Couple Kills 13-day-old Baby Found Covered In Bruises With Broken Spine And ‘Massive’ Brain Swelling: Cops

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Utah police are currently searching for a couple they say killed a newborn baby last month.

Couple kills 13-day-old baby found covered in bruises with broken spine and ‘massive’ brain swelling: Cops

WTVT reported that the 13-day-old was found dead in a West Jordan home September 17, leading to the investigation that allegedly uncovered evidence of abuse throughout the boy’s short life.
Police believe 21-year-old Dylan James Kitzmiller had been physically abusive toward the newborn and girlfriend Maria Elena Sullivan, 26.

Sullivan, the infant victim’s mother, is wanted for failing to stop the abuse and after it occurred, report it and seek medical treatment for her son.

NEW: WJ police are looking for these 2. Cops: Dylan Kitzmiller beat a 13 day old to death, the mother, Maria Sullivan, doesn't report. pic.twitter.com/zwii4cNOmh

— Chris Jones (@jonesnews) Ngày 21 tháng 10 năm 2017

An examination of the victim found the boy weighed nearly a pound less than his birth weight and his body was totally covered with bruises and cuts. Reports indicate he had a fractured spine, broken rib and “massive” brain swelling.

Sullivan reportedly told police Kitzmiller regularly used heroin and abused her son, but admitted leaving him in the man’s care.
On the evening of the boy’s death, she reportedly heard him gasping for air and called medical dispatchers, who were not able to restore his breathing.

Police say Kitzmiller admitted using heroin — along with Sullivan — in front of the child. He reportedly said Sullivan was not responsible for any of the victim’s physical injuries.
Authorities had obtained an arrest warrant for both suspect

When 5-year-old Sunshine Oelfke discovered that her classmate couldn’t afford milk at school, she didn’t think twice about using her entire piggy bank to try and help.

5-Year-Old Girl Empties Piggy Bank to Pay for Her Classmates’ Milk

As she sat on her living room floor in Ishpeming, Michigan, her grandmother, Jackie Oelfke, watched her lining up stacks of nickels, pennies, dimes and crinkled bills that was then put into her backpack.

“That piqued my curiosity,” Jackie reported to the CBS News. “Nobody messes with the piggy bank.”

When she asked her grand child what she was doing, Sunshine told her she was taking it to school.
“I’m going to take it for milk money. I’m taking it for my friend Layla,” she explained herself. “She doesn’t get milk — her mom doesn’t have milk money while I do.”
Together, they went to Birchview Elementary School to see the principal and gave her the $30 she had saved up.

According to the news outlet, there are 20 kids in Sunshine’s class and about half couldn’t afford the milk, which costs $0.45 a carton, adding up to $180 a month for those students combined.
After she dropped her off at school, Jackie posted a video on Facebook about her granddaughter’s selfless action, which had since received over 5,000 times view.
People then offered to help the other students who couldn’t afford milk during snack time. It inspired Jackie to take things a step further and try to raise $700 to cover the milk’s cost for the entire semester.

Within one week, according to CBS, she had raised over $1,000 through a GoFundMe page she set up, which would afford every student in Sunshine’s class the chance to receive free milk all year long.
“She doesn’t understand the impact she’s made,” said Jackie. “But now she knows she can do whatever she puts her mind to.”