I, so, you know, I, I mean, I do not know, I just, so I called his mom right away and then called you guys and, you know, and she just said he threw up. I thought she said last night, and then he did throw up this on the way here, um, you know, so I, I do not know.

And then he was fussy, like shortly after he got here, so I gave him a bottle and he fell asleep and then woke up and then all this happened, and yeah, and it was well he was kind of like he was like that and then for a minute he was kind of alert and then he went like that again. So when he was kind of alert that is when I then got him dressed, change, because I, but first when I he started when I laid him down to change his outfit that was soaking wet, that is when I could see his eyes doing that, and I am like, so then I picked him up and was holding him and I am pacing back and forth from the sink to the door, and I was on the phone with his mom while I am doing it, like, Colton, Colton, you know, and I had my hand here to make sure that I could feel a heartbeat.

And then all of a sudden then he was he made a couple noises, you know, grunting or whatever, you know, and then then it seemed like he was fine, you know, again. So then I laid him back down on the floor, put his outfit back on, put outfit on him, and then picked him back up and then I, I was holding him until you guys got here. Okay, so I mean, and he sleeps, I guess, from because, you know, he, um, I just bring this out for him, but Caitlyn, the mom, and Logan, the dad, both say that he both sleeps using this quite often, but I was sitting right here and he was right here, so, you know, sure, I got you. Okay, is Caitlyn the mom? Caitlyn is, yes. Do, do mom and dad live together? They do, they live together at Caitlyn’s mom’s house.

So that is the end of the initial police interview at her house. They then take her to the station a day later, interview her again. I am going to play that for you now. Before I do, let me give you some of the autopsy results so you can understand the impact the injuries on the child. There was evidence of blunt force head injury, a subdural hematoma. There was brain damage and cell death caused by oxygen and blood deprivation. There were contusions on the left scalp and right ear. In addition, the examination of the child’s eyes revealed retinal hemorrhages in both eyes extended through all retinal layers, retinal folds, and hemorrhages surrounding the optic nerves. But at this moment the child is still alive at the hospital. Let me play the second interview for you now, then at the end I will give you the full police report.

Sitting on the couch with my son who had fallen asleep and he sat got up and was fussing, so I got up and picked him up. And when I picked him up then I noticed that because he was wearing just a what do you call him like the one piece, you know, button-up, snap-up outfit, you know, like a onesie, yep. And so it was wet, it was probably from, you know, with his bottle and he fell asleep dripping. So, um, I was holding him and went to the dining room into the diaper bag to grab another outfit and, um, or then I laid him on the floor in the living room and I was taking his outfit off and as I when I took his outfit off, that is when all of a sudden when when you like and and I, you know, I do not know Colton very well.

I mean I do, but I don’t, but I mean I have four kids so I and I worked at a, you know, hospital for ten years so I am pretty, you know, um, but he wasn’t he was like seeing like, I mean, he was like, so he is laying there and I was had his clothes, but then he was like laying there and he all of a sudden was like, you know, like like this or whatever, I do not know, it just seemed kind of weird, I am like, Colton, Colton, and he would not look at me, which usually a kid would, you know, make eye contact, and he didn’t do that. And so then I picked him up and, you know, I was holding him for a second or whatever, just kind of popped, and he like rests his rests his head on me and I was just kind of rubbing his back and, you know, patting his back.

And then, you know, then I looked at him again and then he seemed, you know, like, so I didn’t know if at first maybe if he was just kind of a little tired or just waking up, I do not know. So then I laid laid him back down on the floor so that I could put the outfit on him, and then when I was putting the outfit back on him I noticed it was there is something with his eyes again where he was like, I do not even know how to explain it, like, like, I do not know how to explain it, flailing and stuff. Well, not flailing, I mean it was like, but then it is like his eyes would roll back and I do not know, it was just it was different.

Not like I do not know how to explain it, it was it was just different. And then he was so then I picked him up again and then he was like kind of like breathing, like it it kind of like sounded like he had like which because I know my kids have had it before, like if they have like a bunch of crap, you know, in their lungs, which they will tell you, doctors will tell you, it is kind of gross, but you blow in their mouth and then a bunch of crap will come out of their nose, you know. And so he was kind of, you know, breathing kind of like like almost like kind of almost like after you have been crying and the baby is calming down type of cry, like, you know, like I do not, it was he was just acting, it was weird.

It was I didn’t there was I do not know, something from just. And then when I was holding him for a minute, he like put his head down so he was laying on my shoulder and I was just kind of walking back and forth and rocking him, and then like the and then he put his head up, but then like he was putting his head back or whatever and like, well, I don’t and then I was like, Colton, Colton, and he wasn’t she was like looking or his eyes were still doing that. And so right away I called Caitlyn and I said, you need to come and get Chase, or sorry, not Chase, Colton, I said, something is not right. And so I kind of was the most distressing thing that you saw that he was doing.

It was the where he it was it was the when I was holding him, he was just or like when I was changing him, like like he was like in a different world, like he was just like his eyes were half open and he he like I, you know, and then when I would say Colton, like most kids will look at you, you know, and he wouldn’t do that. So, um, I do not, it just there was I do not, it was just I do not know how to explain it, it was just really weird when I change when I went to go change him and that is why I picked him up right away, so he was just in a diaper at first, and, you know, and I was like, you know, and then I put him back down to get him dressed because I did not want him to get cold.

But then I picked him back up again, and I do not know, because I know that he recently was he has been in the hospital a few times and I do not know everything. I know I think one time they said RSV or something, um, but a few weeks ago he was at the hospital and it was something to do with breathing. They had him I do not know if they had him on oxygen, but they they sent home a nebulizer, um, with him and they did I guess the doctor did say that possibly could be asthma, but at that young of age they do not really, you know, like to give the, you know, give you the diagnosis of asthma.

So he was it was just the his breathing, it just some I do not know, it just didn’t like with his eyes and his breathing, it just didn’t I do not know, I just had like that I do not know that mother instinct or I do not know what if what do you call it? But so I called her and just said, Caitlyn, and because I was just kind of, you know, freaking out, I am like, Caitlyn, you need to come and get Colton. And she said, why? And I said, he is just, I said, there is just something not right. I said, when I went and I explained it to her, you know, that he fell asleep shortly with the bottle, but then woke up, and I said, when I was changing him, I said that it was just there is something about in his eyes where his eyes were kind of like rolling back or like like, you know, like I do not know.

I and I was trying to explain it to her and I said, um, you know, and I said in his breathing and I said, you know, he breathes, but I kept so as I was, you know, because I know that he has, which I I do not know exactly what his diagnosis are from being in the hospital before, I just know that he has been there for some times for his breathing. So then that is what I was panicky more as far as, you know, because he was kind of like like just breathing in a little different. So when I was holding him I had my hand like so he is right here and I was had my hand like here the whole time so that I could feel his heartbeat, um, and so I was just holding her and I just said you need to come and get him, something just does not feel right.

And so then she then a few minutes later Logan, who is the dad, had called me and I kind of explained to him again, um, what had what was going on, whatever, and I said I know that he was, you know, recently in the hospital and I said, you know, I do not know, I said, I just there is just, you know, I just don’t feel comfortable, something is not right, I just have this, you know, you super nervous, but it didn’t feel right. Well, at first I was thinking, at first I am like, am I overreacting? But then as he kept where he I would be like, Colton, Colton, and I kept saying his name and he would not, you know, then I would lay him like put him like flip him like and lay him like this and like, Colton, Colton, and he is still doing that eye thing that, um, you know, and would not look at me.

And so then Logan called me and I kind of explained to him, you know, what was going on and they, you know, know that he has some previous health issues or whatever, you know, from being at the hospital. So, um, he had just said, well, um, he said, I am on my way and, you know, and at this point, you know, because it was kind of freaking me out because I wasn’t acting like he should be, I know how he is when he is, you know, normal or, you know, and so, um, I just told him that he needed, you know, that so he says, I am on my way and whatever. And I said, okay, and I am kind of crying and I am like, please just get here.

And he says, well, if you need to, he says, call an ambulance. And I then I literally hung up with him and I looked at Colton again, I was holding him and I looked at him and he still was doing that like kind of fading in and out of sleep, but he just did not look right, I can’t I do not know how to explain it. But so I call I just I made the decision and I just called nine-one-one because I know that he is was just like three weeks ago in the hospital for something with his oxygen level or with breathing and the nebulizer, and which I think he still takes, I am not sure, but I just I know that it was recent so I, you know, I do not, you know, I just didn’t want to mess around and so I called the ambulance.

And then, um, they came and then Logan came, you know, a few minutes after he and he just started yelling at me or whatever and he is like, something happened, he is like, what happened, Jennifer, whatever? Like I was like, nothing. And he is like, he has a bruise on his head. I am like, now there is a bruise? I am like, a bruise? So then he sent me a picture and he is like, and and it is weird because I am like, well, I didn’t notice a bruise when I am sorry, it is my boyfriend and, um, I said, I didn’t notice a bruise when he was here and I said, when and when the police and when the EMT were here, I said, there was no mention about a bruise.

And he told me, he said, I didn’t see a bruise either and he said, but there is one now. And I am like, you know, so then I mean, he is just yelling at me, he is like, so what happened? And he was like, if you do not tell me the police are going to be there and they are going to be questioning you. He is like, just yelling at me, and I am like, I do not like and I told him what happened, I am like, I do not know what happened, you know, I said, he was a little fussy, I said, Caitlyn told me he threw up last night and had a fever and then he threw up today, and I said, and he I told I was explaining, I told him, you know, how Caitlyn said he was just like I explained, say he was just very just very fatigued and just very tired like and she said he was like that yesterday.

Well then I am talking about the bruise and which kind of just it was kind of weird, um, I said, well, I didn’t see one and I said, he was well I didn’t see one at the house either, but there is one now. And then he tells me because he starts work fairly early, I want to say seven, seven-thirty, I think, is when he has to be there, so he is leaving fairly early and he had said that, um, he said, well, there was no bruise on his head this morning before I left for work or something, well, which and I didn’t think about at the time, but then after I am thinking about like, well, who before you go to work in the morning who usually checks over there, you know what I mean?

I mean, Caitlyn was there, you know, so I am like, so I am thinking, well, why would you check his head? Or I don’t know, it just seemed weird how I find out about the bruise or whatever. And then he is telling me, well, I didn’t see it at your house either and but it is there now, but then telling me he is like, well, Jenny, it was something happened because it wasn’t there this morning because I checked before I left for work, I checked and there was no bruise, which I didn’t, you know, at the time I am crying and I am just trying to gather all this, you know, and then afterwards I am thinking about it, I am like, why would he tell me that that he checked this morning and there was no bruise on his head?

It concerns me that he got so sick so fast, you know, and so I do not know, I do not honestly know if that means that it likely happened either right before he got dropped off or while he was in your care. I do not know what that mean I mean, but he was sick the night before and so she had already when I called and tell her you got to come pick him up because he is just, you know, there is just something, he is just, you know, something not right. And she had said that she was planning on bringing him into the hospital because she thought that he may have the flu or or pneumonia or whatever because somebody else just recently died or something and he had a fever yesterday and threw up yesterday and this morning on the way to my house.

So why she didn’t just go right to the doctor, I do not know. Yeah, you know, I, I do not know, but I mean I didn’t have them for I mean these things happen from time to time, we investigate them, I wouldn’t say fairly often, but you know, infants in particular aren’t really good at protecting themselves because they are helpless basically and we do get cases like this from time to time. And it is very rare when we find an infant has been injured by somebody intentionally. Usually what happens is they have they have been dropped, they have been put on a bed. I know I know that not with me, but I know that Caitlyn had shared with me before and I, you know, I couldn’t tell you when or how, if it is happening, the ones I know he has fallen off the bed before.

Well, the last couple like this that I worked, um, one the baby fell out of a, you know, one of those mechanized swings, yep, and you know, it is accidental, these things are almost always accidental. The one before that the baby was on the bed and rolled or was jostled and fell on and hit his head on the floor. I mean, like I said, these things are usually accidental, right? Um, well the doctors are telling us that this injury is what they call acute, and again, I am not a doctor, but they have explained this to us. They feel that this is an acute injury, meaning this didn’t happen twenty-four hours before you you called for an ambulance. This happened within a fairly narrow window before the before the emergency was determined.

Now that does not mean you have anything to do with it, I am just saying the doctors, um, they receive a lot of training in these sorts of injuries and they are telling us that this is an acute injury that couldn’t have happened too much before the police and the ambulance were called. Yeah, I didn’t have them very much before, and you know, and and I don’t know and I don’t I have so Logan sent me a picture of the bruise or, you know, the side of his face and Andy, you know, had looked at it and, you know, because I mean it is there, but it is kind of I mean it is there, but it is not like like, whoa, you know, and there is like a little mark or line or something.

And Andy said and just out, I don’t know, and he wasn’t even there, he was working at the time, but he said that looks like like a car door, that is what he because of the there is like like a little line or something, that is what he had said, he is like that looks like, you know, like that a car door like got hit, you know. And if she was in a hurry, I mean I am not saying that the that is just what his thought, you know. But then when I we were talking to Luke, Logan’s brother, for a quick minute, you know, when he came to get Logan’s car, and I was asking how he was doing, and I had told him I Caitlyn had told me that he was that he threw up last night and had a fever and he is like, he didn’t have a fever last night.

I am like, I was like, Caitlyn told me he did, and he is like, he did not. I mean he was just I mean like angry and just like calling me a liar because I am telling him something that Colton’s mom told me. I mean why would she lie about it? If he had a fever he did, you know I mean she told me on the phone he had a fever last night and she even had the Tylenol on the diaper bag. The reason I mentioned that, Jenny, is that I want you to understand we weren’t there, we don’t know what happened, you may not have been wherever this happened either, but I I need you to understand something that is really important right here right now.

Yeah, ordinarily when these things happen it has been the result of an accident, baby got dropped, baby rolled off the couch, somebody fell asleep, something bad happened, and sometimes people don’t want to tell us that the problem just let me finish before you before you before you offer a response. But the the problem when they don’t tell us this accident happened is it leaves people later on to wonder whether it was intentional or not. And like I said, it is a rare person who intentionally harms a child and that I guess my point is if something happened, an accident, that is something we need to know now, you know what I mean?

Because if our investigation ultimately determines that he was injured in your care and you have said there were no accidents, that leaves people only to conclude there were only intentional things that happened. And so if you dropped him, for example, it is really important that we understand this so we can frame this investigation the way that is fair. I literally carried him from the kitchen probably like ten steps and sat him down. Now I sat him up and I had, you know, and then I had to get the boy pillow because he is still wobbly, and you know, sometimes he will be sitting there and he reaches for a toy and he tips over. But I have carpet.

My son and him were playing and, you know, and, you know, Caitlyn would even tell me that there has been several times that Colton grabs a toy, whatever, and whacks himself in the head, you know, I mean, because, you know, he is a baby, he I mean I know my daughter, I mean kids do that, but I didn’t drop him. I mean, well the doctors have told us that this injury it is not possible that a child could have done this to themselves by tipping over or some of the things you describe. I have a couple of kids and they are older, but I get exactly what you are saying, kids do all kinds of stuff.

But the doctors when they have looked at these injuries have said this isn’t something that could have happened and whomever was with him at the time wouldn’t know that he had fallen or been dropped or see. He never cried. I mean the only time that I ever stepped away was just to quick go to the bathroom, which I left the door open, um, and then to go make his bottle. I never and that is all within, you know, like fifteen feet from, you know, I never, and he never, except for that fussy that little fussiness that he did when I took the bottle away from him, that was my son’s, and I gave him, you know, that is the only time. And then that fussy the little fussiness that he had when his mom left.

And here is my concern, is how he was able to play for twenty minutes on the floor, hold himself, he was just he was just sitting there and my son was like handing him toys, right? And then and again I am not a doctor, I think they will be able to narrow this much further down for us and they will be able to answer questions that I have now that I don’t know the answer to. I do not know what happened. Colton is the only one that knows what happened and the person who was there with him when he got hurt. All I know is he has a severe injury to his head that must have happened from either a large fall or something falling on him or someone fall unless unless a toy he didn’t fall, yeah.

And they are they are explaining it that unfortunately it would have to be something very violent, something that, you know, a large item hit him or he fell down the stairs or something like that, something that had consider. The doors always shut because I have a three and a two-year-old, so I mean the door is shut and it even has the childproof locks on it, I mean I have the lock on my stove, I mean my house is very, I mean I have to lock the child safety things on all the doors and I have it on my stove and everything because my kids are at that age, you know, on the cupboards, you have to, you know, you can’t just open and you have that is the kid, you know, I mean my house is like safety or kid-proof or whatever, I mean I so no he never he has never even been in my basement.

Well, like I said, we wanted to make sure that we gave you that gave you the opportunity to tell us that. We don’t we don’t have hard answers tonight on timelines and exactly when they will be able to narrow down when this occurred, that I suspect it is going to be close to the time either she dropped him off or you he was in your care. You have got my car. So now question when, because you asked it, so somebody called CPS? They called them today, that is or I believe so, but I am not sure yet. Somebody then calling with concerns about Caitlyn or Logan? Well, one of the issues is there is nobody at CPS right now, you know, by by the time I heard that somebody may have made a report it was after hours and there is I can’t call them, so I don’t know.

I just know that supposedly a report was made, but I don’t know who called yet. I don’t know what they alleged, I don’t know what it involved. I would have yeah, I would have no reason to call, because I mean Caitlyn is kind of if you if you ever watch the show Friends, I don’t know if you ever do, but Phoebe, how she is just kind of like flaky kind of, sometimes that is Caitlyn, but she has never given me the impression, you know, that she would do I mean I have would have no reason to, okay, oh no, and you could look at you could pull up my call log on. I am not accusing you, it is just a question I have to ask because I don’t want to have to find you tomorrow and ask you you.

No, I no, if you did I would just like to know why. I mean if I did I would tell I would be honest with you and tell you, but no I have no reason to call on child protection, okay. Do you have any questions for us? All um and is okay if we contact you again and ask you some more questions? Yeah, no, you can call me whenever you need to, okay, I am always have my phone just, you know, it is either somewhere close to me, so so there is a lot there is a lot of people tonight that are very hurt and they are I have been since this happened, I mean my mom tried to call me down, my cousin even Andy, I mean I have been because I I feel horrible because if I mean which good thing he is at the hospital and I am glad that I made the call so that he is there.

But I don’t know why he is there and I don’t know what happened, I honestly don’t, and I really do care for him and I mean Caitlyn is a good friend of well, there is a lot of work that we have to do yet and talk to the medical people to try and figure out what happened and so we are not accusing you, we just have to ask these difficult questions. We have had to ask Caitlyn these same questions and Logan and some other people and so it is all part of the job and we don’t mean to hurt you or or upset you. But my my question is though and if you could just because I really do and after talking with my cousin who my cousin did she I don’t know if she graduated, but she did go to college at some point for like criminal justice social, some like in that area.

And she even thought that was odd when I told her that when I was talking to Logan on the phone the first time and he was telling me about or no the second time and he was like yelling at me and was saying that something happened and now this bruise and I am like, what bruise? I am like, I never saw and I was like, and he didn’t have a bruise, he is like, well I didn’t see one there either, but now there is one. And he said to me, which I didn’t think anything at the time, but after talking talking to a few people, they are all saying, why would he make that comment that he checked his son or didn’t see anything on his son prior to him going to work this morning?

I mean let me put let me put your mind a little bit about that. He had explained that he gets up to go to work before everybody else does and he goes over and he checks on him and gives him a kiss and tucks him in, and you know, I did that with my kids and so I don’t think it is really weird, but if you didn’t understand the context I I get that that would be a weird thing to say. So strike me I don’t know how Colton lay is, because he was he was laying on his back, but then when he did, he was laying like this and then he just kind of went like this and it was more or less like moved his hand and he was still laying on, you know, laying on his belly and he was laying on this side of his head, okay.

You know, but then but then he sat up, yeah, and then he, you know, was just kind of fussy and he seemed fine. I mean he just wasn’t his is usually a pretty happy smiley baby and he wasn’t that when she dropped him off and was kind of fussy when she dropped him off, which has never happened before. And then, you know, and she even said how he was very tired last night too, just like he was this morning prior to her bringing him, she said he is just been like very extremely tired. And I mean I literally part of the reason part of the reason why we wanted to tell you that there is a lot of emotion and stuff going on because everybody else is struggling what happened and what could happen.

If you have problems at the house tonight if people show up or they call you or I mean I have already I have already had Logan I mean like yelling at me. I did I would never ever, but feel free to call nine-one-one right away, the officers are aware of what happened today. No sense I am not to help you right away, I have to worry about someone possibly coming to my house and I live there by myself. I don’t anticipate I don’t anticipate any issues, but I do want to be honest with you that there are a lot of people that are struggling with a lot of high emotions right now. Well I mean I could tell that from Logan on the phone and I could tell that from Luke, who I have never met, who was coming to get the car.

I mean he was just very short with me and I said Caitlyn said he had a fever last night, he didn’t have a freaking fever, I mean just snapped. And I don’t even, you know, and I understand that is his nephew and I understand, I mean I have been dealing with this and crying and I mean there is lots of people feeling upset and answers, yeah, for sure. And I would like to know, I mean I I mean I I have cared for him several times and he is never ever, I mean he is never even gone back to them in a wet diaper. I mean, you know, I mean I mean I he is I I mean as soon as that line starts turning a little blue a new diaper is on. I mean he I am so I mean.

Well we we don’t think somebody is going to come to your house, Chuck just wants you to be comfortable calling us if you have a concern, that is all, okay. They are in search of answers just like you are, people are upset. You imagine how upset you would be if this was your your own child. I know, I totally understand, but I mean we just want they are like coming at me as if you know like I did something wrong, which they know I would never do because they trusted me to watch their kid and I have other children and I am just I mean I am actually like overly like like I mean I don’t even like like I won’t unless you know an adult say or something like oh somebody come over to watch, you know, or make sure that my oldest is in the living room watching my two youngest ones or make or to shower.

I mean I just, you know, I don’t, you know, some people say, oh, just shower and leave the door open. No, because if something happens then you got to get out, get dressed quick and, you know, I mean I just, you know, I mean or I wait until make sure that they are in bed. I mean I am just very, you know, like it feels so bad for that little boy. Yeah, it is upsetting. So what are you said those chances aren’t good or they are good or I mean I think he has got I think he has significant injury and where it goes from here I guess is going to be up to the doctors and stuff at the hospital so they I mean, but I mean he is still is he I mean he is still like breathing and and everything the last the last still do okay.

So that is the end of the police interview. I know she doesn’t quite give you the information you were looking for, but let me read out the police report to you. It will give you more clarification. So when the police arrived at the house they saw the child to be lethargic and laboring to breathe. The child was then transported by ambulance to the hospital where he was treated for a severe head injury, including intracranial bleeding and swelling. Unfortunately, five days later is when Colton died. He suffered severe brain death. Now where the conundrum for me is that when police spoke to Caitlyn the mother, Caitlyn got to Jennifer’s house at ten a.m. Jennifer called police at eleven-fifty. This means the injuries inflicted on the child either happened in that one hour and fifty-minute period or they happened before and it escalated in that period.

So who is our fault? You understand what I am saying? So a pediatric child abuse specialist from Midwest Children’s Resource Center was consulted regarding the child’s injuries. The specialist suggested that a child who has sustained injuries the same injuries as Colton, according to this expert, the injuries would manifest symptoms such as lethargy and unresponsiveness immediately after the infliction of the injury. So according to them this kind of injury that he had happened in that moment, it wasn’t something that happened over time. Now after the autopsy report came in, the police spoke to Jennifer one more time. She admitted she handled the boy aggressively and roughly on that morning. She said she had never handled a child that roughly before.

Jennifer did confirm when the child came in the morning he was completely fine and he was playing with his toys normally. She said she had not gotten much sleep the night before and she had not taken her medications for anxiety and mood disorder that morning. She had issues with the CPS as you heard and she had just regained at that time custody of her children. She was also experiencing financial problems. So because of this Jennifer was sentenced to twenty-one years in prison. I mean it seems like she admitted what she did, but then it makes me think how severe was the punishment that within the hour you injured the boy so much that the pain lasted for five days and then he passes away? What the hell anyway, comment tell me what you think.