On the day that Billy Bob Thornton’s daughter, Amanda Brumfield, was babysitting a one-year-old child, the baby later passed away. Brumfield and her husband tried to save the baby’s life, but it ended tragically. Brumfield was subsequently charged with child neglect, after claiming that the baby fell from her playpen, in October.
Her husband made the call to 911 and you can really hear their attempts to save her life. The baby suffered from a fractured skull and a subdural hematoma. These are both call signs for Shaken Baby Syndrome, which is usually caused when someone violently shakes a baby or a blunt trauma to the head in children under two-years-old.
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What do you think?
A playpen is an enclosed square structure enclosed with some kind of material netting. Manufacturers have strict saftey restrictions and perform strict testing to ensure a child does not get injured. In my opinion, a child one year of age is not tall enough, strong enough or smart enough to know how to climb out of a playpen. A one year old cannot get their leg over the wall of a playpen. And if the baby did manage to climb out the playpen is only 5 inches off the ground. Butt first is how they usually fall out while grabbing the side. What kind of playpen are they talking about and how high off the ground was it? Or was this baby left alone in a crib with the railing left down? Babies fall all the time and don’t fracture the head and die. It is odd to me that Billy Bob Thornton’s daughter was baby sitting in the first place.