April 12, 2008. <!----><!---->YORK, Pa. -- (AP) A York City toddler who police said suffered a fatal beating the day after her second birthday had previously been the victim of abuse, the Dauphin County coroner said.
Doctors pronounced Darisabel Baez, 2, dead at Penn State Hershey Medical Center Monday at 9:30 p.m. Police said her mother's boyfriend, Harve Johnson, 26, beat her with a video game controller and cord on Sunday at the mother's home on West Philadelphia Street.
Dauphin County coroner Graham Hentrick said there were bruises and other injuries all over Darisabel's body. Hentrick said an autopsy performed on Tuesday showed the injuries preceded Sunday's fatal beating. Hentrick called the case one of the worst child abuse cases he has ever seen.
Johnson is charged with homicide. Baez's mother, Neida Baez, 19, is charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Police said she did not do anything to prevent the abuse.
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November 9, 2008 at 5:22pm
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa
November 8, 2008 at 6:04am
I asked God for a flower,
I got a garden.
I asked for a tree,
He have the forest.
I asked for a rive,
He gave me the ocean.
I asked for love,
And I got u!
October 26, 2008 at 6:25pm
i thought the controller bite her....
August 30, 2008 at 2:09am
I cant imagine even hitting a child never the less beating them. What the heck was his problem. let me guess the kid was bothering him while he was playing a game? Folks like that dont need kids. They should make it a law that someone like that if they do get out of jail can never have kids, give them an operation to make sure they cant.
August 29, 2008 at 3:56pm
harsh!!!!!!!!!!
August 29, 2008 at 3:17pm
I had never heard about this one. How someone could do that to a child is beyond me.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
August 24, 2008 at 7:36pm
I heard about this, and it is so sad.
August 19, 2008 at 11:26pm
that is horrible, people like that make me so mad. i could never hurt my child or allow someone else too.
August 19, 2008 at 6:05pm
Sick people. Children didn't ask to be born and then suffer that way!
~ writer princess ~
August 19, 2008 at 9:11am
and even though he apparently wasn't hte father, the mom shouldnt have stayed with him if she knew he was abusive to her child. I hope he fries.
Renita