the parents they don't want you to hear about
[h=1]Neglect was apparent in infant's death, Jefferson Parish detective testifies[/h]Four-month-old Kamron Scott was dead for several hours by the time his parents carried his little body to a West Bank hospital in February, a detective testified Wednesday. The staff at West Jefferson Medical Center's trauma room on the night of Feb. 20 found the infant's body covered with
infected sores, some appearing like tears in the skin at his armpits so severe that muscle protruded, Detective Matthew Vasquez of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office testified in a probable cause hearing for the child's mother, Lameeka McKinney.
Feces covered the baby's lower half and he suffered severe diaper rash, Vazquez said. He didn't say how long Kamron wore the same diaper.
"It had been on the kid so long that the skin came off with the diaper," Vasquez testified in the hearing before a magistrate in Gretna.
The Jefferson Parish coroner's office concluded Kamron died from severe dehydration and overall neglect, and the autopsy also yielded evidence of lacerations on the child's liver that was consistent with blunt-force trauma, leading to Kamron 's parents' being arrested Sept. 15, Vazquez said.
The neglect amounts to child abuse under the state's second-degree murder statute, Assistant District Attorney Sunny Funk said. After hearing the testimony, 24th Judicial District Court Magistrate Patricia Joyce found the evidence sufficient
to continue holding McKinney, 23, in jail on a charge of second-degree murder.
Joyce also declined a request by McKinney's attorney, William Doyle, to set a lower bail, meaning McKinney remains in the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna in lieu of $750,000 bail. Seeking a lower bond, Doyle said McKinney has lifelong ties to the West Bank, has no criminal history and has a supportive family.
Kamron is survived by a twin, and the parents have three other children.
Citing statements Kamron 's parents provided, Vasquez said
the baby's father, Robert Scott II, spent the night before the death out drinking and smoking marijuana. McKinney left the children under Scott's care when he returned home on the morning of Feb. 20, the detective said.
Scott, however, passed out and slept through the day, and when he woke that night, he found Kamron was dead on the sofa, Vasquez testified. Scott said he attempted to revive the baby.
Scott called McKinney, who was down the street playing cards, Vasquez said. He told her to rush home, but didn't say why.
the man in the house and the wife playing cards down the street....sickening, article was buried in the local paper while the picture of a white son killing his parents is front page big and bold.
